Violence greets opening of Iraqi parliament, seven truck drivers ...
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BAGHDAD : Mortar fire greeted the opening of Iraq&#39;s interim parliament -- dismissed by detractors as a weak rubber stamp for an unelected government but hailed by admirers as a step nearer democracy.
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Iraq's fractious ethnic and religious parliamentary groups agreed Sunday to open debate on a contentious Shiite-proposed draft legislation that will allow the creation of federal regions in Iraq, politicians said.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq arrived here today for a meeting with President Bush that will focus on finding a strategy to stop the violence in Iraq.
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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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Explosions reverberated across Iraq's capital and several other large cities Sunday, leaving an estimated 17 dead by early afternoon. But Iraq's first democratic election in nearly half a century was nevertheless well underway,  albeit unevenly, with visible jubilation in some areas and shuttered polling places in others.
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A BOMB near a Shiite shrine and an outspoken attack on Shiite Iran by an Iraqi minister fuelled fears of sectarian strife as campaigning began today for Iraq&#39;s first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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The day's violence underscored the rise in ethnic and sectarian tensions as the embattled nation heads toward elections in January.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim legislature convened yesterday for the first time, walled off behind US tanks as mortar rounds hit close to its meeting place.
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Members of opposition say they will sit on government benches at opening of parliament
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A suicide car bomber launched an attack  on Monday near a checkpoint on a Baghdad street leading to the  office of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party, wounding at least  seven policemen and three civilians, officials said.
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Some events and scattered violence across Iraq on Wednesday:
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As religious and political leaders met in Baghdad yesterday to discuss the selection of a 100-member interim assembly, a few kilometres away seven people were killed and 47 injured when a mortar shell exploded in a busy street.
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A suicide car bomber launched an attack on Monday near a checkpoint on a Baghdad street leading to the office of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party, wounding at least seven policemen and three civilians, officials said.
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Bahrain goes to the polls Saturday to elect a new Parliament in an atmosphere of growing sectarian division and disillusionment.
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U.S. leaders condemn killing of lawmaker BAGHDAD, Iraq  -- A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle Saturday, killing 14 people, including some who died when their homes collapsed in the blast.
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A bomb exploded Saturday in a Shiite district of Baghdad, killing nine and injuring 28 as Iraq&#039;s incoming prime minister prepared to present his Cabinet to parliament for approval, police said.
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Car bombs and clashes have shaken the Iraqi capital Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more. A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded more than 50 outside a photocopy shop