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		<title>Is al-Maliki ready for national test?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salam Omer, Kirkuknow Editor-in-Chief Thousands of Iraqi students are going to enter the final ministerial examinations in the upcoming weeks, but there is a probability that Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister will have his examinations somewhat earlier and will not benefit from second trial in case of failure. Settling the issues of the ‘attacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The same news for everyone. Every day. Every time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its launch two years ago in April of 2011, Kirkuk Now has established itself as a reliable source of truly independent news in Iraq as we have to date published nearly 2,400 posts. The secret to the success of Kirkuk Now is simple: presenting the news in an unbiased, non-partisan manner and make this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What annoys female members of the provincial council!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Falah Muradkhan Shakaram  Lawyer and coordinator of the German Wadi e. V Yet again, the surveys concerning female genital mutilation conducted by the Pana organization and Wadi e. V have caused nervousness, rage, and even denial. Again the manifestations of illiteracy and ignorance hits again in the state of the black gold and makes us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence against women in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Fawzia al-Attia Iraq used to be the souce of thinking and intellectuality, and the Iraqi women were known for their patience and struggle.  They had organization back in 1924, and there used to be Women&#8217;s Revival Organization.  They used to publish a magazine under the name Laila with Paulina Hassun as the editor-in-chief, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is war going to start?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As time goes by, the crisis between the Kurdistan region and Baghdad is further deepening as conditions have all ready passed the hostile speeches phase and have reached the state of military affair, leaving the question: is war going to start?  Or are all these incidents just acts of showing off opposing military forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports in Kirkuk… A step forward another backward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Operation Iraqi Freedom changed all aspects of life, Kirkuk province like the other provinces of Iraq saw major changes and development, one of the aspects was sports. The development at first involved reconstruction of infrastructure of sport.The Kurdistan Regional Government built and opened tens of swimming centres, tartan tracks, volleyball, basketball and handball courts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did Davoutoglue say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dana Nawzar Although Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davoutoglu’s visit to Kirkuk lasted only few hours, it carried various messages. His visit without informing Baghdad explains the tense relationship between Baghdad and Ankara. This is a message that says Turkey is not a regular player in Iraq, but a player that can set the rules of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi oil and the Kurds</title>
		<link>http://kirkuknow.com/english/index.php/2012/07/iraqi-oil-and-the-kurds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oil industry is one of the most vibrant sectors in the Iraq economy today. Only 96 out of 10,000 employees (1%) were Kurdish. Arabs held most of the jobs. Since Iraq was liberated by the allied forces in 2003 that has changed. Kurds have become important and active participants in the new government of Iraq. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FGM in Kirkuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Falah Muradkhan New research in Kirkuk suggests Iraq is one of the countries in the world still practising the outlawed custom of female circumcision (Female Genital Mutilation). The pratice was prohibited by law in Kurdistan last year. However the findings of the FGM research in Kirkuk, which was done by WADI and released this month (June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From bad to worse</title>
		<link>http://kirkuknow.com/english/index.php/2012/05/from-bad-to-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abdulla Sabir Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki’s meeting in Kirkuk proved that some Kurdish leaders either have forgotten household management, or have never done it. That’s why they could not manage the Kurds’ house. If Kirkuk, which they consider as their Jerusalem and heart was their house, then they would not leave it. They would stay [...]]]></description>
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