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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team will the royal corgis in attendance at Buckingham Palace, London Tuesday Nov. 5, 2002. Queen Elizabeth II's corgis were a key part of her public persona and her death has raised concern over who will care for her beloved dogs. The corgis were always by her side and lived a life of privilege fit for a royal. She owned nearly 30 throughout her life. She is reportedly survived by four dogs. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

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A queen and her corgis: Elizabeth loved breed from childhood
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Sun,09/11/22-8:27AM , 318 Reads
LONDON (AP) — For many people around the world, the word corgi is forever linked to Queen Elizabeth II.
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Muqtada al-Sadr is seen during prayers at the Al-Kufa Mosque Friday, July 18, 2003, in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Sadr is a populist cleric, who emerged as a symbol of resistance against the U.S. occupation of Iraq after the 2003 invasion. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

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EXPLAINER: What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad?
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Tue,08/30/22-10:18AM , 254 Reads
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street violence this week – the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum.
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A general view of the dried up Lake Sawa Iraq, is seen Saturday, June 4, 2022. This year, for the first time in its centuries-long history, Sawa Lake dried up completely. A combination of mismanagement by local investors, government neglect and climate change has ground down its azure shores to chunks of salt. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Iraq's 'pearl of the south' Lake Sawa dry amid water crisis
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Mon,06/13/22-1:09AM , 330 Reads
LAKE SAWA, Iraq (AP) — Hussam al-Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq’s Lake Sawa where his two daughters once dipped their feet into clear waters. Now he stands there two years on and the barren earth cracks beneath him.
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A combine harvester at the middle of a wheat field harvesting crops in Yousifiyah, Iraq Tuesday, May. 24, 2022. At a time when worldwide prices for wheat have soared due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Iraqi farmers say they are paying the price for a government decision to cut irrigation for agricultural areas by 50% due to severe water shortages arising from high temperatures, drought, climate change and ongoing water extraction by neighboring countries from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - all factors that have heavily strained wheat production. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Severe water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Sun,05/29/22-1:06AM , 449 Reads
BAGHDAD (AP) — Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and inspected its seeds in the palm of one hand. They were several grams lighter than he hoped.

“It’s because of the water shortages,” he said, the farm machine roaring behind him, cutting and gathering his year’s wheat harvest.
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