BAGHDAD — The rubble-filled streets of the southwestern Baghdad neighbourhood of Bayaa were filled with young men waving Shiite flags and dancing to the pulsating beat of a popular song.

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Kuwait opposition MPs filed a request on Sunday to grill Oil Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al Sabah over controversial press statements and allegations of financial and administrative violations.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) — Two senior European officials were on their way to Libya on Sunday to try to solve the case of six foreign medics sentenced to death for deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV, the children’s families said.