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Iraq breaks impasse as Maliki to form government (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare.


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U.S. urges Iraq to form inclusive government (Reuters)

November 8th, 2010

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iraq on Monday to develop an inclusive power-sharing government, but would not confirm the country was close to striking agreement on…

Czech vote leaves unclear who will form next govt (AP)

May 29th, 2010

AP - The left-wing Social Democrats eked out a slim victory in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election Saturday but center-right parties won more votes overall, creating uncertainty over who will…

UK’s Labour woos Liberal Democrats to form govt (AP)

May 11th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown reads a statement to the media statement outside 10 Downing Street in London, Monday May 10, 2010, in which he said he intended to stand down as Labour Party leader.(AP Photo/Simon Dawson)AP - Britain’s pivotal third party kept its larger suitors — and the electorate — hanging Tuesday, opening formal negotiations with Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party to form a…

Pressure mounts in Britain to form new govt (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Britain's Conservative Party foreign affairs spokesman William Hague is surrounded by members of the media as he makes his way up Whitehall for a meeting with Liberal Democrat Party representatives in London May 10, 2010. Talks on forming a new government between the Conservative and Liberal Democrats made progress on Monday, a senior Conservative member said.  REUTERS/Paul Hackett   (BRITAIN - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)AP - Pressure mounted Monday on Nick Clegg, the leader of Britain’s third-place Liberal Democrats, to make a decision whether to join the Conservatives in creating a new government or…

Cameron asks Lib Dems to help form British govt (AP)

May 7th, 2010

Britain's Conservatives party leader David Cameron, back dropped by a picture of World War II era British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, reads a statement to members of the media in central London, Friday, May 7, 2010. Cameron  whose Conservatives outpolled ruling Labour party but fell short of winning a majority in Parliament,  claimed that voters had rejected Labour in Britain's national election Thursday. Britain's two main parties were locked in a power struggle Friday after an inconclusive election  with Labour's Gordon Brown suggesting he would try to form a coalition and Conservative leader David Cameron insisting the prime minister no longer had a mandate to govern. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Pool)AP - Conservative leader David Cameron claimed the right to govern Britain, appealing to the center-left Liberal Democrats on Friday to join him in forming a government and attempting to…

Cameron asks Lib Dems to help form UK govt (AP)

May 7th, 2010

David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, delivers his winners speech at the count in his Witney constituency, Oxfordshire, England, Friday, May 7, 2010. Polls in Britain's razor-edge election opened early Thursday in a race that is likely to reshape the country's politics in historic ways.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Conservative leader David Cameron says he is ready to govern Britain and is putting forward a “big comprehensive and open offer” to the Liberal Democrat party to help…

UK’s Brown might attempt to form coalition govt (AP)

May 6th, 2010

The leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, left, and his wife Sarah, right, are seen arriving to the count at  Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in the early hours of Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown indicated Friday he might attempt to form a coalition government, seeking to keep his Labour Party in power following an election in which…

Iraq’s Shiites unite to try to form new government (AP)

May 4th, 2010

Men gather in a cafe in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City to watch a televised press conference announcing the formation of a Shiite political alliance, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Iraq's two largest Shiite electoral blocs announced Tuesday they have formed an alliance that gives them a strong chance of setting up the next government, though they have yet to work out the contentious question of who would become prime minister. The alliance of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition and the conservative Shiite Iraqi National Alliance leaves them just four parliamentary seats shy of a ruling majority. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq’s two largest Shiite electoral blocs announced Tuesday they have formed an alliance that gives them a strong chance of setting up the next government, though they have…

Iraqi vote winner hopes to form government soon (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Supporters of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, seen in the poster, take to the streets after the results released by Iraq's election commission show a secular challenger has beaten the country's prime minister in parliamentary elections, positioning him to be the first to try to form a government in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. The narrow margin — 91 seats for Ayad Allawi's coalition to 89 for al-Maliki's alliance — sets the stage for months of political wrangling as the veterans of Iraq's young democracy attempt to win support for a majority coalition.  (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The top vote-getter in Iraq’s parliamentary elections says he wants to negotiate with all parties to form a government that can restore Iraq’s place in the Arab and…