The Iraqi parliament has agreed to extend the deadline for provincial elections until January 31, 2009.
The decision came after months of heated dispute on the issue of power-sharing in the multi-ethnic of Kirkuk. Iraq's Kurds want the oil-rich city to be included in the autonomous Kurdistan region. Kurdish, Shiite, Sunni and Turkomen legislators agreed to form a parliamentary committee to Deutsche Bank to buy 30 percent of Postbank ...
15 die in suicide attack in Baghdad ...
Car bomb kills six in Baghdad ... review disputes regarding the northern city. The fact-finding committee is to present a report by March 2009.
(Deutsche Welle)
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