Iraq Shi'ites Debate PM Choice, Allies After Poll
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Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance, fresh  from winning landmark elections, gathered on Monday to choose a  candidate for prime minister and the allies it needs after  failing to win an absolute majority.
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Arab officials and commentators said Tuesday they feared the budding dialogue between Washington and Iran could cut them out of the debate over the future of Iraq, one of the region's most important countries.
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Iraq s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi met on Sunday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for talks likely to be dominated by the need to improve security before Iraq s January elections.
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The leading candidate in a Shi'ite  alliance expected to dominate Iraq's Jan. 30 elections said on  Saturday that majority Shi'ites would not be dragged into a  civil war despite a series of bloody attacks on them.
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Top Shiite politicians failed to reach a consensus Wednesday on their nominee for prime minister, shifting the two-man race to a secret ballot and exposing divisions in the winning alliance. In a chilling reminder of challenges facing the winner, a videotape showed a sobbing Italian hostage pleading for her life.
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The top vote-getters in Iraq's national elections huddled Monday to bargain over posts in the next government, and Kurdish parties appeared in a pivotal position to install the first president of their ethnic minority in Iraq's history.
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Partial figures place Iraq's main Shia Muslim coalition in the lead in the country's landmark elections, officials say.
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BAGHDAD, Dec 9  - Iraq&#39;s majority Shiite Muslims on Thursday unveiled a broad alliance ahead of next month&#39;s key elections that is backed by their highest religious leader but which excludes radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission said on Wednesday it may consider holding next month's elections over an extended period, as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had suggested.
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Two aides to Iraq's top Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in separate attacks apparently aimed at inflaming sectarian conflict among Iraqis already divided on whether Jan. 30 polls should go ahead.
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The prospect of a Shiite leader with close ties to Iran coming to power raises the brooding issue of Iran's future influence in Iraq.
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In Iraq, students and Shiite political parties are backing the country&#39;s forthcoming national elections. And a spokesman for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says the 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.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Top Shi'ite clerics, emboldened by what they perceive as a massive turnout by their followers for the coalition of Shi'ite religious parties, have already directed their attention to advocating for an Islamic constitution, several of them said in the aftermath of Sunday's election.
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Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri   al-Maliki, will make his first official visit on Monday to   neighboring Shi'ite Iran, whose influence in Iraq is a matter   of concern in Washington.
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BAGHDAD -- Top Shi'ite politicians failed to reach a consensus yesterday on their nominee for prime minister, shifting the two-man race to a secret ballot and exposing divisions in the winning alliance.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 27 -- Iraq's Shiite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Saturday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan. 30, in an escalating dispute that magnifies the country's ethnic and sectarian fault lines.