BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Talks between Iraq's leading parties on forming a newgovernment have broken down, crushing hopes it would be in place before parliament,elected despite relentless violence, meets for the first time this week.
Officials from the Shi'ite alliance that won the most votes and the Kurdish bloc thatcame second said on Sunday they had failed to agree on two sticky issues -- distributingtop cabinet posts and extending the Kurds' autonomous region in the north.
Parliament is due to meet on Wednesday, more than six weeks after a landmarkelection that gave many in Iraq hope that a new authority would clamp down on suicideattacks, car bombs and execution-style killings by mainly Sunni Arab insurgents.
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