No quick debate in Iraq parliament on oil law
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Iraq's parliament may 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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Our position is: Thorough debate of US policies in Iraq is needed between now and Election Day. After months of battling over a war that ended 30 years ago, the presidential candidates have finally begun to
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BAGHDAD -- Legislation to manage Iraq's oil industry won Cabinet approval yesterday and could go before parliament for ratification within days, but political wrangling raised the possibility of delays in passing the long-stalled measure.
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Despite talk of an energy crisis and the need for independence from foreign oil, Congress seems to be in no mood to open more of the country&#039;s coastal waters to energy development.
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BAGHDAD June 11--- Iraq's parliament voted today to oust its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani, a day after one of his bodyguards allegedly roughed up another lawmaker, legislators said.
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The speaker of Iraq's fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections.
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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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Iraqi MPs pass three important laws after weeks of delays and brinkmanship between rival factions.
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The fight over the legislation is at the heart of the critical and divisive debate over whether Iraq should be broken into autonomous states.
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The Iraqi parliament renewed the emergency powers of the national unity government for a further 30 days on Monday, after only a brief debate.
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Iraqi officials said Friday that a U.S.-backed draft oil law will soon be returned to the Cabinet for approval after Kurds agreed to a compromise revenue-sharing measure. But they said many key sticking points remain unresolved &#151; and not even addressed &#151; in the watered-down legislation.
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The debate in Washington over troop numbers is intense. But in Baghdad, there's been little sense of alarm or urgency among the Iraqi politicians who would have the most to lose if the United States decides to begin a major pull back.
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Iraq's leaders stepped back from the   brink of a political crisis on Sunday in the hope of preventing   a dispute over local control of oilfields erupting into all-out   sectarian civil war.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreement on nearly every law that the United States has demanded as a benchmark, despite heavy pressure from Congress, the White House, and top military commanders. With only three months until reports on progress are due in Washington, the deadlock has reached a point where many Iraqi and US officials now ...
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Among the political benchmarks the Bush administration has embraced to chart progress in Iraq, approval by the Iraqi parliament of a hydrocarbon law looms large. Oil provides 95 percent of Iraq's national income, making the recovery of the country's oil sector critical to reducing the United States'...
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LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair came under intense attack from rivals Wednesday in a parliamentary session on Iraq that demonstrated the potency of the issue and Blair&#39;s inability to turn the national agenda to domestic matters.
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Ayad Allawi was handpicked by Washington as prime minister, but to stay in office he must get majority support in the parliament that will be elected in two weeks. That won't be easy.