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Crumbling at the Edges

The redeployment of Iraqi army units strengthens fears that Saddam Hussein is planning to fight the Americans with oil.

Saudi's Balancing Act

Caught between its American alliance and widespread anti-Americanism, Saudi leaders oppose the war officially but assist US forces all the same.

Cowardly War

Resigned to their fate, some Iraqis do their nails, some check their property. And some just feel ill.

A Diary of Life Under Fire

It's business as usual - by order - for Baghdad's bakers and garbage collectors, but the Interior Minister is showing the strain.

Region Responds to Conflict

Images of Iraqis welcoming US troops are matched by concern among neighbours, even in Israel, over the long-term impact of the war.

The Glory but not the Gore

Embedded journalists are providing only a sanitised version of the war.

Broadcasting the Day After

Radical reform of the media is essential for Iraqi democracy.

Awaiting the Worst

Kurds are expecting the quiet of recent days to be broken by the opening of the northern front.

Drawing the Enemy to Baghdad

Saddam Hussein is seeking to pull American and British forces into guerrilla warfare and street-to-street fighting.

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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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