Iraq parliament passes law to rehire Baathists
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Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday to ease restrictions on mostly Sunni Arab members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party returning to public life, one of the main political benchmarks set by the United States.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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Iraq's prime minister asked Parliament Thursday to approve six new Cabinet members to replace a group which resigned last month on the orders of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Britain's parliament passed legislation Wednesday allowing the Northern Ireland Assembly to be dissolved in January and an election held weeks later in hopes of reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration.
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US President George W Bush backs an Iraqi law to allow Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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The Afghan parliament passed a revised bill on Saturday that called for amnesty for groups involved in war crimes but also recognized the victims' right to seek justice, lawmakers said.
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"There are tribal sheiks out there who say 'Hey, just allow me to be the local security force. I don't care what you call me. ... You can call me whatever you want. Just give me the right training and equipment and I'll secure my area."  Parliament voted Monday in a closed session to remove the speaker after a series of scandals involving the controversial lawmaker, legislators said. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani will be replaced by another Sunni Arab, they said.The U.S. military, meanwhile, said three American soldiers were killed and six were wounded, along with an interpreter, Sunday when a suicide car bomber brought down a section bridge south of Baghdad on Iraq's main north-south artery.'The efforts to clear the road continue,' said Lt. Col. Randy Martin, a U.S. military spokesman. Read more
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Iraq lacks any true spirit of reconciliation despite parliament's decision to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party return to government jobs, the United Nations' Baghdad envoy said on Wednesday.
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CAIRO -- The Iraqi government is responsible for defusing the sectarian violence tearing the country apart and should redraft the constitution and rescind laws that give preferential treatment to Shi'ites and Kurds, Arab foreign ministers said in a statement yesterday.
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Iraq's parliament took tentative steps   on Tuesday to resolve a deadlock over autonomous regions, the   divisive issue that has split its politicians on sectarian   lines, as fresh clashes erupted in southern Baghdad.
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Iraqâs main Sunni Arab bloc has agreed to rejoin Iraqâs Shiâite-led government after key demands for returning were met, two officials from the bloc 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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Iraq's presidency council on Sunday issued a controversial law that allows lower-ranking former Baath party members to reclaim government jobs, the final step for the first U.S.-backed benchmark approved by parliament.
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Bosnia-Hercegovina's parliament approves a new government, four months after general elections were held.
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The Iraqi government is responsible for defusing the sectarian violence tearing the country apart and should redraft the constitution and rescind laws that give preferential treatment to Shiites and Kurds, Arab foreign ministers said in a statement Sunday.
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The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday which could see thousands of prisoners freed, one of the main demands of Sunni Arab politicians boycotting the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.