Iraqi politicians break deadlock
Iraqi politicians have broken an eight-month political impasse by agreeing to take part in a new government headed by Nouri al-Maliki, the incumbent prime minister. Officials said on Wednesday that the Sunni-backed Iraqiya coalition that had been opposing the prime minister decided to join his government. “Finally, fortunately, it’s done. It’s finished. All the groups are in it,” Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish politician who took part in the nearly seven hours of negotiations, said. Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman and member of al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition, said Iraqiya had decided after extensive talks to accept the parliament speaker’s job and cede al-Maliki the prime minister’s…
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