From Yahoo News/Associated Press: Baghdad church siege ends with 52 dead. Within Christianity, a martyr is someone who is killed because they are a Christian. These believers were peacefully gathered together for worship. Al-Qaida in Iraq has threatened to "exterminate Iraqi Christians." Within Islam, a person who is killed because they are a Muslim would …
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Drought and recovery
These images from the NASA Earth Observatory show areas of drought (brown = below average plant growth) and excess plant growth (green = above average plant growth). Northern Iraq is suffering a severe drought. Much of the country's grain is dependent on seasonal rainfall rather than irrigation: Grain-producing regions of Afghanistan, on the other hand, …
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