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                                                   photo: SMC  At least eight million tons of silt and waste were removed from 136 kilometers of river systems in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Garbage clogs the banks of Iraq's Tigris River in Baghdad but an army of young volunteers is cleaning it, a rare environmental project in the war-battered country. With boots and gloves, they pick up soggy trash, water bottles, aluminium cans and muddy styrofoam boxes, part...