BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will be flown to Germany for further treatment after suffering a stroke earlier this week, two Kurdish officials close to him said Wednesday.

Medical experts from Germany and other countries began arriving earlier in the day to assess the 79-year-old president’s condition.

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