Iraq gets first beauty queen since 1972

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AFP, Baghdad :
“Some people out there think we don’t love life,” said Humam al-Obeidi, one of the organisers, as the crowd spilled out of the Baghdad hotel ballroom where the pageant was held.
The jury chose Shaymaa Abdelrahman, a tall, green-eyed 20-year-old from Iraq’s multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk.
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