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Radar finds water for refugees

A NEW TECHNIQUE using satellite radar images may hold the key to providing the water needs of 200,000 Sudanese living in sweltering heat in camps along the Chadian border. Alain Gachet, a geologist who spent most of his working life exploring for oil and mining companies, has developed a system …

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Operator of mobile company in Iraq says envoy probably still alive

CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian owner of a mobile phone network in Iraq said Wednesday he was convinced that Egypt’s top envoy, believed slain by his abductors, is most likely alive, because of information he has obtained. The government said it had no indications he was still alive. Egyptian billionaire …

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Hospitals under strain

BAGHDAD — It is early afternoon in the emergency room of Baghdad’s Yarmouk Hospital. Medics are on stand by for a big influx of casualties from a bomb south of Baghdad. But right now they have a more pressing job. Several doctors, blood spattered on their white coats, are calmly …

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