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BAGHDAD — A kidney specialist who fled Iraq’s bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital — one of about 800 doctors who have returned over the summer.
Doctors are just a tiny group among Iraq’s more than 4 million refugees and displaced, but Iraq’s health minister says their homecoming sends a message to other emigres that security has “improved dramatically.”
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More than half a century after Chiune Sugihara issued visas to thousands of Jewish families in Lithuania so they could travel to Japan as a path of survival during World War II, Brookline Town Meeting members will decide in November whether to declare a day of remembrance for the former Japanese consul general.
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