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With chants and ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the inauguration of a recently-restored Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul on Friday, years after jihadists turned it into a religious police office.Around 300 faithful attended the first mass in the 80-year-old church of Um al-Mauna -- "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" after it was fully renovated. They prayed and took photos on mobile phones."I've been waiting for this day," 74-year-old former school director Ilham Abdullah said.

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In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable minority who have been persecuted and lost many of their historic documents.

Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitise historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing.Back in the van, equipped with two devices connected to a screen, the small team starts the hours-long scanning process before returning the books to the library.

Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Feb 29, 2024 - A Turkish drone strike in northwestern Iraq killed two members of a group affiliated to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Thursday, said Kurdish authorities.