Shame of Imported Labor in Kurdish North of Iraq
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Foreign workers in Iraqâs Kurdish north say they have been deceived by the agents who arranged their journeys.
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Deep in the mountains of northern Iraq, a cluster of mud huts and the chatter of machine gun fire reveal another piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Kurdistan.
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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AD DEIRAT, West Bank - As the truck unloads, the children pounce on the trash like flies. Some swing aloft on the hydraulic pistons that open the back, then drop onto the mound to grab a piece of metal, a crushed can, a soda bottle, or a smelly T-shirt.
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MANILA : The Philippines will lose out on some 3,000 jobs in Iraq unless it lifts a ban on its nationals working there, a recruitment agency said amid protests by Filipinos desperate to work in the troubled country.
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By Omar Sinan, Associated Press  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Kurds bought sheep to slaughter in celebration and stockpiled generator fuel to keep televisions working for today's verdict against Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as Chemical Ali, and others accused in a 1980s crackdown against them.
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HENDALA, Sri Lanka -- Day after day, locked in a cement room somewhere in Iraq, the hooded men beat him. They told him he would be beheaded. ''Ameriqi!&quot; they shouted, even though he comes from this poor Sri Lankan fishing village.
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BAGHDAD, IraqâA Turkish contractor and an Iraqi Kurdish translator were beheaded on a video posted on the Internet yesterday, and a statement said they had been taken captive by the Ansar al-Sunna Army - the same group that killed 12 Nepalese hostages
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Kurds are on the move again in northern Iraq &#151; but this time they're not fleeing.
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hassan Mohammed Amin brought his seven children to a 200-square-yard patch of mud and set up home on the edge of this city in August as part of an ambitious attempt to reverse Saddam Hussein's ethnic cleansing.
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For anyone living in Damascus these days, the fact that some Iraqi refugees are selling sex or working in sex clubs is difficult to ignore.
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BAGHDAD -- From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides yesterday, as saboteurs bombed a vital bridge link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops across the border massed for a possible strike.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Health officials in northern Iraq are treating nearly 4,000 suspected cases of cholera and eight people have died so far, the health minister for Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday.
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Some 2 million Iraqis have fled to neighboring countries in the past three years and up to 3,000 more go abroad every day, according to the U.N. refugee agency. But Umm Ali and her husband, Hussein Jawad, are among nearly 85,000 Iraqi Arabs who have sought refuge in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
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A look at the difficulties some Iraqis can face in trying to escpape their violent homeland.
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Business & money: Workers in poor countries exploited, say investors.
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of