The final preliminary numbers have been held up because of what the government-run Independent Election Commission describes as "technical problems" with the official forms for the remaining untabulated two percent of ballot boxes.
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It often insists that foods already on supermarket shelves be treated like drugs and run through a gauntlet of preliminary studies before large-scale human studies can begin.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a preliminary agreement that will create a joint venture between the state-run South Oil Company and Royal Dutch Shell to develop natural-gas resources in the Basra region.