Tens of thousands of followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr take to the streets of Iraq's southern city of Basra.
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On the anniversary of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, they're calling on the government to provide better living conditions for Iraqis. Some demonstrators wave brooms and shovels symbolically asking for jobs. Iraq suffers from high rates of unemployment, after nine years of war cost tens of thousands of lives and left the country grappling with political uncertainty.
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