Iraq Cabinet approves draft of oil law
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet has approved a draft of a key oil law, and the Iraqi parliament was expected to begin debate on the measure Wednesday, an official said.
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The government on Thursday approved a new generation of nuclear power stations, describing evidence in support of the move as "compelling", the energy minister said.
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Russia's government on Monday approved the Finance Ministry's 2005 draft budget, which anticipates a surplus for the fifth straight year as the country enjoys growth fueled by high oil prices.
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BAGHDAD - A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown occurs just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here.
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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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BAGHDAD, July 3 -- Iraq's cabinet has again approved draft legislation establishing a framework to manage the country's vast oil resources, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday, but has not yet acted on a potentially more contentious companion law that would govern the distribution of oil...
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Iraqi MPs pass three important laws after weeks of delays and brinkmanship between rival factions.
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The resolution was approved 246 to 182. The Senate is expected to consider Saturday whether to move ahead toward a vote on an Iraq resolution.
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Iraq's oil ministry has awarded the country's first post-war oilfield development contracts to Turkish and Canadian firms, an oil official said on Thursday.
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Iraq's cabinet approved a draft law on Tuesday that would end the immunity from prosecution of foreign security contractors by scrapping a decree that Iraqis have complained amounts to a "license to kill".
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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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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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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Foreign ministers from 20 countries signed a 14-point statement Tuesday supporting the Iraqi interim government and elections planned for the end of January.
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The move marked a major agreement among the countryâs ethnic and sectarian political blocs on one of Iraqâs most divisive issues.
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Iraq's parliament might take a week to start debating a landmark draft oil law, officials said on Wednesday, as complaints from Kurdish authorities and Sunni Arab politicians signaled its passage could be rocky.
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Cabinet has approved the text of the European Constitution.
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The United States is getting ready now for the Iraqi government to get its house in order and pass a detailed law that will govern the future handling of its vast oil fields, which contain the world's third-largest proven petroleum reserves.