King orders $500m in aid for Iraqis

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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered $500 million in humanitarian aid to the brotherly people of Iraq affected by the painful events, including the displaced, regardless of their religion, sect or ethnicity, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been informed of the Saudi aid, which will be "provided through UN agencies to the Iraqi people only," the statement said. The United Nations says 1.2 million Iraqis have been driven from their homes by violence this year, hundreds of thousands of them by a three-week-old militant offensive that has swept up a swathe of territory **rth of Baghdad. The International Organization for Migration has called for the creation of humanitarian corridors, warning that tens of thousands of Iraqis displaced by the violence are beyond the reach of aid agencies.

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