Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi has abolished four ministries and cut his cabinet to 22 from 33 in a push to cut wasteful government spending as lower oil prices choke off revenue. Three deputy prime minister positions and four ministries, including those overseeing human rights and women’s affairs, were scrapped, according to a decree posted Sunday on Al-Abadi’s website. The responsibilities of eight other ministries will be merged into four. Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets in recent weeks to protest corruption in OPEC’s second-biggest oil producer. With the plunge in crude and the battle against Islamic State militants depleting state coffers, bribery and abuse of power are compounding the nation’s economic woes. Iraq is among the world’s most corrupt nations, according to an index compiled by Transparency International. Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, urged the prime minister on Aug. 7 to tackle the problem […]