Iraq lets Baathists go back to work
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Iraq's parliament voted on Saturday to let thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party return to government jobs, winning praise from Washington for achieving a benchmark step toward reconciling warring sects.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 24 -- Iraq's fractious political parties reached a deal Sunday meant to prevent the country from splintering into a federation of three autonomous zones until at least 2008.
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KATHMANDU - Nepal said Friday it was working to bring back at least 1,000 nationals either in or trying to enter Iraq after 12 Nepalese were murdered by insurgents.
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For many Iraqis, the talks reaffirmed a widespread loss of faith in the elected governmentÂs ability to turn things around.
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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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DAVOS, Switzerland -- An Iraqi Cabinet minister suggested yesterday that Sunni Muslims and other groups who boycott this weekend's election should receive jobs in Iraqi ministries to give them a stake in the future of a democratic nation.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the north sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 3: After 42 days of captivity in Iraq, including a few traumatic TV moments with guns at their foreheads, the return of Tilak Raj, Antaryami Bains and Sukhdev Singh on Friday morning was quite simply the reunion of three weary men
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U.N. nuclear inspectors are welcome to return, an Iraqi minister said on Tuesday in response to concerns of an "apparent systematic dismantlement" of Saddam Hussein's once-vigorous nuclear program.
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Iraqi authorities will try to contact some former Baath Party figures who fled the country after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, but will not meet with those believed to be playing a key role in the insurgency, a senior official said Thursday.
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has agreed to look into political demands of the main Sunni Arab political bloc which pulled out of his Shi'ite-led government last month, his office said.
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The political bloc of fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Tuesday it had resumed participation in Iraq's parliament, suspended last month in protest over an attack on a revered Shi'ite mosque.
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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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Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister called on Saturday for the return of all officers of Saddam Hussein's disbanded army in a political overture to disaffected Sunni Arabs aimed at reducing sectarian violence.
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A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one more political and security goal into the satisfactory column: efforts to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to rejoin the political process, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
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Iraq's parliament reopened Tuesday after a summer recess and voted to extend a state of emergency for a month because of unrelenting sectarian violence, while the president predicted bloodshed will be quelled by the end of next year.
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Iraqâs parliament passed a measure to ease restrictions on members of Saddam Husseinâs Baath party.