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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BAGHDAD, Feb. 3 -- Controversial legislation that had been promoted as a way to return former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to government became law Sunday, Iraq's presidency council said, despite objections by Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni Arab government official.
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Iraq and Syria agreed to restore full diplomatic relations on Tuesday after a break of a quarter of a century, a move Iraq hopes may help stem what it says is Syrian support for militants.
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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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The head of Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Saturday the bloc had agreed to rejoin the Shi'ite-led government, but other senior officials said no final decision had been made.
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The bodies of servicemen killed in a RAF plane crash in Iraq return to the UK for a repatriation ceremony.
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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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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returned to Iraq on Saturday after spending a week in London for medical tests.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the south sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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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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At Iraq's polls, once persecuted Kurds won prominence in new assembly.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returned to Iraq on Saturday after spending a week in London for what his office had described as a routine medical checkup.
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Violence in Iraq is down, but Iraq needs to take advantage of that.
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The political bloc of fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Tuesday it had resumed participation in Iraq's parliament, suspended last month in protest over an attack on a revered Shi'ite mosque.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces allowed civilians to return to Tal Afar on Tuesday, signaling an end to a siege of the northern city that killed dozens of people and angered U.S. ally Turkey.
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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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Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has agreed to look into political demands of the main Sunni Arab political bloc which pulled out of his Shi'ite-led government last month, his office said.