Iraqi schoolboy dreams of golden future
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Iraq's Amer Ali knows he is unlikely to win any medals at the 15th Asian Games, but at only 10-years-old the schoolboy swimmer has time on his side.
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A U.S. soldier who served in Iraq was so moved by the story of Youssif he had to do something.
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YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?
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Here's what Karrar Haider, a 10-year-old Shi'ite boy at a school in eastern Baghdad, told Santa he wants this year for the holidays:
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The machinery of Iraqi elections churned smoothly on Monday: Over and over, a plexiglass tumbler spun effortlessly on its axle, then eased to a graceful stop as a smiling young
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Iraqis, weary of violence and  deprivation, erupted in wild celebration Saturday after their  national soccer team beat Australia 1-0 in the Athens Games.
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Ibrahim Jaafari, a former exile and a physician, appears poised to become Iraq's new prime minister.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Hotel employee Rafaat Maher dreamed  the postwar reconstruction of Iraq would lure throngs of  customers to enjoy the view of sacred Najaf.
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In Iraq, a birth worth blogging about.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - When Saddam Hussein ruled Najaf  with an iron fist, Samir Ghalib stayed home during troubled  times.
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ATHENS - Iraqi dreams of winning only their second Olympic medal were shattered on Friday when Italy beat them in a men&#39;s soccer bronze match overshadowed by the killing of an Italian hostage in Iraq.
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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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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In a region famed for its dates and poets, Sheik Adnan Aidani confronts a constellation of religious and political forces that hold sway in Iraq's fiercely traditional countryside and that may prove decisive in Sunday's election for parliament.
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Young Iraqi with heart condition died as doctors tried to establish his eligibility for free treatment
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BAGHDAD -- Down a side street in the busy Yarmouk district, midterm exams are underway at Al Mamoon Scientific Secondary School.
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Sitting amid mounds of rotting garbage in a rubbish dump in Baghdad, 13-year-old Huda Hamdan is the human face of a new U.N. report that says a third of war- torn Iraq's 26 million people live in poverty.