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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Iraqi elections</title>
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		<title>After two Maliki terms and broken promises, wary Kurds keep “all options on the table”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the much anticipated Iraqi election results yet to announced, it is certain that the next government formation will be as fraught as 2010 and that Iraq will struggle to stitch together its falling pieces. For the Kurds, for all their criticism of incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Baghdad, they played a crucial hand [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Iraqis mark 3rd national elections and yearn for change &#8211; reconciliation, national unity and progress remains as elusive as ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a high turnout amidst an ongoing threat of violence, the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary elections, the first since the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq, were met with an air of optimism by Baghdad and international powers alike. However, any positive sentiment on the surface has to be taken with a big pinch of salt. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>With cabinet formation, Iraqi national elections and Kurdistan provincial elections, April set to prove a crucial month for Kurdistan Region</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[April will prove to be a pivotal month for Kurdistan. Campaigning is well underway for the Kurdistan provincial elections as well as the Iraqi national elections on 30th April 2014. Meanwhile, there is a renewed sense of optimism that the disappointing 6 month deadlock over government formation will be finally broken this month ahead of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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