{"id":139010,"date":"2014-09-08T20:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139010"},"modified":"2014-09-08T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:42:22","slug":"iraqs-parliament-approves-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/iraqs-parliament-approves-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s parliament approves new government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ctl00_cphBody_dvSummary\" class=\"articleSumm\"><strong>Haider al-Abbadi officially named Iraq&#8217;s new PM and most ministerial posts filled following political wrangling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s parliament has officially named Haider al-Abbadi the\u00a0country&#8217;s new prime minister and approved most of his minister candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The defence and interior minister posts were left empty after the vote. Outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was given the largely ceremonial\u00a0post of vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s vote was preceded by intense political bargaining and it remained uncertain until the last minute whether Kurdish MPs would back the government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in parliament, Abbadi pledged to resolve disputes with the country&#8217;s autonomous Kurdish region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/09\/iraq-government-20149819624345244.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haider al-Abbadi officially named Iraq&#8217;s new PM and most ministerial posts filled following political wrangling. Iraq&#8217;s parliament has officially named Haider al-Abbadi the\u00a0country&#8217;s new prime minister and approved most of his minister candidates. The defence and interior minister posts were left empty after the vote. Outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was given the largely ceremonial\u00a0post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}