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In Iraq, shisha smoking on a smuggling boat
Basra :: Iraq | almost 2 years ago
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Ferries used to smuggle crude, weapons and people in the mayhem that followed the 2003 overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein have been transformed into floating cafes as the shore of the Shatt al-Arab waterway reclaims its role as a nightlife hotspot.
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Climate change worsens plight of Iraqi farmers
Baghdad :: Iraq | over 2 years ago
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Frequent dust storms and scarce rains are stifling Iraq's efforts to revive a farming sector hit by decades of war, sanctions and isolation. Wheat and rice production has suffered from a severe drought in the past two years, due in part to rising
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Television review: 'Braving Iraq'
Baghdad :: Iraq | over 2 years ago
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The chief villain is Saddam Hussein , the late Iraqi dictator, who turned to desert 90% of one of the world's great wetlands, the 6,000-square-mile Mesopotamian Marshes . The representative hero is Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi native who left for the
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A new effort to preserve Iraq's rich biodiversity, from mountains to marshes
Baghdad :: Iraq | over 2 years ago
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Iraq is no exception but before anything can be done, it needs Iraqis who understand the problems...Permagrone, Iraq On this mountainside in Iraqi Kurd-istan, botanists are gathering hundreds of plant samples in an effort to protect their country's
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Focus: Water in the Arab world
Mosul :: Iraq | almost 3 years ago
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Since around the 1960s the equilibrium between water resources and population distribution in the world fell out of kilter, giving rise to numerous conflicts over water, especially in Africa, Asia and Europe. To a considerable extent, the growing
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Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'
Baghdad :: Iraq | almost 3 years ago
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But nearly two decades later the area is buzzing and twittering with life again after local people and a new breed of Iraqi conservationists have restored much of what was once the world's third largest wetland to some of its former glory. The story
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IRAQ: Killing for water
Baghdad :: Iraq | almost 3 years ago
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In the early hours of 18 June, gunmen broke into Faisal Hassan's west Baghdad home killing him, his wife and their two young children...The department he worked for supervised government water distribution to farmland in and around Abu Ghraib. His
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Dust cloud over middle East
A plume of dust hundreds of kilometers long covered Iraq on June 7, 2010. The light-colored dust follows a course similar to that of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers across Syria and southeast through Iraq to the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. In
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Iran seizes Iraqi boats, crew
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 years ago
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Iranian border guards stopped the Iraqi vessels, which were disguised as fishing boats, and transferred them to an Iranian coastal pier, Fars News Agency reports. Twelve vessel crews have been escorted to an Iranian border unit base for questioning,
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Turkey to build disputed dam despite Euro snub
Hasankeyf :: Turkey | 3 years ago
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Turkey has secured the support of a local bank to build a dam on a major historic site on the Tigris River, overriding harsh opposition at home and snubs by European lenders. The head of Turkey’s Akbank said last week that the company would help
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