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Since April this year, air pollution levels in Tehran have seen a sharp spike with a thick blanket of noxious smog engulfing the capital city at irregular intervals.

The Mittani were a mighty empire, but most traces of them were lost for thousands of years. Now, a 3,400-year-old lost city is emerging from the Tigris River.

By John Lee. The Cabinet held its weekly meeting on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. Following discussions, the Cabinet ordered the Ministry of Finance to provide funding of 5.75 billion dinars ($3.9 million) for emergency works to address water scarcity in Diyala Governorate: IQD 1.75 billion to the General Authority for

* Crop failures grow as warming brings more heat and drought * Farmers look to migrate - but urban opportunities are limited * Resilient wheat seed offers help but distribution is limited By Tessa Fox ABU AL-KHASEEB, Iraq, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight.

>> it's been the crossroads of civilization. it's one of the earliest places you'll see. it's in a warm spot, a lot of fertile lands and rivers across there, much like the meopotamia and the tigris. but what i like to focus on is not necessarily what the foreign empires are doing, but the people themselves. for people to consider that there are victims of genocide in ukraine, as my friend spoke to you last week, not just of the stalin genocide against ukrainian people, but they were ethnically cleansed off of crimea, note once, but three times. there's also the holocaust that happened in ukrai...