News Summary April 4, 2010

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Following is a summary of news reports posted until 10:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Sunday – April 4:

* Politics:

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi armed forces, on Sunday presided over a meeting of the national security council to discuss developments in Iraq, namely the blasts that ripped through

Baghdad today.

* Security:

ANBAR - Policemen found the body of a fellow security man in a plantation area in northern Ramadi city on Sunday, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Three members of the Egyptian diplomatic mission were slightly wounded in a blast that targeted the consulate building in Baghdad, said the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in a press release on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit expressed in a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari condemnation of the Baghdad blasts that targeted some diplomatic missions including that of Egypt.

* Economy:

BASRA - Basra’s Governor Shaltagh Abboud al-Mayyah said on Sunday that he discussed with the Dutch company IPS means of launching investment ventures in the southern Iraq city.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) index dropped slightly after blasts that recently rocked the capital Baghdad by 0.3% to close at 91.3 points as rates of shares of 16 firms out of a total 28 that traded in Sunday’s session went down.

* Features:

KIRKUK - The people of Kirkuk are looking forward to improved conditions through a new parliament and hope that their candidates will honor their campaign pledges and mottos.

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