Extreme weather in Iraq hits the most vulnerable hardest 

The weather in Iraq has been brutal. Dust storms have choked cities such as Baghdad and Najaf, forcing people to stay indoors. In northern Iraq, flash floods have killed at least a dozen people near the city of Erbil. Women and the poor are experiencing the worst of it, as Yasmine Mosimann reports. 

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