Iraq postpones vote for president, delaying power-sharing deal

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament postponed voting for the country's president on Wednesday, delaying the formation of a power-sharing government urgently needed to confront a Sunni uprising. The advance by Sunni Islamist militants who seized swathes of northern Iraq last month has put Iraq's survival in jeopardy. Its politicians have been deadlocked over forming a new government since an election in April. (Reporting by Isra' al-Rubei'i and Maggie Fick; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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