IRAQ-POLITICS-GOVERNMENT

Iraqi leaders (from L to R), Sunni parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, the president of the autonomous Kurdistan region Massud Barzani, President Jalal Talabani, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and former premier Iyad Allawi held a meeting in Arbil, the capital of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, on April 28, 2012. Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED

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