Kurdish ministers suspend attendance at Iraq caretaker cabinet meetings
 

Kurdish ministers said on Thursday they were suspending their attendance at meetings of Iraq's national caretaker government. They said in a signed statement the move was in protest at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's branding of the Kurdish capital of Arbil a center for terrorism. A senior Kurdish official told Reuters that the officials would continue running their ministries, making clear that they "did **t pull out from the government." (Reporting By Ned Parker and Isra'a El Rubei'i in Baghdad and Isabel Coles in Arbil;

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