PARIS — French cement maker Holcim’s Lafarge unit went on trial Tuesday, facing charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions to keep a plant operating in northern Syria... Read more »
iren stock Microsoft commits $7.9B to UAE tech hub; $9.7B IREN deal aims to ease AI computing crunch
IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) (“IREN”) announced a significant multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft on Monday. The agreement, valued at approximately $9.7 billion over a five-year term, involves IREN providing Microsoft... Read more »
2025-11-04T05:51:50+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary elections on November 11, 2025, are shaping up as a battlefield of a different kind, where former military officers... Read more »
The Chinese Embassy in Israel on Monday rejected allegations that Chinese-made electric vehicles could be used for espionage, after Israel Hayom reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had ordered the removal... Read more »
DETROIT, Michigan (AP) — Two men were charged with terrorism-related crimes in the Detroit area after federal authorities made arrests and seized a cache of weapons last week in a storage unit... Read more »
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, Chief Strategist of AFC Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. “A Ho-hum Month, Ahead... Read more »
LONDON (AP) — UK police charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder on Monday over a mass stabbing attack on a train that wounded 11 people, and said he also tried to... Read more »
2025-11-03T11:08:52+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for November 2025, will be held under the amended Election Law No. 9 of 2020, which... Read more »
About 200,000 Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) protested in Jerusalem against plans to require some Haredi young men to draft into the military on Thursday. The protest took place as the Knesset prepared to... Read more »
Shafaq News With less than two weeks before Iraq’s parliamentary elections on 11 November 2025, the Iraqi Cabinet ignited a fierce debate by announcing 22 wide-ranging economic and service measures — most... Read more »