Iraq deputies pass landmark bills
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Iraqi MPs pass three important laws after weeks of delays and brinkmanship between rival factions.
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Iraq's cabinet approved changes to a draft oil law on Tuesday, taking a big step towards meeting a key political target for national reconciliation set by the United States.
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Iraq's cabinet approved changes to a landmark draft hydrocarbon law on Tuesday and will submit the bill to parliament after months of bickering between the central government and Kurdish officials.
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The measure, which will allow some former officials from the Baath Party to apply for government positions, is the first of the so-called political benchmark measures to pass after months of U.S. pressure for progress.
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The legislation could allow Shiites in the south to form semi-independent regions, like Kurdistan in the north.
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Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
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The interim Iraqi national assembly convened for the first time today as Iraq took a small and tentative step toward representative government.
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The Iraq war funding bill cleared by Congress represents a triumph of divided government, beloved by none, crafted to avoid a protracted veto struggle that neither President Bush nor Democrats wanted.
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The move marked a major agreement among the countryâs ethnic and sectarian political blocs on one of Iraqâs most divisive issues.
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The resolution was approved 246 to 182. The Senate is expected to consider Saturday whether to move ahead toward a vote on an Iraq resolution.
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Iraqi election workers Tuesday began collecting the vote tallies from around the country, putting the finishing touches on the first free election in Iraq in half a century.
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The money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was added to a sweeping year-end budget bill.
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BAGHDAD, Jan.12 -- The Iraqi parliament on Saturday approved legislation that would reform the process for allowing members of the Baath Party to return to government jobs and collect their pensions, an important achievement for the divided parliament on an issue that is still regarded with raw...
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 -- Legislators were outraged, insults were hurled. Opponents dragged out old ethnic divisions and warned of a dark collusion.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Baghdad on Tuesday to see top Iraqi officials after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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The 280-142 roll call Thursday by which the House passed an Iraq war spending bill.
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Highlights of the latest version of an Iraq war resolution by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., that is winning support from Democratic leaders and some Republicans and is expected to be debated next week by the Senate.