The office of Iraq's ailing president said he is making progress in a German hospital recovering from a stroke last month, according to AP. A brief statement Saturday described the health situation of Jalal Talabani as "reassuring" and said his medical team has started rehabilitation. It did not give more details on his condition. Talabani, a 79-year-old senior Kurdish leader, was flown to Germany for treatment more than two weeks ago. The statement was responding to a late Friday report in the French newspaper Le Figaro that described the president as "clinically dead." Talabani's office described the report as "totally baseless."
