Iraq water minister: $15 billion in repairs needed
Baghdad, other cities struggle with shattered water system
06/28/05 01:39 PM, EDT
Iraq, the land of two rivers that once irrigated the world's earliest civilizations, needs up to $15 billion to repair a dilapidated water system crippled by war and neglect, the country's water minister said Tuesday.
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Canadian court: Rwandan should face genocide charges
Justices OK deportation, say 1992 speech incited attacks
06/28/05 01:36 PM, EDT
Rwandan exile Leon Mugesera helped incite the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people in his native country and should be deported to face charges in the African nation, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday.
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Civil War authority Shelby Foote dead
Writer became famous for history of conflict, Burns documentary
06/28/05 01:30 PM, EDT
Novelist and Civil War historian Shelby Foote, whose appearances on a PBS-TV documentary series helped America better understand one of the most defining periods of its past, has died, his family said Tuesday.
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