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Mon 04 Apr 2003Information and Foreign Ministry in Iraqi handsThe Information Ministry and the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad are firmly in Iraqi hands, withheavily armed Republican Guards spread over the area takingfighting positions, witnesses reported today.The Foreign Ministry is a few hundred metres fromone of the main gates of the presidential palace which USforces said they now occupied.