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Iraq Summons UK Charge D'affaires over Ambassador's Remarks

Iraqi security forces secure Palestine Street the day after some 30 people attacked two restaurants, including the American KFC, in Baghdad on June 4, 2024. (AFP)
Iraqi security forces secure Palestine Street the day after some 30 people attacked two restaurants, including the American KFC, in Baghdad on June 4, 2024. (AFP)
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Iraq Summons UK Charge D'affaires over Ambassador's Remarks

Iraqi security forces secure Palestine Street the day after some 30 people attacked two restaurants, including the American KFC, in Baghdad on June 4, 2024. (AFP)
Iraqi security forces secure Palestine Street the day after some 30 people attacked two restaurants, including the American KFC, in Baghdad on June 4, 2024. (AFP)

Iraq has summoned Britain's chargé d'affaires over remarks made by the British Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Hitchcock about the country's security and political issues, the country's state news agency reported on Sunday.
The ambassador's remarks reflect "a bleak image of Iraq, its government and components", it added.

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Sudan Declares Cholera Epidemic

Patients suffering from cholera receive treatment at a rural isolation center in Wad Al-Hilu in Kassala state in eastern Sudan, on August 17, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Patients suffering from cholera receive treatment at a rural isolation center in Wad Al-Hilu in Kassala state in eastern Sudan, on August 17, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
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Sudan Declares Cholera Epidemic

Patients suffering from cholera receive treatment at a rural isolation center in Wad Al-Hilu in Kassala state in eastern Sudan, on August 17, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Patients suffering from cholera receive treatment at a rural isolation center in Wad Al-Hilu in Kassala state in eastern Sudan, on August 17, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Sudan's health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry.

"We are declaring a cholera epidemic because of the weather conditions and because drinking water has been contaminated," Haitham Ibrahim said in the video, according to Agence France Presse.

He said the decision was taken in conjunction with authorities in the eastern state of Kassala, United Nations agencies and experts after the "discovery by the public health laboratory of the cholera virus".

For weeks the country has seen torrential rainfall, with Kassala state badly hit. The authorities there have appealed for "immediate" and "urgent" international aid.

Thousands of people have been displaced by flooding, causing an increase in sickness including diarrhea, especially in children.