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Zoom Media Corporation is a news outlet in Iraq, owned by Al-Ma'adel Al-Dhahabi company. It has offices in capital Baghdad and Sulaimani.
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The Iraqi Cabinet’s session, chaired by PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, ended without resolving the salary crisis affecting over 1.2 million civil servants in the Kurdistan Region awaiting May and June payments. However, a five-minister committee—including Finance, Planning, Justice, Health, and Higher Education—was formed to draft a new oil and salary agreement based on proposals from Baghdad and Erbil, to be submitted for final approval, reports Zoom News' Akam Fahmi.
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A teacher on hunger strike outside the UN office in Sulaimani suffered a worsening health condition during a press conference, as protesters continue demanding overdue salaries and the implementation of a court ruling to digitalize payments through Iraqi state-owned banks amid a decade-long financial crisis.
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Teachers in Sulaimani have set up a protest tent outside the UN office, demanding overdue salaries, including December’s. Over 100 teachers plan a hunger strike, calling for timely payments, ranking promotions, and digitalization of monthly payments through Iraqi state-owned banks. Reporting by Mohammed Dilshad/ Zoom News
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#BREAKING: The Kurdistan Region’s Council of Ministers affirms it has fulfilled all obligations and shown full flexibility in resuming oil exports through Iraq’s SOMO and transferring revenues to the Federal Ministry of Finance, stressing that the KRG and oil companies are ready to cooperate with Baghdad to resume exports and end all justification for withholding civil servant salaries — statement. 🎥: KRG
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Video submitted by a protesting teacher shows teachers blocking a main road in Sulaimani early Monday, preventing illegal oil tankers from transporting Kurdistan Region’s oil to Iran as they demand timely salary payments and disrupt what they call the country's "looted revenues."
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Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Shakhawan Abdullah said no issues have emerged from the recent Baghdad-Erbil agreement, confirming that the KRG has officially notified Baghdad of its readiness to hand over its oil, while noting US pressure to expedite exports and disburse overdue June and July salaries for Kurdistan Region civil servants.
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Protesting teachers in the Kurdistan Region are intensifying their blockade of oil tankers transporting illegal oil to Iran, maintaining their presence even through the night in freezing temperatures by setting up tents along a key road in Sulaimani that links the province to the border crossing. 🎥: Ako Ameen/ Zoom News
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Protesting teachers and civil servants, joined by hundreds from various cities in the Kurdistan Region, have staged a major demonstration outside the UN office in Sulaimani to support their colleagues on an 11-day hunger strike. They are demanding timely salary payments and the digitalization of their wages through Iraqi state-owned banks, seeking to end a decade-long financial crisis.
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#LATEST: High-level delegations from Iraq’s Oil and Finance Ministries are in Erbil to negotiate a resolution to the ongoing financial disputes with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), with talks moving positively toward resuming oil exports and releasing delayed salary payments for KRG civil servants, five KRG sources told Zoom News. 🎥: Zoom News/ archive
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#BREAKING: At least 50 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a fire that broke out early Thursday at a shopping mall in the city of Kut, Iraq’s Wasit province, Governor Mohammed Jameel al-Miyahi announced. The blaze has since been brought under control. 🎥: Social media
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#BREAKING: Illegal oil smuggling from the Kurdistan Region to Iran continues despite federal government warnings that such exports could jeopardize the recent Baghdad-Erbil agreement, as new footage from Sunday shows hundreds of oil tankers lined up at the Bashmakh border crossing in Sulaimani province. 🎥: Zhyar Kameel/ Zoom News
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#EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of oil tankers smuggling the Kurdistan Region’s oil to Iran have been stranded on the Sulaimani-Arbat road, blocked by protesting teachers demanding long-overdue salaries and disrupting a smuggling operation they say benefits only certain officials. 🎥: Zoom News
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