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To match feature IRAQ/ELECTIONS-BASRA
09 Dec 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Women buy fish at a market in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad November 26, 2008. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes into force in January 2009. Picture taken November 26. To match feature IRAQ/ELECTIONS-BASRA REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ)
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