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Joe Biden · United StatesPresident Joe Biden was spotted with a crib sheet with scripted comments to the press during an Oval Office sitdown with the prime minister of Iraq, Mohammed Shia’a Al-Sudani, on Monday, April 15. Biden referred to the script to make his first public statement since Iran’s attack on Israel. The script included an all-caps stage direction on when he would need to pause in his comments so an interpreter could translate.See the Story
Joe Biden spotted using cheat sheet with scripted comments during meeting with Iraqi PM
83% Right coverage: 6 sources
Joe Biden · United StatesPresident Joe Biden is set to host Iraq’s leader this week for talks that come as tensions across the Middle East have soared over the war in Gaza and Iran’s attack on Israel in retaliation for an Israeli military strike against an Iranian facility in Syria. See the Story
Biden to host Iraqi leader as Mideast tensions soar, raising more questions about US troop presence
77% Center coverage: 18 sources
Military · JordanJordan’s air force intercepted and shot down dozens of Iranian drones that violated its airspace and were heading to Israel, two regional security sources said. They said the army was also in a state of high alert and radar systems were monitoring any drone activity coming from the direction of Iraq and Syria.See the Story
Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon reopen their airspaces.
53% Right coverage: 30 sources
Middle East Politics · BaghdadA prominent Iraqi Christian religious leader who left Baghdad amid a political dispute last year returned to the capital this week at the invitation of the country’s prime minister after nine months of self-imposed exile in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region.See the Story
Chaldean patriarch returns to Baghdad after nine months of self-imposed exile amid political dispute
62% Left coverage: 13 sources
Joe Biden · United StatesA group of Senate and House Republicans are raising deep concern over President Biden’s upcoming bilateral meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, opposing the meeting over Iranian influence in Iraq.
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GOP lawmakers slam Biden for hosting Iraqi prime minister amid Mideast conflict
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Europe · NorwayAn Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden told a newspaper on Wednesday that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by authorities in Stockholm.See the Story
Quran-burning Iraqi man who faces an expulsion order from Sweden plans to seek asylum in Norway
37% Center coverage: 11 sources
Joe Biden · United StatesPresident Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month, a visit that comes as the countries hold formal talks about winding down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition that was formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq.
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Biden to host Iraqi leader with talks underway on winding down coalition against the Islamic State
39% Right coverage: 13 sources
Europe · GermanyA German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun.See the Story
German woman loses appeal of 14-year sentence for letting Yazidi slave girl die in Iraq
45% Center coverage: 9 sources
