Iraq Eases Curb on Ex-Officials of Hussein Party
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The measure, which will allow some former officials from the Baath Party to apply for government positions, is the first of the so-called political benchmark measures to pass after months of U.S. pressure for progress.
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Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a benchmark sought by the United States as a key step toward national reconciliation.
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Iraq&#39;s electoral commission is considering setting aside seats in the country&#39;s national assembly for Sunni Arab politicians and
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BAGHDAD -- A judge has dismissed counterfeiting charges against a senior political figure once considered a front-runner to become Iraq's leader, authorities said yesterday.
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Iraq has closed its borders with Iran and Syria as part of a security crackdown aimed at stopping foreign fighters and weapons entering the country, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 26 -- Iraq's top five political leaders announced an agreement Sunday night to release thousands of prisoners being held without charge and to reform the law that has kept thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's political party out of government jobs.
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Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has sharply reduced his workload in recent months, raising new questions about the health of the aged leader and the prospect of a dangerous power vacuum without a clear and dominant successor.
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BAGHDAD -- Maj. Gen. Hussein al-Awadi, a former official in Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, became the commander of the Iraqi National Police despite a 2003 law barring the party from government.
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Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician and former US favourite, has said that criminal charges against him in Iraq have been dropped.
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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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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The political bloc of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ended its month-long boycott of the Iraqi parliament, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, a political advance amid sectarian violence that included the slaying of 29 Shiites overnight by men dressed in military uniforms.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on former members of Saddam Hussein's disbanded army to join Iraq's new security forces in an effort to restore peace to the war-racked country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni Arab political faction, yesterday announced its withdrawal from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 30, saying its demands to delay the vote
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Iraq wants to tighten control over security contractors after a deadly shooting involving the US firm Blackwater, ending their long immunity from Iraqi prosecution, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political parties reached an agreement yesterday that was meant to prevent the country from splintering into a federation of three autonomous zones until at least 2008.
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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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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.