BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s parliament approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his new government on Tuesday, nine months after an inconclusive election left politics in limbo and delayed investments to rebuild the country after years of war. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad June 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen/Files) Lawmakers voted into office Maliki and a new slate of ministers, elevating Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani to deputy prime minister for energy and leaving in place Kurdish veteran Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari. Highlighting the ethnic and sectarian divides that pervade the war-ravaged country, parliament had to…
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Iraq approves new government with Maliki as PM