Iraqi interim leader enters election race
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi joined the race for Iraq&#39;s Jan. 30 elections at a Wednesday news conference meant to highlight his appeal to Iraq&#39;s diverse and sometimes fractious ethnic and religious groups.
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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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The Kurdish leader who hopes to become Iraq's next president pledged to try to bring the country's disaffected Sunni Arabs into the political process even though many of them stayed away from the polls in landmark elections.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shiite political groups formally announced today that they had formed an alliance to run in the national elections set for late January, saying their
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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Iraq's future political landscape began to take shape Friday, as a coalition led by powerful Shiite Muslim groups revealed a few of its candidates in next month's parliamentary election. They include former exiles, a prominent cleric and members of the interim government.
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Prime Minister John Howard will become the first of three allied leaders who launched the US-led invasion of Iraq to face voters, having announced Sunday that Australians will go to the polls on Oct. 9. The
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Fatah al-Sheik, an acolyte of Moktada al-Sadr, is the leader of a newly formed slate that is competing in Iraq's national elections.
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Iraq's most powerful-looking electoral  bloc unveiled a slate of candidates for its election campaign  on Thursday, throwing down a gauntlet to minority Sunni Arabs  who complain next month's vote will be marred by violence.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqâs interim President Ghazi al-Yawar insisted that crucial elections would go ahead as planned next month despite the sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks that have killed more than 90 people in three days.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that elections would go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence and said trials of ousted leader Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants would likely begin in October.
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Logistical preparations are under way to  allow at least a million exiled Iraqis to cast their votes in  the country's first free elections next month, a senior  organizer said on Thursday.
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Iraq's most powerful-looking electoral bloc unveiled a slate of candidates for its election campaign on Thursday, throwing down a gauntlet to minority Sunni Arabs who complain next month's vote will be marred by violence.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi joined the race for Iraq's Jan. 30 elections at a Wednesday news conference meant to highlight his appeal to Iraq's diverse and sometimes fractious ethnic and religious groups.
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A bombing in a Shi'ite city and an  outspoken attack on Iran by an Iraqi minister fueled fears of  sectarian strife as campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's  first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Washington -- Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi vowed to Congress on Thursday that his country will hold elections in January despite increasing insurgent violence, while President Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said elections will take place in January as scheduled, despite continuing violence in the country.