Hundreds of supporters of the powerful Iraqi Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr began a second day of camping at the country’s parliament on Sunday.
Despite tear gas, water cannons and baking temperatures that reached 47 degrees Celsius (116 degrees Fahrenheit), they stormed the compound on Saturday after knocking down heavy concrete barricades on the roads leading to the area Baghdad’s fortified green of diplomatic and government buildings.
Nearly ten months after the October elections, Iraq still does not have a new government despite intense factional negotiations.
euronews Gt
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