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Record heat, politics inflame Iraq's electricity shortages

by Associated Press
| August 5, 2020 12:03 AM

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — In Iraq’s oil-rich south, the scorching summer months pose painful new choices in the age of the coronavirus: stay at home in the sweltering heat with electricity cut off for hours, or go out and risk the virus.

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