Iraqi marshlands partially restored
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Iraqi environmental officials said Thursday that part of their country's fabled marshlands have been restored with international help, but further effort is needed to revive the ecosystem.
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Iraq will seal its borders next week to  prevent Shi'ite pilgrims flooding into the country, the  government said Thursday, in the latest emergency measure  intended to thwart insurgent violence.
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AL QAIM, Iraq  - On a street surrounded by ruins of bombed-out homes, stonemasons were working into the hottest part of the day to finish the second-floor gallery of the grand house they are rebuilding for Sheikh Mausuf Murdi.
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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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Life returns slowly to normal in the battered Iraqi city after a huge US-led operation to wrest control from insurgents.
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By Gail Smith-Arrants, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 22--Resurrection of a wetlands Land near 2 schools will be restored to its former life-rich state Gail Smith-Arrants   It's a tranquil but neglected spot, a slice of old farm bottomland.
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US and Iraqi troops say they have recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul . The US military also said on Wednesday that Falluja appeared calmer while operations to regain
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Nearly 380 tonnes of deadly explosives, powerful enough to shatter air planes, demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons, are missing from one of Iraq&#39;s most sensitive former military installations, the interim government has
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British oil giant BP said it had signed an agreement with the Iraqi government to study an oil field in the south of the country.
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Developments in Iraq on Thursday:
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President George W. Bush and his advisers like to say that sovereignty has been returned to the Iraqis. But the heart of the Iraqi capital, where the symbols of power are most concentrated, belongs to America.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Britain handed over security to Iraqi forces on Sunday in the last of four provinces it once patrolled, effectively marking the end of nearly five years of British control of southern Iraq.
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Iraqi archaeologists working in a city south of Baghdad unearthed more than 1,000 antiquities and delivered them Monday to the National Museum, which has struggled to rebuild its collection since it was looted in the U.S.-led invasion.
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ON THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq -- The three flat-bottomed boats ease onto the river under a full moon.
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Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett has visited the restive southern Iraqi city of Basra, as the military announced it was sending 360 extra troops to protect reconstruction projects.
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By Henry Meyer  BEIRUT, Lebanon  --  Shovel-wielding volunteers sifted through oil-stained sand on a beach where tourists once swam, now emptied by a massive spill caused by Israeli bombardment. Two months later, only 3 percent of the oil has been recovered.
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WASHINGTON -- The former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah has calmed somewhat, with signs of commerce reappearing on the streets and no shots fired over the past 10 days at US or Iraqi forces, the Marine general overseeing US troops in the city said yesterday.