Desperate Iraqis join tide of migrants heading to Europe

BAGHDAD (AP) – As the sun sets over Baghdad, Mustafa Jassim Mohammed wades into the Tigris River, lifts his feet off the muddy bottom and paddles with an arm maimed by shrapnel, practicing ahead of a journey on which his ability to swim could mean the difference between death at sea and a new life in Europe.

He knows that hundreds of migrants – men, women and children – have died when the…

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