Electricity Shortages Frays Tempers in Southern Iraq

Sheikh Haider Ali Hassan is preparing to go one without food and water during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan.
Electricity Shortages Frays Tempers in Southern Iraq
Dozens of Iraqis demonstrate in Baghdad on June 19 against power rationing. A spokesman for the Basra Provincial Council in the southern city of Basra said that residents receive around two hours of electricity for every five hours that it is turned off. Temperatures in the city reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and thousands of Basra residents came out to protest the rationing Saturday. Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images
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Like millions of other Muslims, Sheikh Haider Ali Hassan is preparing to go one without food and water during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan.

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Dozens of Iraqis demonstrate in Baghdad on June 19 against power rationing. A spokesman for the Basra Provincial Council in the southern city of Basra said that residents receive around two hours of electricity for every five hours that it is turned off. Temperatures in the city reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and thousands of Basra residents came out to protest the rationing Saturday. (Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images)
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