Rape claim splits Iraq government
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Allegations that police in Baghdad raped a Sunni woman threaten to eclipse the Iraqi government's new security drive.
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Iraq's politicians are trying to stitch together a new majority alliance in parliament that would leave Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in power and freeze out backers of a powerful Shiite cleric who is leading a political standoff, officials said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD -- Shi'ite politicians demanded changes in Iraq's government yesterday, accusing a Sunni Arab party in the coalition of ties to terrorism after a bodyguard for its leader was arrested on suspicion of planning bomb attacks.
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Women who say they were sexually assaulted in Iraq by co-workers have found themselves unable to seek justice.
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq  - The Iraqi woman at the center   of a rape-murder inquiry by the U.S. military was no more than   16 years old when she was killed along with her parents and   young sister four months ago, the local mayor said on Monday.
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A Top Sunni official is fired after calling for an investigation into rape allegations leveled by a Sunni Arab woman against three members of Iraq's security forcs
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Three officers of the Shiite-dominated police force have been cleared of allegations that they raped a Sunni woman in their custody, a government statement said Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan voiced anger Tuesday over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa by a United States marine.
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Iraq's prime minister moves to put an end to disquiet about an alleged rape of a Sunni women by police.
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A Sunni woman says she was assaulted by Shiite police, but Iraq's Prime Minister says the charge is bogus.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired a top Sunni official Wednesday after he called for an international investigation into the rape allegations leveled by a Sunni Arab woman against three members of the Shiite-dominated security forces.
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BAGHDAD, July 9 -- Iraq's foreign minister on Monday said the country may fracture into separate parts and its government could collapse if the U.S. begins withdrawing troops too quickly -- a warning delivered as debate over war policy intensifies in the White House and Congress.
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The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq vowed militants would avenge a Sunni woman's alleged rape by members of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Friday it was suspending its participation in cabinet because of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers, deepening the sectarian gulf between the country's politicians.
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BAGHDAD June 11--- Iraq's parliament voted today to oust its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani, a day after one of his bodyguards allegedly roughed up another lawmaker, legislators said.
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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 - The Iraqi government denounced on Wednesday the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, the head of the international relief group Care in Baghdad, and lashed out at Al-Jazeera television for airing footage of her in captivity.