"The Kurds will be a part of this Iraq, this united, democratic federation of Iraq, " Talabani said.

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To talk about this, our guests are Rick Bloomingdale, he's the secretary treasurer of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Burt Siegel, he's the director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Philadelphia, Connie Guy is president of Lancaster Country Democratic Women's Association, and Hannah Sassaman is the program director at the Prometheus Radio Project.

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The bill, which began its parliamentary journey this week, has been rejected outright by Italy's biggest trade-union federation, the CGIL. That stance has put the leaders of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) between the rock of their historic ties to organised labour and the hard place of support for the government.

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In choosing the Democratic Liu from a crowded field of candidates in this year's election, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees underscored the populist tenor of his campaign.

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