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Border closed

Wednesday 05 May 1993 23:02 BST
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Iraq closed its borders for five days and invalidated pre-Gulf War 25-dinar banknotes yesterday in an attempt to prevent the collapse of its currency under United Nations economic sanctions, AP reports from Amman.

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