Baghdad - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki won a majority of seats in Iraq's Basra province and a near majority in the capital of Baghdad, Iraq's electoral commission announced on Thursday.
In the southern province of Basra, al-Maliki's State of Law coalition won 20 out of the province's 35 seats, Iraqi news agency the Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.
The province, known for its oil, is an important victory for the Iraqi premier.
Baghdad - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki won a majority of seats in Iraq's Basra province and a near majority in the capital of Baghdad, Iraq's electoral commission announced on Thursday.
In the southern province of Basra, al-Maliki's State of Law coalition won 20 out of the province's 35 seats, Iraqi news agency the Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.
The province, known for its oil, is an important victory for the Iraqi premier.
Baghdad - The Iraqi parliament is expected to choose a new speaker in a run-off vote on Thursday after lawmakers failed on Wednesday to end an impasse that has paralysed the assembly since late December.
Iraqi law gives Sunni lawmakers the responsibility of nominating the speaker of the parliament, but Sunni parties again failed to agree on a nominee Wednesday, despite increasing pressure from the rest of the Iraqi government to end the dispute.
"We had hoped to reach an agreement among the factions on a single candidate," deputy speaker Khalid al-Attiya told reporters on Wednesday.
Baghdad
- The trial of an Iraqi journalist who famously threw his shoes at
former US President George W. Bush in December opened in Baghdad on
Thursday, and was later adjourned.
Montazer al-Zaidi, a journalist for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya
television station, arrived in court clad in a suit and draped in an
Iraqi flag.
People in court waved Iraqi flags as the 30-year-old arrived, and
cheered. A crowd gathered outside the court also waved Iraqi flags, and
Iraq - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived on Wednesday in Iraq's northern Kurdish Autonomous Region in a visit expected to promote business and cultural ties with the relatively peaceful region.
Steinmeier is scheduled to open a German consulate and school in the predominantly Kurdish city of Arbil, where security is better than in the rest of Iraq.
He visited Baghdad on Tuesday in the first trip by a high-ranking German official since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Baghdad - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki won a majority of seats in Iraq's Basra province and a near majority in the capital of Baghdad, Iraq's electoral commission announced on Thursday.
Baghdad - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki won a majority of seats in Iraq's Basra province and a near majority in the capital of Baghdad, Iraq's electoral commission announced on Thursday.
Baghdad - The Iraqi parliament is expected to choose a new speaker in a run-off vote on Thursday after lawmakers failed on Wednesday to end an impasse that has paralysed the assembly since late December.
Baghdad
Iraq - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived on Wednesday in Iraq's northern Kurdish Autonomous Region in a visit expected to promote business and cultural ties with the relatively peaceful region.
