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Deseret News - Mon Nov 23, 10:17 am ET
Iraq's parliament on Monday amended the country's vetoed election law with a new version that doesn't address the concerns of...
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Sun-Sentinel - Sat Nov 21, 9:19 am ET
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply.
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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 11:15 am ET
BAGHDAD, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Production from oil fields in Basra and Kirkuk contributed 58.2 million barrels to Iraqi exports for the month of October, officials said.
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OfficialWire - Tue Nov 24, 3:42 am ET
An election law passed Monday by the Iraqi Parliament faces another veto as it heads to a three-member presidency council for approval. Iraqi lawmakers had managed to settle lingering issues related to the ballot system and concerns over the vote in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk.
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antiMUSIC - Tue Nov 24, 4:36 am ET
On March 9th 2010, VICE Records will release Acrassicauda's debut EP Only The Dead See The End Of The War
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 22, 3:54 pm ET
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to Tehran on Sunday to appeal for the lives of Iranian Kurds sentenced to death, a newspaper website reported.
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WTOL 11 Toledo - Mon Nov 23, 10:31 am ET
Iraq's parliament failed Monday to produce an election law acceptable to minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to say that nationwide ballotingscheduled for January "might slip" to a...
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Sun-Sentinel - Sun Nov 22, 12:34 pm ET
BAGHDAD (AP) — A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.
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INO News - Mon Nov 23, 12:41 pm ET
(RTTNews) - Iraq's parliament Monday has passed an amended version of the new election law, without considering a demand by vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 22, 10:27 am ET
Iraq's parliament failed again on Sunday to break a stalemate over a key election law, raising fears that nationwide polls will have to be delayed beyond a constitutional deadline.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 22, 3:36 pm ET
An Iraqi Turkmen leader was assassinated at his home in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday by gunmen who knocked at his door then shot him, police and Turkmen sources said.
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NPR - Mon Nov 23, 1:17 am ET
One of the most popular programs on Iraqi TV these days is Hotline, a call-in show that allows viewers to take their problems directly to the highest government officials. It offers an unprecedented chance for ordinary Iraqis to confront their government.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 1:26 pm ET
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Monday returned a new elections law to the Iraqi presidency without including amendments the vice president had requested when he vetoed a previous version. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim, vetoed a previo...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 11:41 am ET
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Monday approved an amended version of the country's elections law and sent it back to the Iraqi presidency for approval. The decision followed Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi's November 19 veto of the law because he wante...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 10:41 am ET
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Monday decided not to override Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi's veto of the country's elections law, al-Arabiya television reported. Instead, they sent an amended version of the law back to the Iraqi presidency for appro...