Hundreds of frustrated Iraqis have stormed the country’s parliament in protest over the country’s political deadlock. Iraq has gone a record 290 days without a government – and tensions boiled over when the supporters of a populist Shiite cleric were angered by the nomination of an Iran-backed candidate for prime minister. Tahlea Aualiitia reports.
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