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Netflix's Mismatched, Sumeet Vyas' Dark7White, Genelia D’Souza's It's My Life: Trailers This Week
Fp Staff •It's My Life, a remake of the Telugu film Bommarillu which was shot back in 2007, has skipped theatrical and digital release and will premiere on 29 November on Zee Cinema.
Iraq's 'stadium of horrors' in ruins, but the game goes on for Mosul Sports Club
•The bullet-riddled 20,000-seater stadium, home to Mosul Sports Cub, was not spared, caught up in the deadly battles for control.
Literature returns to Mosul two years after Islamic State's occupation, amid efforts to rebuild spirit of the city
Rfi •Literature and poetry are regaining ground in the Iraqi city of Mosul two years after its brutal occupation by the Islamic State armed group that branded artists as criminals.
Over a year after Islamic State’s defeat in Iraq, militants return to strongholds of former ‘caliphate’ for revenge
•A year and a half after the Islamic State group was declared defeated in Iraq, the militants still evoke fear in the lands of their former so-called caliphate across northern Iraq
55 dead after ferry sinks in Tigris River near Iraq's Mosul; incident occurred during Kurdish new year celebrations
•Colonel Hussam Khalil, head of the civil defense in the northern Nineveh province, said the accident occurred as scores of people were out in a tourist area celebrating Nowruz, which marks the Kurdish new year and the arrival of spring.
Turkey to re-open consulate in Iraq's Mosul four years after freeing city from Islamic State's clutches
•Turkey has planned to reopen a consulate in Mosul four years after ridding the city of Islamic State jihadists
Iraq holds first polls since victory over Islamic State, analysts say incumbent Haider al-Abadi marginally ahead
Fp Staff •Iraqis voted in the first election since defeating Islamic State, but few people expect its new leaders to stabilise a country beset by conflicts, economic hardship and corruption since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003
More than 300 sentenced to death in Iraq for having links to Islamic State; over 150 get life term
•Iraq declared victory in December against Islamic State — also known as ISIS — which at one point controlled a third of the country.
Iraq court sentences 29-year-old French woman to life in prison over links with Islamic State
•Iraq sentenced a French woman to life in prison for belonging to the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of court rulings since the country's defeat of Islamic State.
Narendra Modi announces ex-gratia compensation of Rs 10 lakh for kin of those killed in Iraq
•Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh each to the next of the kin of 39 Indians who were killed in Iraq, official sources said.