Sunni bloc returns to Iraqi parliament
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A small Sunni Arab bloc ended its parliamentary boycott Saturday, returning to the legislature as it considers key benchmark legislation demanded by Washington amid increasing pressure to end the political deadlock.
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Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday to ease restrictions on mostly Sunni Arab members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party returning to public life, one of the main political benchmarks set by the United States.
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Some members of the Sunni Muslim minority in Iraq should get positions in the new government following next month&#39;s elections, US Senators Carl Levin and Richard Lugar said.
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Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a benchmark sought by the United States as a key step toward national reconciliation.
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A Sunni Arab-led bloc ends its three-month boycott of Iraq's parliament - the last of several groups to return.
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The Shia Muslim bloc that won Iraq's election nominates Ibrahim Jaafari as prime minister, sources say.
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Iraq's firebrand Sunni Arab parliament speaker will not be removed from his post, a legislator from the country's most powerful Shiite political bloc said Friday.
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Embattled Sunni Muslims in Iraq may sit out the vote
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Iraq's fractious ethnic and religious parliamentary groups agreed Sunday to open debate on a contentious Shiite-proposed draft legislation that will allow the creation of federal regions in Iraq, politicians said.
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Iraq&#39;s Shia Muslims have joined forces to create the countryâs first serious post-war political coalition, which could well sweep to power in elections scheduled for the end of next month.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, left, is seen during a meeting with Sunni Muslim clerics at his offices in Baghdad&#39;s &quot;Green Zone&quot;, Saturday Oct. 30, 2004.
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Shiite Muslim politicians backed by Iraq&#39;s most prominent religious leader announced a powerful coalition of candidates Thursday that is likely to sweep January&#39;s parliamentary elections.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government's Parliament base fragmented yesterday with the defection of a hard-line Shi'ite bloc.
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BAGHDAD.âThe main Iraqi Sunni political grouping, the moderate Iraqi Islamic party (IIP), today withdrew its list of candidates for the January 30 elections, on a day once again full of violence in which 13 people died in an attack in Baghdad, DPA
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior Shia cleric in Iraq, unexpectedly returned to his homeland yesterday after nearly three weeks overseas during which anarchy has rapidly taken hold.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 13 -- The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday passed three key measures that for months had been the subject of bickering that threatened to undermine the country's political process.
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The interim prime minister of Iraq, Ayad Allawi, met here today with Sunni Arab leaders to try to persuade them to take part in the Iraqi elections planned for late next month.