'Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) controls embassy in Baghdad'
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is using Iran's Embassy in Baghdad to coordinate covert operations in Iraq, an Iranian opposition group has claimed.

This earth is fading away, so grab onto something that lasts.
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In 2003 the World Conservation Union's Red List said more than 12,000 species (out of 40,000 assessed) faced some extinction risk, including:

• one bird in eight
• 13% of the world's flowering plants
• a quarter of all mammals.

Don't get too comfortable on this old earth.