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&#39;s spiraling violence.
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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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Boys and girls as young as nine years  old are in the front line of wars across the world, and even  when the fighting has finished they are largely neglected in  the peace process, a report said Wednesday.
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Bombers and gunmen killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens across Iraq on Monday, while parliament leaders again put off debate on legislation that some Iraqis fear could threaten the country's unity and bring even more violence.
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BAQUBA, Sep 2 (IPS) - The violence around the continuing U.S. military  operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood.
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Violent civilian deaths in Iraq in December were down 75 percent from a year ago, new figures released on Monday showed as Iraqis partied in the streets of some parts of the capital Baghdad to bring in the New Year.
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Children as young as five are learning a deep hatred as the power struggle between militias takes a disturbing new course
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Fewer Iraqi Christians than usual came to church for Christmas Day prayers on Saturday, but those that did came despite fears insurgents, who have attacked churches and mosques in the past year, would strike again.
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The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other 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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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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Fewer Iraqi Christians than usual came  to church for Christmas Day prayers on Saturday, but those that  did came despite fears insurgents, who have attacked churches  and mosques in the past year, would strike again.
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Some 80,000 Iraqis have fled their   homes and registered with the government as refugees over the   past two months, data showed on Thursday, taking the total in   seven months of sectarian violence to a quarter of a million.
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BESLAN, Russia - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.    Students and teachers began the school day with a minute of silence, and officials said the town's seven schools would have a shortened day of classes...
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Dozens of girls have been skipping school in this Pakistani Kashmir mountain town, but neither bullies nor boredom is to blame. Teachers say pupils fear being crushed in an earthquake like the one that killed 80,000 people one year ago Sunday.
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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Baghdad -- Some of the children cry. Some refuse to speak, shivering in shock at the day&#39;s horror. Others lie lifeless in the morgue at Yarmouk Hospital.