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Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, who was re-elected president by the parliament, asked Al-Maliki to form an administration.
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Al Sadu, traditional weaving skills in the United Arab Emirates: Al Sadu is a traditional form of weaving practised by Bedouin women in rural communities of the United Arab Emirates to produce soft furnishings and decorative accessories for camels and horses.
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The ultra-conservative Salafist Al Nour party has seen members split off to form their own faction.
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Iraq's newly designated prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is now in a race to form a government.
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Talks continue to form a new government critics accuse Interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari of weak leadership.
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Max and Al are supposed to symbolize an engine and transmission mated together to form a highly capable powertrain.
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The U.S. and allied governments also are concerned about developments in Syria, worried that the Brotherhood or a more radical form of Sunni power could gain power as President Bashar al-Assad's rule weakens.
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But Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, is a stickler for democratic form.
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But if al-Maliki's Cabinet fails to gain support, someone else will be appointed to form a government, Pachachi said.
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Europe's largest powers appeared united in their goal of removing al Qaeda-linked militants from the West African nation, where Islamist rebels are fighting to form their own territory in the north.
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These successes form part of a trend that has seen a general waning of the influence that al-Qaeda and its offshoots have in a country that, until five years ago, housed more than a dozen jihadist training camps.
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