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Fuel crisis in Iraq: bottlenecks in supplies and repercussions on daily life

The crisis of gasoline availability suddenly worsened at gas stations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other cities, as queues of cars lined up for hours in front of stations that were often empty. Some of them are (improved and super) gasoline, with a scarcity of quantities of low-quality regular gasoline, which sparked the anger of the Iraqi street.. Report by France 24 correspondent in Baghdad, Ibrahim Saleh.

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International

Limiting weapons to the Iraqi state... Shiite factions hand over their weapons to Baghdad

In an official ceremony in the city of Samarra in Salah al-Din Governorate, Iraq, the Shiite armed faction of the Saraya al-Salam Brigades, affiliated with the influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, handed over its weapons and its main headquarters. The intention of the Iraqi armed forces to confine weapons to the Iraqi state...a step that reflects Washington's pressure on Baghdad in order to control weapons in the hands of factions close to Tehran.

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