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Azzaman in English

13 hours ago ago from The Ruthless Truth blog

Ancient Babylonian city left unattended in Iraq Iraq’s Tall Harmal, site of the old Babylonian city of Shadupum, has been left unguarded since the 2003-U.S. invasion of Iraq . more 14/12/2009 1.2 million Iraqis have fled to Syria, official says Nearly 1.2 million Iraqis have fled their country for safety in neighboring Syria, a high-ranking Syrian government official said . [...]

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The Dust Bowl of Babylon

20 hours ago ago from Gorilla's Guides

The Dust Bowl of Babylon Are crippling droughts the next great threat to Iraq? Asks Martin Chulov . BAGHDAD From his mud brick home on the edge of the Garden of Eden, Awda Khasaf has twice seen his country’s lifeblood seep away. The waters that once spread from his doorstep across a 20% slab of Iraq known as the Marshlands first disappeared in 1991, when Saddam Hussein diverted them east to punish the rebellious Marsh Arabs. The ...

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Migrants Lured to Iraq Stranded There as Funds Dry Up to Assist Them to Return Home

1 hour, 50 minutes ago ago from Gorilla's Guides

Requests for assistance to help stranded migrants lured to Iraq under false pretences or unknowingly taken to work there by unscrupulous recruitment agencies are unable to be met as funds for such assistance have dried up this year. IOM is urgently seeking US$2.5 million to help up to 700 destitute migrants, some of whom have been trafficked to Iraq for labour exploitation, to return home in the next two years. In previous years, ...

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flashpoints and other items

16 hours ago ago from Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude

that's Isaiah 's The World Today Just Nuts " The Spirit of Barack " which went up yesterday. if you don't get michelle's 'look,' be sure to read ava and c.i.'s ' TV: When the guests call the shots .' Bonnie Erbe hosts To The Contrary on pbs. and her latest column tackles barry o and his nobel prize. from her ' Norwegians Must Be Asking: Why Obama for Peace Prize? ' ( politics daily ): A little bit of background research might have alerted ...

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oak park - CHICAGO

18 hours ago ago from pug real \photos

casa e estúdio do arquitecto. 1889-1898. arq. frank lloyd wright. oak park, chicago, il.

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Harry Shearer: To Call Blair Bush's Poodle Is An Insult to Poodles

10 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Something rather interesting is going on in Great Britain these wintry days--an official inquiry, broad-ranging in its declared scope, into the way that country got involved in a little conflict in Iraq. Early testimony has dribbled out some interesting tidbits--doubts that were obliterated in the public pronouncements, intel that was ignored in the final rush to war. Now, watching that inquiry with a quizzical eye, the former Director of ...

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Sharmine Narwani: US Swagger Equals Foreign Policy Disaster

23 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday announced Iran's willingness to begin swapping in increments its enriched uranium for the higher-grade uranium offered by six world powers. But the concession is unlikely to be accepted by the United States, in what has become an old pattern: "Do it our way or else." US officials are already suggesting that Mottaki's proposal -- which would see Iran immediately part with one-third of ...

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