Iraqis eke out living in Baghdad rubbish dump
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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.
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Throughout the American troop increase, Iraqis have continued to flee their homes leaving uncrossable sectarian lines and shattered trust.
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Stunned residents picked their way through a wasteland of mud and rubble to leave storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the government said it has run out of money to pay for relief services.
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Entering Nairobi's fetid slums the senses are first assaulted by a gagging stench and the sight of garbage everywhere, some even hanging from trees or smoldering in acrid fires.
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Stinking mounds of garbage piled up on the streets of Naples Friday and officials around the country blamed organized crime and bureaucratic red tape for the city's refuse crisis.
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Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest. Forget about the reasons that lured me to this job: a chance to see the world, explore the exotic
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraqis reacted with anger,  frustration and resentment Friday after many returned to  Falluja to discover their homes in rubble and their livelihoods  ruined following last month's U.S. offensive.
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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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The U.S. Embassy in Rome is warning Americans traveling to Naples and its surrounding region they may face health risks from a garbage crisis that has left rubbish piling up in the streets.
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Stunned residents picked their way through a wasteland of mud and rubble to leave storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the government said it had run out of money to pay for relief services.
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(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) Dec. 5, 2004 - Gunmen in Iraq have killed 17 Iraqis and injured 13 others as they arrived to work at a weapons dump controlled by coalition forces.
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BAGHDAD (Iraq): As the intensity of skirmishes swelled on the soils of Iraq, dozens of people were put to death with toxic shots by the US helicopter gunship, which targeted the civilians, milling around a burning American vehicle in a Baghdad street on
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The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Millions of Iraqis have fled their devastated homeland. For members of the middle class, refugee-friendly Sweden is the destination of choice
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BAGHDAD -- In a yard cluttered with junked cars, oil drums and columns of tires, Jassim Shelal was furiously trying to recharge the battery of his generator. It was no ordinary task. The lives of a few thousand Iraqis depended on his skill and, above all, his speed.
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Reports that British troops based in the relatively calm south of Iraq could be redeployed under US command near strife-torn Baghdad drew a storm of criticism from opposition parties.
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.