Al-Sistani-backed list of 228 candidates for Iraqi elections ...
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A Shiite official Thursday announced a coalition of 228 candidates backed by leading Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Iraq&#39;s Jan. 30 elections.
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(SH) - In Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai defeated a raft of candidates to win his historic election. In Iraq, more than 200 political parties have registered for next month&#39;s elections.
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Elezioni, incertezza e tensione dopo i risultati                                                                                                  L'Alleanza irachena unita (il partito sciita che fa capo ad Al Sistani) ha vinto le elezioni del 30 gennaio con il 47,6% dei voti, ma non avrÃ  la maggioranza assoluta dei 275 seggi del Parlamento di Bagdad. Poi l'Alleanza curda col 25,7% e il partito di Allawi con il 13,8%. A Nassiriya Ã¨ stato ucciso Hassan Ghali Khiwaet, 51 anni. Lavorava per la missione Antica Babilonia dal 2003. Con lui, ammazzato anche il figlio Salah, 20 anni. Rapito un leader cristiano.
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ELECTION: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained that the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country&#39;s January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help with the vital balloting.
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Besides President Bush, few U.S. politicians have as much at stake in the next steps in Iraq as the ever growing list of potential 2008 presidential candidates.
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Iraqis living in 14 countries will be able to  vote in the general election scheduled for 30 January.
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In a step towards landmark elections in Iraq, registering of voters and potential candidates has begun despite the latest violence, which claimed the life of Baghdad&#39;s deputy governor.
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Iraqi Official Says UN Has Not Sent Enough Workers to Help With Balloting in Jan. Elections. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari gives a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct 20, 2004.
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Iraq&#39;s majority Shiites have unveiled a major alliance ahead of next month&#39;s landmark elections that is backed by their highest religious leader - but which excludes radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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Violence marred Iraq&#39;s first official day of parliamentary election campaigning Wednesday as interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced his candidacy for the Jan. 30
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Judging by the statements of those who have the power to decide, an election will be held in Iraq on January 31 - come what may. Despite calls for a six-month delay from Iraqi political parties involved
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Some 7,200 people have registered as prospective candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections that are widely seen as a referendum on rule of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iraqi electoral officials on Sunday scheduled national and provincial elections for Jan. 30 and said that nearly 200 political groups had applied to take part.
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Some members of the Sunni Muslim minority in Iraq should get positions in the new government after next month's elections to protect their rights, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday. The senators also said they opposed quotas even as they favored an accommodation between the majority Shiites and the minority Sunnis.
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The United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) slate announced in Baghdad on Thursday is backed by the country&#39;s revered Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and now looks favored to win Iraq&#39;s first free election in decades, planned for January 30.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqâs majority Shiites yesterday unveiled a broad electoral alliance in a move likely to leave them with the lionâs share of the vote in next monthâs landmark polls for a transitional government.
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&quot;It will be positive to hold Iraqi elections on time ... and protect the interests of all political, ethnic and sectarian. their own significant Shi&#39;ite populations could demand more influence.