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Iraq’s new government sworn in

(Reuters) — Iraq’s new government was sworn in on Monday (September 8) night in Baghdad in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise. The parliament approved the new government to be headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister. Abadi is a Shi’ite Islamist. He included members of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities in his cabinet. The swearing in of the government marks the start of Abadi’s uphill task to unify the […]