Many Iraqi Children Miss School Over Violence Worry
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Millions of Iraqi children were due to  start the new school year Saturday, but many stayed at home,  their parents too scared to let them venture out amid Iraq's  spiraling violence.
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Children returned to school in this rural Indonesian district Monday, some in fresh uniforms, others raggedy with bare, muddy feet. Among them was 15-year-old Syarita, who wants to be a doctor and thinks school will help her forget her terrifying run to the top of a hill while five family members died in the relentless waves below.
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A group of Iraqi children had just run across to US troops for sweets at a neighbourhood celebration in Baghdad today when the first of three bombs exploded, killing at least 35 youngsters.
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The situation for Iraqi children is getting worse and, in some respects, was better before the war began, a senior U.N. official said Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers and gunmen killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens across Iraq yesterday, while parliament leaders again put off debate on legislation that some Iraqis fear could threaten the country's unity and bring more violence.
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BAGHDAD -- Hanna is 10. She lives on a U.S. Army base here, playing computer games while her mother cleans. She has no playmates. Her mother is frightened to send her to school. If other students learned of her contact with Americans, "she would be kidnapped or killed."
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Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, unaware of what awaits them in a city altered in the sectarian warfare.
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More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sectarian violence that began on  Feb. 22 with the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra, according to a report released this week by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-associated group.
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A bomb attack near a soccer field in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed or wounded 19 people, most of them children, police said.
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Suspected Islamist insurgents targeted a major reconciliation meeting in Somalia with mortar bombs on Thursday, missing the venue but killing at least five children playing nearby, residents said.
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Hundreds of militant students under siege in a mosque in Pakistan's capital largely ignored calls from their captured leader to surrender on Thursday, raising fears that some children could be used as human shields.
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Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.
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GENEVA -- The fighting in Iraq is ''wreaking havoc&quot; on the children, all but preventing relief groups from working in the country, the UN children's agency said yesterday.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Fed up with car bombs and   death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of   Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, decided one day to pack   his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan.
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Children and their families, shattered by war, find care for devastating wounds in Jordan.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children clutching their  mothers' hands, some with tears in their eyes, returned to  schools in Beslan amid heavy security Wednesday, two weeks  after a hostage massacre at a school in the town.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni schoolteacher was hijacked as he drove to visit his sister in a predominantly Shi'ite area of Baghdad yesterday. His body was found an hour later, a grim reminder that sectarian violence persists in the capital despite a recent decline.