Iraqi Leaders Allow Controversial Baathist Law to Take Effect
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 3 -- Controversial legislation that had been promoted as a way to return former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to government became law Sunday, Iraq's presidency council said, despite objections by Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni Arab government official.
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BAGHDAD/BEIRUT  - Iraq's cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft oil law crucial to regulating how wealth from the country's vast oil reserves will be shared by its ethnic and sectarian groups, a move hailed as a major political milestone.
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Iraqi leaders hope to flesh out a deal to end sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad when they meet again on Tuesday and conceded a four-point plan, drafted under U.S. pressure, was still short on vital detail.
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Roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged under a new set of laws criminalizing speech against the government.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Cabinet approved a draft law yesterday to manage the country's vast oil industry and distribute its wealth among the population -- a major breakthrough in US efforts to press the country's Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurdish groups to reach agreements to achieve stability.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 2 -- Iraq's prime minister announced a new plan Monday aimed at ending the deepening crisis between Shiite and Sunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop sectarian killings that have bloodied the country for months.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced that proceedings would begin against former Baath Party leaders.
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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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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet has approved a draft of a key oil law, and the Iraqi parliament was expected to begin debate on the measure Wednesday, an official said.
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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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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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Iraq's government submits a key bill on how to share the country's oil wealth to parliament, officials say.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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Iraq's leaders have just months to mend   their differences or see their country collapse, the speaker of   parliament told wrangling deputies on Wednesday after a car   bomb caused dozens of casualties in the morning rush hour.
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If a law criminalizing the mutilation gets pushed through by Iraqi Kurds, it will be the first of its kind in the Middle East
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Iraq's government backs a draft law to release thousands of suspected insurgents held by US and Iraqi forces.
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Iraqi lawmakers reconvened on Tuesday after a month-long summer recess, under mounting pressure to get legislation passed that Washington believes will help heal deep sectarian rifts in the country.