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Iraqi Kurds rally over right to raise Kurdish flag (AP)


Iraqi anaesthesiologists take part in a sit-in protest demanding the increase of their salaries and offering accommodation instead of importing foreign anaesthesiologists and nurses, outside the Health Ministry headquarters in Baghdad October 16, 2011. Iraq is seeking foreign anaesthesiologists and nurses to solve drain on its health system as thousands of doctors fled the country because of kidnappings and murder. Violence in Iraq has ebbed over the recent years as the 2006-07 sectarian slaughter between majority Shi'ites and once dominant Sunnis ended, but Iraqi doctors still face daily dangers. The banners read, Iraqi Kurds rally over right to raise Kurdish flag
(AP):
AP - Thousands of Iraqi Kurds demonstrated in this northern city Sunday to demand the right to raise the Kurdish region's flag over
government buildings.



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