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Iraqi president gives MPs 3 days to name new PM amid protests President Barham Saleh threatened on Wednesday to unilaterally name a successor to Iraq’s premier, who resigned in December, if parliament did not nominate a candidate within three days. “If the concerned blocs are unable to resolve the nomination issue by no later than Saturday, February 1… I see an obligation to exercise my constitutional powers by tasking whomever I find most acceptable to parliament and the people,” Saleh wrote in a letter, according to AFP. PM Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in December after two months of deadly protests against his government, but he has stayed on in a caretaker role, as deeply divided political parties have failed to agree on a replacement. In late December, Saleh formally decline...

RT correspondent seriously injured by blast while filming jihadists’ ammo depot in Syria Wafa Shabrouney, a correspondent of RT Arabic, has been injured while on assignment in northwestern Syria. A shell left behind by militant fighters exploded while she and her crew were nearby. The incident happened in Maarat al-Numan, a Syrian city located some 33km south of Idlib, the capital of the last major stronghold of jihadist forces in northwestern Syria. Shabrouney and her crew were covering the aftermath of the takeover of the city by Damascus in the last several days. //www.youtube.com/embed/l4rBrfY_GSA According to her cameraman, they went to an ammo depot left behind by retreating militants. A shell accid...