Vulnerable groups: It is extremely difficult for the population to get health care provisions in an environment that is short on supplies and limited when it comes to facilities because of buildings that are too old. The problem is even more acute for vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant ...
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BAGHDAD, 26 February 2008 (IRIN) - With scores of doctors killed over the past few years, an exodus of medical personnel, poor medical infrastructure and shortages of medicines, Iraq's health sector is under great pressure, a senior Health Ministry official said on 26 February. "We are experiencing a big ...
Radioactive pollution is a prime factor in the increase in cancer cases in Basra. The problem started in 1991 when coalition forces used depleted uranium ammunitions to attack Iraqi armed forces in their Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait. According to our research, the majority of cancer ...
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اثار قرار الزعيم الشيعي مقتدى الصدر بتمديد تجميد "جيش المهدي" ستة أشهر أخرى، تفاعلا واسعا في الساحة السياسية، لم يقتصر على مكونات العملية السياسية المرحبة بالقرار، بل تعدى ذلك لردود فعل متباينة داخل عناصر التيار الصدري وجيش المهدي بين ضرورة الالتزام بالاوامر ومخاوف من الاستهداف والمضايقات.ففي وقت كشف فيه ...
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أتفق اختصاصيون في ندوة موسعة حول مرض السرطان في المنطقة الجنوبية أقامتها صحة البصرة، الاثنين، بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للسرطان، إلى أن التلوث الإشعاعي الذي تعرضت له المنطقة الجنوبية جراء الحروب الاخيرة هو العامل الأهم في ارتفاع نسبة الإصابة بالسرطان في المنطقة الجنوبية والبصرة على وجه الخصوص.قال مدير شعبة التوعية ...
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The original article in Zaman is here: Turkey's ongoing operation against bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is unlikely to end unless the army destroys the terrorist group's command center and bases in the Kandil Mountains, located on the Iran-Iraq border, experts say. Read in full: Operation ...
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Securing this library represents an important step forward in academic achievement for SMU and for our service to Dallas and the nation. Source: Bush Presidential Library Update Homepage By giving a veneer of academic respectability to torture, rape, looting, hostage taking, bribery, corruption, child killing, using chemical ...
I never met Lurch and knew only his first name. But he and I developed a friendship that I valued and will miss. One of the things we do here on "Guides" is a dialogues programme. My father agreed strongly with markfromireland the follower of the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) that ...
Baghdad, Feb. 24, (VOI) – After only three weeks of her dire marriage, Maysaa, a college graduate, felt as though she did not know the callous man who became her husband at all. Her family coerced her to accept the despondent marriage from a man that never respected her ...
If the government responses to our conditions which are a general amnesty, amendments to the accountability and justice law and an expansion of the power of the deputy prime ministers, then we will return to the government. Reconciliation Back on Iraqi Agenda? By Zainab Naji in Baghdad ...
