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Not just the fortunes of one war-torn country are at stake. Researchers believe that Iraq's untapped oil reserves total at least 115 billion barrels - the third largest in the world. When fully developed, Iraq's oil industry could significantly boost global crude supplies and even bring down oil...
The catalyst for the flurry of agreements appears to be the BP-CNPC deal, Iraq's first international oil contract in nearly four decades. The British and Chinese companies won the right to drill for 20 years in what is believed to be one of the world's four largest...
But being there won't be easy, either, due to daunting technical and other challenges. Iraq's oil industry has limped along for years on creaking old equipment, patchwork pipeline networks and decayed, rusted port facilities; Saddam-era sanctions largely prevented the industry from upgrading to state-of-the-art...
Two doors down from former Prime Minister Taro Aso's office in the House of Representatives Building No. 1 in Tokyo, freshman Japanese lawmaker Eriko Fukuda, her hair characteristically tucked behind her right ear, sighs that her male secretaries don't know how to care for flowers. Fukuda is settling...
The Fallen Wall I read your article asking "Why the Wall Came Down" [Nov. 9]. What a swizz, claiming Reagan did it! Surely it was the epochal election of a Polish Pope, the most charismatic in centuries, and his triumphant return to Poland, that widened earlier cracks in the wall...