Iraq fired 62,000 accused of corruption
Iraq has fired 62,000 employees accused of corruption and is dismantling sectarianism among its police signs that it has turned a corner en route to eventual self-rule, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani wrote in a US newspaper Sunday.
Iraq has reinstated 59 election candidates among more than 500 who had been blacklisted because of their alleged links to executed dictator Saddam Hussein, an official said on Monday.