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Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday.

Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of their livelihoods.

Some 40% of Basra’s estimated population of 1.4 million lives in poverty, while unemployment is soaring. “It’s going to help revive the economy and tourism,” said Laith Jasb, ...