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A group of Russians picking mushrooms discovered 248 human foetuses in four open plastic barrels in a forest ravine. Medical experts and investigators are now trying to figure out who dumped the bodies, aged between 12 and 16 weeks, in the isolated ditch in the Ural Mountains. Police described...

BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq's cabinet approved on Tuesday four deals with foreign energy firms to dramatically ramp up the country's oil output, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. The agreements include one with Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and Malaysia's Petronas for the enormous Majnoon field in...

BAGHDAD (AFP) – Angolan energy firm Sonangol initialled two deals with Iraq on Wednesday to develop oil fields in the north of the country, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said. The two agreements completed the initialling of seven deals reached between Baghdad and foreign energy firms...