BAGHDAD, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Video footage broadcast by Iraq's state television on Monday showed soldiers raising the national flag atop a low-rise building said to be the main government complex in the western city of Ramadi.
In December, leaders from across the globe met at the Conference of Parties 21, coming to agreement that the world needs to collectively limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius – an ambitious objective, but not an impossible one.
MOSCOW, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Trading house Gunvor has agreed to sell its last asset in Russia, a 50 percent stake in the Novorossiisk fuel oil terminal to a subsidiary of Kremlin-controlled Transneft, an industry source told Reuters on Monday.
RIYADH, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, its finances hit by low oil prices, announced plans to shrink a record state budget deficit with spending cuts and a drive to raise revenues from sources other than oil.
BAGHDAD, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Iraq's counter-terrorism forces have raised the Iraqi flag above the central government complex in the western city of Ramadi, a military spokesman said on Monday, a day after the army declared victory over Islamic State fighters there.
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