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Biden to Iraq leaders: Settle election law dispute
Baghdad :: Iraq | 2 days ago
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Vice President Joe Biden is encouraging Iraq's leaders to resolve differences and agree to legislation allowing a national vote to take place next year...Biden's office says he encouraged the leaders to finalize an arrangement that would allow national...
Tags: Al-Iraqiya, elections law, Joe Biden, parliamentary elections, vice president, Iraq, Baghdad, Politics, Politics of Iraq, War Conflict, Fertile Crescent, Occupation of Iraq, Tariq Al-Hashimi, Government of Iraq from, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Iraqi Kurdistan, Nouri al-Maliki, Massoud Barzani, Barack Obama, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Joe Biden presidential campaign, Levant, Political positions of Joe Biden, Geography of Iraq, Kurdish people, Jalal Talabani, Iraq conflict, Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement referendum, Government of Iraq, Ammar al-Hakim, Modern history
Oldest woman on Earth now lives in Turkey
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 3 days ago
Credibility Oldest woman on Earth now lives in Turkey Published 27 November, 2009, 02:07 The head of the birth registry directorate in the remote region of southeast Turkey discovered that a woman from the Kurdish village of Besiri could possibly be the oldest woman...
Tags: Earth, Turkey, oldest woman, Burkina Faso, Lon, Environment, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdistan, Ethnic groups in Syria, Turkish Kurdistan, Kurdish people, Ethnic groups in Turkey
Iraqi elections: messy, factionalized, and ultimately democratic
Kirkūk :: Iraq | 3 days ago
Credibility In the second parliamentary elections of Iraq’s new constitutional order, slated for January 2010, the stakes are high...Will a lame-duck government, the political flux of governing coalition formation, and the planned drawdown of over half of the United...
Tags: Iraqi Parliament, Kirkuk, Iraqi Army, elections law, voter rolls, provincial elections, open list, central governing, law debates, Iraq, Kirkūk, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani, Politics, Politics of Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Government of Iraq, Kirkuk Governorate
Sunni leader holds fate of Iraqi election bill
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 days ago
Credibility The fate of Iraq's newly revised election law again hinges on the approval of the country's Sunni Arab vice president, who is under pressure to sign the much-contested plan. The new bill has been approved by the other two members of the presidency council.
Tags: Iraqi, elections law, Iraq, Baghdad, Politics, Tariq Al-Hashimi, Occupation of Iraq, Government of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Government of Iraq from, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, U.S.￢ﾀﾓIraq Status of Forces Agreement, Hashemi, Fertile Crescent, Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurdistan, Politics of Iraq
Joint drills help Iraq Kurd, Arab police thaw ties
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 days ago
Credibility Kurdish and Arab policemen are taking slow steps toward ending an enmity that threatens to tip Iraq into civil war. Bitter disputes over land and oil between Kurds and Arabs have led to tense standoffs between their respective security forces, leaving...
Tags: Iraq Kurd, Iraqi, Arab, U.S, Iraq, Baghdad, Fertile Crescent, Kirkuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, Assyria, Kurdish people, Politics of Iraq, War Conflict, Peshmerga
U.S., EU must tackle Syria on Kurds' plight: group
Damascus :: Syria | 4 days ago
Credibility The report said a presidential decree last year placed controls on transferring property in areas inhabited by Kurds. Also in 2008 security forces killed three Kurds celebrating the Kurdish Nowruz new year. In 2007, security forces fired at Kurdish crowds...
Tags: Syria, security forces, Damascus, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Politics, Social Issues, Ethnic groups in Syria, Kurdish people, Kurds in Syria, Ethnic groups in Turkey, Levant, Kurdish language, Iraq
Ankara at odds with U.N. over Kurds
Ankara :: Turkey | 4 days ago
Credibility Ankara will not abide by international law when considering the return of Kurds from refugee camps in northern Iran, interior officials said. Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Kurds in the Makhmour refugee camp need approval from the Iraqi government...
Tags: Turkey, Ankara, Fertile Crescent, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Iraqi Kurdistan, Politics, Abdullah ￃﾖcalan, Kurdish people, Massoud Barzani, Recep Tayyip Erdoￄﾟan, Social Issues, Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Kurdistan, Ethnic groups in Syria, Turkey￢ﾀﾓKurdistan Workers' Party conflict
Turkey and UN once more in quarrel over Makhmour camp
İstanbul :: Turkey | 6 days ago
Credibility Turkey and UN once more in quarrel over Makhmour camp The return of Turkish citizens of Kurdish descent from the Makhmour refugee camp -- built by the United Nations for refugees in 1998 -- who went to Iraq in 1996 due to increasing acts of terrorism...
Tags: Turkey, makhmour camp, İstanbul, Politics, Social Issues, War Conflict, Fertile Crescent, Kￄﾱzￄﾱlcahamam, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Forced migration, Right of asylum, Demography, Ministry of the Interior, Jalozai, Kurdistan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Refugee, Beￅﾟir Atalay, Population
Iraqi VP Threatens Veto of Election Law
Baghdad :: Iraq | 6 days ago
Credibility The head of Iraq's electoral commission says failure to pass the law will delay elections by "at least a month" from their original January date. Edward Yeranian Cairo 24 November 2009 Photo: AFP Tariq al-Hashemi (file photo) Share This Iraq's Sunni...
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Iraqi MPs amend election law
Baghdad :: Iraq | 7 days ago
Credibility However, the new version of the law, which was sent to the three-man presidency council for approval on Monday, fails to address the concerns of Tariq al-Hashemi. Hashemi said the first version of law, which was passed on November 8 after months of wrangling,...
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