Swimming pool an oasis for grieving Iraqis
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In a city where nothing is normal, a Baghdad swimming pool provides an escape to safety and ordinary life for children and their families. They splash, giggle and laugh. They also cry. In many ways, this is Iraq's grieving oasis. "I will not desert Iraq," one woman told CNN.
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As the U.S. lets in more Iraqi refugees, the widow of a murdered TIME staffer and their young son struggle to cope with their new lives in Arizona
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Indianapolis, Oct. 12 - The pool where swimmers set four world records, where America&#39;s most honored Olympic swimmer Jenny Thompson said goodbye, is all gone.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 37 people, most of them children, have been killed by multiple explosions that rocked a western Baghdad neighborhood celebrating the opening of a new sewage system.
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Iraqi civil defense workers carry a body of one of the victims of a deadly suicide bombing in Kirkuk, Sept. 18. (Xinhua/AFP Photo).
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. troops hoping to directly confront al Qaeda militants in a major offensive in the Iraqi city of Baquba instead found themselves "swimming through a minefield", a senior officer said on Sunday.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece -- For the 18 Iraq soccer players and to the thousands of Iraqi exiles who swarmed to this northern Greek city last night to watch them play in the Olympic semifinals, last night's match was about one thing: Iraqi pride. &quot;We want to make the people back home happy, and please them, because the Americans have destroyed them,&quot; ...
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In this image taken from pool video provided to the Associated Press by NBC News, a US marine is seen, left, raising his rifle in the direction of Iraqi prisoners lying on the floor of a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq Saturday Nov. 13, 2004.
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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is supposed to be a time of spiritual joy, but the most that Iraqis can pray for this time is that it brings a moment of peace.
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They're scenes all too familiar in Iraq: shattered buildings, mangled cars, pools of blood. The carnage takes its toll on the landscape &#151; and those responsible for cleaning up the mess.
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A stream of red tracer bullets cut through the night sky amid a hail of celebratory gunfire as Iraqis, exhausted from war and unending violence, celebrated their national soccer team's startling 1-0 victory over Australia in the Olympic quarterfinal.
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In this image taken from pool video provided to the Associated Press by NBC News, a US marine is seen, left, raising his rifle in the direction of two wounded Iraqi men lying on the floor of a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq Saturday Nov. 13, 2004.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- Strings of bright laundry hang among the gravestones and people who are brave enough sleep among the dead, taking refuge on the high ground of the Karet Cemetery from the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in decades.
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HABBANIYAH, Iraq  - It still looks like an oasis in the desert, but Baghdad's smart set does not drive out to play beside the pristine lake at Habbaniyah any more.
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A beach program for Australiaâs Muslims is challenging the perception of the blond, blue-eyed and sun-bronzed lifeguard.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians streamed into  the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday in an  outpouring of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the  enduring symbol of their nationalist cause.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 -- Two rows of glowing orbs cast a warm light on the marble fountain in the outdoor garden. Columns of ice-cream cones rise neatly behind the new plate-glass windows. A row of red letters -- "Hassan" -- twinkles with white lights and the promise that this Baghdad restaurant's ch...