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Iraq oil revenues fall short of budget projections: PM

Iraq’s oil revenues are even lower than projected in the country’s already austere 2015 budget, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday, spelling more financial trouble for cash-strapped Baghdad. “So far, our oil revenues are below what was passed in the budget,” Abadi said in televised remarks, without providing exact figures on the shortfall. Iraq’s parliament approved a budget of 119.5 trillion Iraqi dinars in January (about $99.6 billion at the

Iraq oil revenues fall short of budget projections: PM

Iraq’s oil revenues are even lower than projected in the country’s already austere 2015 budget, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday, spelling more financial trouble for cash-strapped Baghdad. “So far, our oil revenues are below what was passed in the budget,” Abadi said in televised remarks, without providing exact figures on the shortfall. Iraq’s parliament approved a budget of 119.5 trillion Iraqi dinars in January (about $99.6 billion at the

Suspect likely killed after gun and bomb attack at Dallas police headquarters

A man suspected of attacking setting off bombs outside the Dallas Police headquarters and spraying the building with gunfire in the early hours of Saturday was shot and possibly killed by snipers a few hours later, police said. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said police snipers shot the suspect through the windshield of a van in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant about 10 miles (16 km) south