A hand washing festival was inaugurated by Local Govt and Cooperative Ministry at Osmani Memorial Auditorium marking the Hand Washing Day on Monday.

Tillerson says: Kurdish independence referendum is illegitimate

The Washington Post, Baghdad :The United States on Friday declared illegitimate Monday’s Kurdish referendum on independence, as the Iraqi government imposed a ban on international flights to airports operated by the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraqi troops prepared to seize the semiautonomous region’s border controls.“The United States does not recognize the unilateral referendum,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in Washington’s first substantive statement on the vote, in which nearly 93 percent of voters in the Kurdistan region approved declaring...

1 Oct 2017, 12:00 am