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  Some 600,000 children trapped in Mosul, says charity
  Mosul (Iraq), Nov 17 (IANS/AKI) Around 600,000 children are trapped inside the beleaguered Iraqi city of Mosul where they are being maimed in the fighting and used as human shields, Save the Children said on Thursday.
  IS overran Mosul in June 2014 and declared it the capital of its Islamic 'caliphate' stretching across swathes of territory it seized in Iraq and Syria during a lightening offensive.