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Iraq’s new government is finally taking shape and could be unveiled this week, negotiators said on Tuesday, signaling a compromise among sectarian and ethnic factions to rally behind Shi’ite strongman Nuri al-Maliki. Guerrillas killed 19 people in one incident in Baghdad — gunmen shot five men police said were members of the Mehdi Army Shi’ite militia and then set off a car bomb in the same bus garage that killed a further 14 people and wounded more than 30. Full Story