<div id="subtitle">AP Interview: US envoy says Iraq election on March 7 must be seen as fair</div><div><p>The U.S. ambassador to Iraq outlined twin challenges Monday to the unsteady democracy's elections next month: assuring that voters and rival factions accept the result and then making sure ...

<div><p>In what could be seen as a new front in cyber diplomacy or a naive gesture, depending on your point of view, the US embassy in Baghdad launched a Facebook page on Thursday to "reach out to Iraqis."</p><p>The page opened with a video posting by ambassador Christopher ...

<div><p>Iraqi leaders called on Monday for fundamental changes to be made to a huge public administration riddled with corruption, and for this to be accompanied by broader economic reforms.</p><p>Now that the "challenges of security and restoring stability have been identified," the new priority was state sector reforms ...

<div><p>Iraqi MPs on Sunday approved a law to govern the country's general election due in early 2010, paving the way to agree a date for the vote, said the parliament's vice president.</p><p>Khaled al-Attiya said on state television 141 of the 195 members present voted for ...