Poll winners call for Iraqi unity
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A member of the Shia alliance which took most of the vote in Iraq calls for national unity to build a new state.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.
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Description: After two months of negotiations, a major Iraqi electoral alliance forms, dominated by the country&#39;s main Shiite political parties.
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Iraqi leaders have agreed on a unity   government to be presented to parliament on Saturday,   negotiators said on Friday, adding that the key interior and   defense ministry portfolios would be filled later.
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Several political groups in Iraq are calling for the postponement of national elections, scheduled for January 30. The parties, mostly Sunni Muslim, Kurdish and secular groups, cited security
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Iraq's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed Sunday to consider amending the constitution and begin debating legislation to create a federated nation, while the Shiite prime minister appealed for an end to violence during Ramadan.
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Twenty nations, including the United States, Iraq's neighbors and Arab countries opened a conference on Iraq on Monday, urging the government to meet with its opponents to get them to take part in the general elections.
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Members of Britain's 250,000-strong Iraqi community, voicing hopes for lasting peace in their homeland, stepped forward to register to vote in Iraq ( news - web sites )'s first democratic polls in half a ...
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AMMAN, Jordan  - Thousands of Iraqis voted abroad  Sunday as their compatriots at home braved bombs and threats to  go the polls in the first multi-party election in 50 years.
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More than 1.7 million Iraqi Kurds have signed a petition calling for a referendum on whether northern Iraq should become an independent Kurdish state.
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BRUSSELS - European Union leaders achieved a facade of unity for long enough at summit talks last week to claim that Iraq was no longer cause for the unparalleled acrimony of recent times.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi politicians and US officials have begun courting disaffected groups that boycotted Iraq's Jan. 30 election, hoping that their involvement in the political process would fracture the bloody insurgency and unite the country behind the new government.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key laws that Washington views as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
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Al Qaeda vowed to pursue "holy war" in  Iraq Monday after failing to wreck elections, and Prime  Minister Iyad Allawi urged rival ethnic and religious groups to  unite after the first multi-party vote in 50 years.
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President Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi say democracy will prevail in Iraq and that free elections will take place as scheduled in January.
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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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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his country will remain united before Iraq&#39;s first election scheduled in January.