Dozens of Arabs and Turkmen demonstrated in front of the Kirkuk Governorate building, rejecting the selection of a Kurdish governor. Members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council elected yesterday evening, Ribwar Taha from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, as governor of Kirkuk and Mohammed Al-Hafez as head of the provincial council, in a meeting held at the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad in the absence of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Turkmen Front and the Arab Alliance. Source: National Iraqi News Agency
Jordan Advances Efforts to Improve Rankings in Global Growth, Human Development Indices
August 13, 2026
Amman: The Executive Program of the Economic Modernization Vision has included a number of measures aimed at improving Jordan’s rankings in international indices.
According to Jordan News Agency, the report covering the first half of this year indic…