Iraq: Sadr urges others join protest amid parliament sit-in ...Kuwait

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Powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr on Sunday urged other factions to support a protest that has seen his supporters occupy Baghdad's parliament in a dispute over who should name the next prime minister. Nearly 10 months after elections, the oil-rich country is still without a new government due to the repeated failure of negotiations and the en-masse resignation last month of Sadr's bloc – the largest in parliament. Despite tear gas, water cannon and temperatures that touched 47C (116F), his followers stormed the legislature on Saturday after pulling down heavy concrete barricades on roads to Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, home to government buildings and emba

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