IRAQ

Times of India: Iraqi children face death from malnutrition: UN

GENEVA: More than 300,000 Iraqi children face death from acute malnutrition, twice as many as before US and British forces invaded the country in March, the United Nations UNICEF agency warned on Wednesday.

Many of these - nearly eight per cent of all Iraqi children under five - could be saved if the occupation forces ensured that aid convoys could move around freely and kept looters away from water plants and pipelines, it said.