Iraq

World

IRAQ

Iraq says prime minister survives assassination attempt unharmed

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/7/21

So far, there has been no claim of responsibility

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Photo: Pixabay.

Finland

FRAUD

European Court annulled sanction to Finland for human rights violation

The Nomad Today 7/14/21

The Court now says that the plaintiff lied and knowingly submitted false documentation claiming that her father had been murdered in Baghdad after being returned to Iraq

25 April 2021, Iraq, Baghdad: Mourners carry the coffin of Ali Khodeir Ibrahim, one of the COVID-19 patients who were killed in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, during his funeral in Baghdad. According to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, 82 people died and some 110 others were injured in the early Sunday blaze at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital that looks after Covid-19 patients in south-eastern Baghdad. Photo: Ameer Al Mohammedaw/dpa

World

INVESTIGATION

82 dead after blaze at Baghdad hospital for Covid-19 patients

The Nomad Today/dpa 4/26/21

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi ordered the detention of the hospital director as well as its security and maintenance officials, pending investigations.

The new Finnish ambassador to Iraq, Matti Lassila. Photo: Petri Krook/Finnish government.

Finland

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

New Finnish ambassador to Iraq

The Nomad Today 4/9/21

Matti Lassila joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1987.

Finland

Finland opened honorary consulate in Mosul, Iraq

The Nomad Today 3/22/21

"Finland wants to demonstrate its support for the reconstruction of Iraq," the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs said in a press release.

Finland

MIGRI: 'ALMOST HISTORICAL EVENT'

Iraqis overtake Russians as top applicants for Finnish citizenship

The Nomad Today 11/16/20

Many asylum seekers who arrived in Finland in autumn 2015 and received international protection are now applying for citizenship, according to Migri.

19 August 2020, Berlin: A general view of the Berlin motorway A100 at the height of the exit Alboinstrasse where police work after a car carrying an alleged ammunition box made an accident, six people were injured, three of them seriously. Photo: Tino Schöning/dpa.

World

Prosecutors: Berlin road attack driven by 'bizarre, religious mania'

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/20/20

The suspect is a 30-year-old Iraqi man who was living in Germany pending deportation after being refused asylum.

19 August 2020, Berlin: A forensic officer works on the Berlin A100 urban motorway after a car carrying an alleged ammunition box made an accident at the Alboinstrasse exit. Photo: Paul Zinken/dpa.

World

UPDATE

Suspected Islamist held after series of crashes on Berlin motorway

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/19/20

Prior to the attack, the Iraqi suspect posted photos of the car on his Facebook page accompanied by religious statements written in Arabic in which he uses the term "martyr." Prosecutors also…

World

Sweden hands life sentence to man who decapitated his girlfriend

The Nomad Today 7/27/20

The court also unanimously ruled that he had violated the corpse of the 17-year-old girl.

Man iraq arabic by David Mark from Pixabay

Coronavirus

UNDP

Finland commits €2 million to fight coronavirus in Iraq

The Nomad Today 7/1/20

Funding will be used to procure personal protective equipment for healthcare workers, to increase the number of isolation wards for those who are ill, and to strengthen laboratories’ testing capacity.

Finland

Finland’s embassy in Baghdad resumes its operations

The Nomad Today 6/11/20

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs recommends to avoid all travel to Iraq.

Coronavirus

Islamic State calls Covid-19 God's punishment for foes

The Nomad Today 5/29/20

"We are pleased for this punishment of God for you," an IS militant identified as spokesman Abu Hamzah al-Quraishi said on a radio broadcast.

World

Police suspect Finnish court was also misled by Iraqi asylum seeker

The Nomad Today 5/25/20

Forged documents were also sent to the Helsinki Administrative Court, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.

Entrepreneurs in Finland

Iraqi brothers’ mobile barber very popular in corona days

The Nomad Today 5/11/20

Different from the regular barbers there is only one customer in the barber mobile.

Russian-girl-woman-stairs-staircase-by-Khusen-Rustamov-Pixabay

Finland

The average recipient of Finnish citizenship: female, 29, Russian

The Nomad Today 5/7/20

Finland granted citizenship to 9,649 people with foreign background in 2019.

Iraqi-woman-cook-by-Reuters-Thaier-Al-Sudani

Coronavirus

Pandemic pushes some Iraqis, broken by conflict, into poverty

The Nomad Today 5/6/20

Iraq has so far avoided a catastrophic spread of the new coronavirus, but as in many countries, the measures required, including a nationwide curfew in place since March, have hit vulnerable…

Finland

Police arrest Iraqi woman suspected of fraud and forgery

The Nomad Today 4/24/20

The arrest is related to the investigation of the case in which the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Finland. The plaintiff said her father was sent back to Iraq and killed, but the…

Finland

Police suspect the human rights violation for which Finland was sanctioned is a hoax

The Nomad Today 4/23/20

Investigators think the documents that led to the Court's decision were forged and the plaintiff's father would be still alive . The leader of the True Finns, Jussi Halla-Aho, blamed the…

Finland

Decreasing number of asylum seekers in 2019

The Nomad Today 1/20/20

Most of the new asylum seekers last year arrived from Turkey and Russia. Most Turks said they are members of the Gülen movement, considered as a terrorist organization by the Ankara…