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A thick sheet of orange dust blankets the capital Baghdad as the eighth duststorm since mid-April hits Iraq, which has been battered by soil degradation, intense droughts and low rainfall linked to climate change. IMAGES
Vehicles drive down roads in Iraq's capital Baghdad as thick dust blankets the city. According to authorities, Iraq closed airports and public buildings as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country. IMAGES
Visibility in the Iraq's Fallujah is reduced to just a few metres as a dust storm descends on the city. Country-wide than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments due to sandstorms. IMAGES
Dust storm hits the Iraqi capital of Baghdad prompting the cancellation of flights. As the storm swept south, it shrouded Baghdad and cities as far south as Nasiriyah in a ghostly orange. IMAGES
Managua, Sep 25 (EFE).- Nicaragua began Saturday the electoral campaign for the November elections, which will be marked by the pandemic, the arrest of several presidential candidates, the lack of propaganda, and the predominance of Sandinista symbols, whose leader, President Daniel Ortega, also seeks another reelection. (Camera: RENEE LUCIA RAMOS).SHOT LIST: THE CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NICARAGUAN CHRISTIAN WAY (CCN) PARTY GUILLERMO OSORNO AND THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIOLETA MARTINEZ PARTICIPATE IN THE START OF THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN, IN MANAGUA, NICARAGUA.
Baghdad, Mar 5 (EFE), (Camera: Cristina Cabrejas).- Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad on Friday for the first ever papal visit to Iraq, and his first trip abroad since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year.He will meet members of the country’s Christian minority community which was persecuted by the Islamic State that occupied parts of Iraq for three years until the terror group was defeated in late 2017.Sectarian violence in the war-torn country has seen Iraq’s Christian population fall from 1.5 million in 2003 to just 300,000.FOOTAGE OF POPE FRANCIS ON BOARD OF THE PLANE THAT TOOK HIM TO IRAQ ON FRIDAY.