Iraq

ISTANBUL, November 9, 2011 - H.E.

SULAIMANI, Iraq, October 10, 2011 - American University Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) today announced an important step toward educating the next generation of engineers in Iraq, for Iraqis, with US$30 million in capacity building support from Afren Plc.

VIENNA, Virginia, July 30, 2011 - The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction ("SIGIR") has publicly released its conclusions from a purported "audit" that it conducted with respect to the Strategic Supply Chain Management and Distribution System Contract (the "Contract") which was awarded to ANHAM FZCO (the "Company") in September of 2007.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 18, 2011 - International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF), a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States and dedicated to providing lifesaving surgical care to children with congenital heart disease throughout the developing world, reacted today to news of the recently signed agreement between the Ibn Al-Bitar Specialized Center for Cardiac Surgery in Baghdad and the Hotel-Dieu De France Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.

DUBAI, UAE, June 9, 2011 - Hussein Al-Uzri, the founder and first Chairman and President of the Trade Bank of Iraq ("TBI") has noted certain recent allegations by Iraqi government officials concerning TBI.