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Kurdish leader blames Baghdad over wages as protests rage

by Samya Kullab
| December 9, 2020 7:30 AM

BAGHDAD (AP) — The prime minister of Iraq's northern Kurdish-run region on Wednesday blamed the federal government in Baghdad for delaying crucial budget transfers as violent protests over salary payments left eight dead in the past week.

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