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Newsday: 30/08/2022 06:06 GMT : Deadly clashes in Iraq after al-Sadr quits

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30/08/2022 06:06 GMT : Deadly clashes in Iraq after al-Sadr quits

Deadly clashes in Iraq after al-Sadr quits

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At least twenty people are known to have been killed and hundreds wounded

Regional airlines have halted flights as neighbouring countries urge their citizens to leave

Fighting between Iraqi security forces and Shia militia has continued inside the heavily-fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Foreigners have been caught up in the street fighting, with Dutch embassy staff forced to move to the German mission.

Ukraine says it has broken through Russian defences in several sectors of the frontline near the city of Kherson, which has been occupied by Moscow since the start of the invasion.

And in the Democratic Republic of Congo, protests against UN peacekeepers turn deadly.

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