#Iraq halts flights to Kurdish cities
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Authorities in Baghdad have halted cargo flights to the Kurdish cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniya, the top aviation official said on Thursday, in an escalating row between the central government and Kurdish leaders. “At present we stopped the shipment of cargo to both Erbil and Sulaimaniya until further notice,” the head of Iraq’s civil aviation authority Nasser Bandar told Reuters. He said passenger flights were unaffected. (Reuters)