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Above: Listen to a version of this story by Jessica Seldner that aired on WUFT-FM. Some six thousand miles separate the cities of Gainesville, Florida, and Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq, but the two are ready to reignite a long-distance friendship. The two cities are participants in a program called Sister Cities International and on Monday morning signed a renewed sister city agreement. Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe and Ali Tatar, the governor of Duhok, signed an agreement that establishes mutual friendship and collaboration between the public and private sectors in both cities. Gainesville and Duh...

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Two PKK militants stand at a checkpoint. (Photo: AFP/Safin Hamed) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – At least one Peshmerga was martyred as a result of an attack by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sunday night at a checkpoint in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province. The attack occurred as a group of PKK militants crossed a checkpoint manned by Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces in Amedi’s Derish village and opened fire on the stationed Peshmerga forces, resulting in one death among them, according to an informed source in the area. The clashes between the forces took an hour before it s...