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Iraq moves towards January election date

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

Iraq on Monday moved towards finalising a date for its general election in January, a vote crucial to consolidating the war-torn nation's fledgling democracy and ensuring a complete US military exit. MPs on Sunday finally passed the electoral law that will govern ...

Obama hails Iraqi approval of 2010 election law

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

Iraq's fractious MPs have finally approved a law to govern the country's general election in early 2010, a move hailed by US President Barack Obama as an important step towards a lasting peace. The decision on Sunday paves the way towards finalising ...

Obama hails Iraq's approval of 2010 election law

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Iraq's fractious MPs on Sunday finally approved a law to govern the country's general election in early 2010, a move hailed by US President Barack Obama as an important step towards a lasting peace. The decision paves the way towards finalising a ...

Iraq approves 2010 election law

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Iraqi MPs on Sunday approved a law to govern the country's general election in early 2010, paving the way to finalise a date for a vote seen as crucial ahead of a US military exit from the country. The law was passed ...

Iraq approves 2010 election law: parliament

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Iraqi MPs on Sunday approved a law to govern the country's general election due in early 2010, paving the way to agree a date for the vote, said the parliament's vice president. Khaled al-Attiya said on state television 141 of the 195 ...

Iraq approves 2010 election law: parliamentary official

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Iraqi MPs on Sunday approved a law to govern the country's general election due in early 2010, paving the way to agree a date for the vote, said the parliament's vice president. Khaled al-Attiya said on state television 141 of the 195 ...

Women fight new battle in Iraq's insurgent corner

Reuters US Online Report World News 12 days ago

LATIFIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - In what was once one of Iraq's deadliest areas, women who survived sectarian carnage and insurgency now fight a new battle to feed families whose menfolk have been killed, jailed or left jobless. Violence has abated in the ...

Lots of success for Iraqi stamp auction

AFP Global Edition 16 days ago

Reckoned to be Iraq's top expert on cement, Anis Amjad does the rounds of factories during the week but nothing can stop him conducting the stamp auction in old Baghdad every Saturday. On that day the 56-year-old chemical engineer takes off his ...

Iran parliament speaker praises Iraq democracy

AFP Global Edition 16 days ago

Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday praised the fledgling democracy of post-Saddam Iraq and condemned the latest bloodshed in the country. "Iran strongly supports the democratic process and congratulates the Iraqi people for having found the way to democracy," Larijani said ...

Iraq parliament speaker calls for death penalty suspension

AFP Global Edition 19 days ago

Iraq's parliament speaker on Sunday called for a suspension of executions until after elections set for January, to ensure that political parties do not use them as issues during the election campaign. Iyad al-Samarrai put the request in to the justice ministry ...

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