Total, CEO acquitted in Iraq oil-for-food scandalFrench oil giant Total and its chief executive were acquitted on Monday in the UN oil-for-food scandal under Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq. The Paris criminal court also cleared 17 other defendants and Swis More… |
US wants UN to lift ban on Iraq N-importsThe United States hopes the UN Security Council will lift restrictions on the import of nuclear technology to Iraq, even though Baghdad has not ratified a UN agreement on tough atomic inspections. At a meeting on Wednesd More… |
Total under probe over Iraq oil-for-foodTotal has been placed under formal investigation in an eight-year-old case over suspected bribery relating to the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme during Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, it said. A French crimin More… |