Iraq parliament passes new vote law

2009/11/23 09:38:36 @Reuters: World News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's fractious parliament on Monday approved an amended version of a law needed to hold a general election next year, but sidestepped a veto by Sunni Arab Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, lawmakers said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=VqNREAl1bL0:B2wOWJyeUGc:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=VqNREAl1bL0:B2wOWJyeUGc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=VqNREAl1bL0:B2wOWJyeUGc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=VqNREAl1bL0:B2wOWJyeUGc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=VqNREAl1bL0:B2wOWJyeUGc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/VqNREAl1bL0" height="1" width="1"/
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