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20/06/2026

Bafel Jalal Talabani: The Mobile Film Festival Is an Opportunity to Encourage Youth

Bafel Jalal Talabani, PUK President, participated in the Kurdish Mobile Film Festival in Sulaymaniyah, expressing full support for youth and the cinema sector.

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KRG Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani in a handout image released on May 14, 2026, as he highlighted Kurdistan’s participation in the Cannes Film Festival and plans to expand international film cooperation. Photo: Handout / KRG DPM Press Office / Channel8

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FILE - Sir David Attenborough poses for a photo after being appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George following an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, June 8, 2022. A fossil of a 560-million-year-old creature, which researchers believe to be the first animal predator, has been named after the British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough. Scientists said Monday, July 25, 2022 they believe the specimen, named Auroralumina attenboroughii, is the earliest creature known to have a skeleton.(Jonathan Brady/Pool via AP)

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Dr. Rafiq Sabir Qadir, born in 1950, was a renowned Kurdish poet and scholar whose influential works in literature, linguistics, and philosophy spanned Iraq, Bulgaria, and Sweden until his passing in 2026.

Remains of Renowned Kurdish Poet and intellectual Rafiq Sabir Returned to Homeland
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DNA Tests Planned for Unearthed Erbil Archaeological Site as Monument Project Announced
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Five years after the defeat of IS, the first group of tourists visits the Hatra archaeological site in north Iraq

Iraq Unveils 2035 Tourism Strategy Aiming for 10 Million Visitors
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This photograph shows the Louvre Museum closed as museum workers meet in a general assembly to vote on unions' call for an open-ended strike against increasingly deteriorating working conditions and the declining visitor experience at the world famous museum, in Paris on December 15, 2025. (Photo by Blanca CRUZ / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

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This photograph shows the "Porte des Lions", the new public entrance to the newly renovated section of the "Aile Denon" (Denon wing) of the Louvre museum, ahead of its opening to the public, in Paris, on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Ian LANGSDON / AFP)

Leak at Louvre Damages Hundreds of Historic Books, Museum Confirms
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View of the Neo-Assyrian and Post-Assyrian period levels. Credit: Kani Shaie Archaeological Project / University of Coimbra

5,000-Year-Old Monument Unearthed in Sulaymaniyah May Redefine Ancient Urban Networks
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The window of the Louvre Museum is seen with the glasses covered after the thieves broke them to get in and steal priceless jewels. The museum will remain closed for the second day after the theft, in Paris on October 20, 2025. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Inside the Seven-Minute Heist: $102 Million Worth of Crown Jewels Stolen From the Louvre
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Shanidar Z likely stood 5 feet tall and was around 40 years old when she died. BBC Studios / Jamie Simonds

Shanidar Z Skull to Be Returned to Kurdistan After British Research Team Continues Study
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Photo: Iraqi Presidency Press Office
Culture

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid Inaugurates Arab-Kurdish Cultural Center in Baghdad

Baghdad witnessed the inauguration of the “Arab-Kurdish Cultural Center,” a new hub aimed at fostering cultural exchange, with participation from prominent officials and literary figures from Iraq and Kurdistan.

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The Ministry of Culture and Tourism handed over six cuneiform clay tablets from the 3rd Dynasty of Ur, Old Akkadian, and Old Babylonian periods to Iraqi officials on June 30, 2025, as part of efforts to protect cultural assets and combat smuggling. (IHA Photo)
Culture

Turkey Returns Ancient Mesopotamian Tablets to Iraq in Gesture of Cultural Solidarity

Turkey has returned six ancient cuneiform clay tablets to Iraq as part of ongoing efforts to protect cultural heritage and combat artifact smuggling.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Officially Revealed at Xbox Games Showcase 2025

Activision has officially unveiled Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 during the Xbox Games Showcase 2025. 

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Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri)
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Ancient Canals in Southern Iraq Linked to Centuries of Slave Labor, New Study Finds

A sprawling network of over 7,000 ridges and canals across the Shaṭṭ al-Arab floodplain in southern Iraq has long intrigued archaeologists, believed to be remnants of a massive agricultural system built by enslaved laborers.

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Cast members arrive for the screening of the film "Dalloway" at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Antonin THUILLIER / AFP)
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Hollywood Cringes at Trump’s Tariff Plan: “He's Killing Us,” Say Cannes Producers

Donald Trump’s proposal to slap 100-percent tariffs on films produced abroad is stirring deep concern at the Cannes Film Festival — even among industry figures who once backed him.

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KRG Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani participated in the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2025. Photo: Qubad Talabani via social media
Culture

Talabani Announces Kurdistan Film Commission–Slemani at Cannes, Aiming to Put Region on World Cinema Map

KRG Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani stated on Thursday that he has long worked with professionals to establish a cinema center and participated in the 78th Cannes Film Festival to announce plans for the Kurdistan Film Commission–Sulaymaniyah.

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