BAGHDAD – An Iraqi minister warned government workers Friday against using their influence to escape the country's widespread power cuts and urged people to cut down on air conditioning as temperatures soared.Many Iraqis get fewer than six hours of electricity each day, despite billions of dollars spent trying to fix the nation's power grid since the 2003 U.S -led invasion.The outages led t
BAGHDAD Frustrations run high in the summer when Iraqis in the capital struggle with less than six hours of electricity a day and water shortages as temperatures sometimes rise above 120 degrees.On Saturday, protesters in the southern port city of Basra threw bricks and stones and had tried to rush the provincial government building.The violence prompted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to send a d