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Baghdad's Bridge Over Troubled Water

Sunni and Shia neighbours welcome reopening of symbolic bridge after notorious stampede.

No Iraqi Consensus on US Security Pact

Many unsure what to make of historic deal signed off last week.

Kurdish Party Hits Out at Former Leader

Prominent former PUK leader accused of using dissident faction as proxy to settle political scores.

Special Report

Turks and Iraqi Kurds Don't Let Politics Get in Way of Business

Relations between the two remain cool, as trade and other economic ties flourish.

Emerging Lingerie Trade Wins Customers

(19-Dec-08)

Iraqi Journalists Rue Shoe Assault

Despite some initial awe, press corps mostly dismayed by TV correspondent who flung shoe at US president.

First Person

Emigre Life Not the Easy Way Out

(19-Dec-08)

Campaign to Change Unfair Citizenship Law Continues

(19-Dec-08)

Syria Edges Closer to Europe

(19-Dec-08)

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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