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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NAJAF, Iraq : Iraq&#39;s top Shiite Muslim clerics, back in control of Najaf&#39;s Imam Ali shrine after a four-month militia occupation, met amid the ruins of the city as life spluttered back to normality.
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The measure, which will allow some former officials from the Baath Party to apply for government positions, is the first of the so-called political benchmark measures to pass after months of U.S. pressure for progress.
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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.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 -- Nearly 50,000 Iraqi refugees returned home from Syria in the final 3 1/2 months of 2007, the latest sign of diminishing violence in this war-pocked country, according to new data from relief workers.
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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 an overture to disaffected Sunni Arabs aimed at reducing sectarian violence.
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Law promoted as way to return former members of Hussein's party to public life may cost jobs.
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The bodies of two British newsmen who were killed in Iraq while working for US broadcaster CBS were brought back to Britain in a ceremony attended by family, friends and work colleagues.
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BAGHDAD, July 19 -- Iraq's largest Sunni political group announced Thursday that it will end its boycott of parliament, returning the legislative body to full strength for the first time in five weeks.
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Iraq's prime minister urged ministers from the main Sunni Arab bloc on Saturday to return to their vacant government posts, suggesting he would soon form a new cabinet if they refused.
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BAGHDAD: UN nuclear inspectors are welcome to return, an Iraqi minister said on Tuesday in response to concerns of an âapparent systematic dismantlementâ of Saddam Husseinâs once-vigorous nuclear programme.
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Iraq's leaders stepped back from the   brink of a political crisis on Sunday in the hope of preventing   a dispute over local control of oilfields erupting into all-out   sectarian civil war.
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Syria and Iraq are to restore diplomatic relations, after a break of more than 20 years, it is announced in Baghdad.
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A measure to allow former officials from Saddam Husseinâs party to apply for government jobs came after months of U.S. pressure.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political parties reached an agreement yesterday that was meant to prevent the country from splintering into a federation of three autonomous zones until at least 2008.
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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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Iraq said yesterday it had captured a top foreign-based supporter of the anti-government insurgency and would begin to try former figures of Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime next week.