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Roman police find sewer children The children were found in sewers close to railway stations Italian police have found more than 100 immigrants, including 24 Afghan children, living in the sewer system beneath railway stations in Rome. The children range in age from 10 to 15 years and are now being looked after by the city's social services. They were found when the railway police followed up reports of children living near the city's stations. The police say they do not speak Italian and broke into the sewers by removing manhole covers. The charity Save the Children Italy says that...

BAGHDAD — Raw sewage is no longer inundating a neighborhood in east Baghdad. Residents in Oubadi, located near Sadr City, are benefiting from a recently completed $14.9 million Gulf Region South district project that connected their homes for the first time ever to a new functioning sewer collection system. “People there are very pleased with the improvement,” said Iraqi engineer Mustafa Haddad who works for the GRS, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “For over two years we’ve been working on this project and the community has been very supportive throughout. They were using slit trenches and lakes of raw sewage,...