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<title>Split over law could delay Iraq elections</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180000435</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 06:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  presidential council vetoed a newly approved provincial election law, casting doubt on the possibility that  ...  under joint control of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, via a quota system. Talabani and Shiite  ...
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<title>Azerbaijanis in Kazakhstan Prepare for Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179999078</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 06:32 GMT</pubDate>
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... Kazakhstan, Almata, 24 July/ TrendNews, corr R. Mashadihasanli/  ...  on the debates on the upcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan to be held in October  ...
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<title>Iraq president promises to veto election law</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179998899</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 06:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  he would veto a law governing provincial elections scheduled for this year, making it all  ...  making it all but certain that the balloting will be delayed until 2009. The announcement  ...  the provincial council between Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmens; currently the Kurds control the balance of  ...
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<title>Kurdish journalist killed near northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179983205</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Kirkuk - a city of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen and others - is one of the  ...  from clearing the way for important provincial elections scheduled for later this year. The New  ...
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<title>Mongolia fails to swear in a new post-election parliament</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179971528</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Democratic Party leader Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj challenged the election result at the session and demanded the  ...  four-day state of emergency in the young, Central Asian democracy, which threw off Soviet influence in  ...
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<title>Iraqi Measure on Provincial Voting Is Vetoed</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179971365</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT</pubDate>
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... &apos;s president vetoed legislation on provincial elections on Wednesday, sending it back to lawmakers  ...   made up of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens  should be part of the Kurdish  ...
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<title>Power crisis in Iran despite oil riches</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179959499</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  may be politically difficult ahead of an election due in mid-2009, when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  ...  following a cut in gas supplies from Turkmenistan. People in northern regions had to queue  ...
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<title>Iraq Presidency Council vetoes provincial election bill</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179958478</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 00:09 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Iraq Presidency Council vetoes provincial election bill President Talabani objects to a provision  ...  under joint control of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens, via a quota system. Talabani and Shiite  ...  a Sunni Arab, endorsed holding a secret ballot on the Kirkuk provision. The Kurds and  ...
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<title>Iraq Presidency Council vetoes provincial election law</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179955852</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 23:36 GMT</pubDate>
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... Iraq Presidency Council vetoes provincial election bill President Talabani objects to a provision  ...  under joint control of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens, via a quota system. Talabani and Shiite  ...  a Sunni Arab, endorsed holding a secret ballot on the Kirkuk provision. The Kurds and  ...
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<title>Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Mother&apos;s milk of politics turns sour</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179949718</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 22:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  money to candidates in this 2007-08 federal election cycle? That&apos;s right, the financial services and  ...  which Payne offers an exiled leader of Kyrgyzstan meetings with such White House luminaries as  ...
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<title>No quick fix for Afghanistan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179941790</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 21:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for his candidacy in the US presidential election race by visiting Afghanistan, the state of  ...  with the outside world and open up Central Asia to India, via Iran. On the other  ...
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<title>Presidency council rejects Iraq bill</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179933081</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 20:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  three-member Presidency Council has rejected a provincial election bill a day after it was adopted  ...  US-led invasion of 2003, with Arab and Turkmen residents fearful they would be marginalised if  ...
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<title>Iraq elections risk delay after presidency council rejects bill</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179917221</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 19:17 GMT</pubDate>
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... Iraq elections risk delay after presidency council rejects bill  ...  US-led invasion of 2003, with Arab and Turkmen residents fearful they would be marginalised if  ...
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<title>Talabani rejects provincial election law</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179910185</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 18:26 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Iraqi President has rejected a provincial election law just a day after it was  ...  law. But some MPs charged that the ballot was carried out in secret, violating parliamentary  ...  Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and Turkmen. lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. Kurds  ...
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<title>Kurdistan&apos;s president visits Baghdad</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=179910184</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 18:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  President Barzani will visit Baghdad to discuss elections law. President of Iraq&apos;s Kurdistan region Massoud  ...  issues are settled; while Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen propose a division of the city&apos;s administration  ...  proposes an open slate system, which gives voters influence on the position of the candidates  ...
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