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Iraq Assembly Mired in Disagreement

Iraq's new National Assembly holds its second session in Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone. So far the legislators have been unable to fill key positions or form a new government. Shiites and Kurds have negotiated for weeks without reaching a power-sharing agreement.

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Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.