{"id":17131,"date":"2018-10-02T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2018-10-02T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:25:31","slug":"libya-reopens-tripoli-airport-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17131","title":{"rendered":"Libya reopens Tripoli airport again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1381106\/middle-east\" readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: Barham Salih, the veteran Kurdish politician, is set to become Iraq&#8217;s next president.<\/p>\n<p>\nSalih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),\u00a0faced a challenge from\u00a0Fuad Hussein of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). But Hussein withdrew from the second round of voting in parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, the official confirmation of Salih&#8217;s victory was delayed over a technicality related to the method of Hussein&#8217;s withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn previous votes, the two main Kurdish parties decided on a single candidate in advance but a failed\u00a0independence bid for the Kurdistan region last year led to an even deeper rift between them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe post of president is allocated to the Kurds under a 2005\u00a0agreement with Shiite and Sunni political forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Barham Salih, the veteran Kurdish politician, is set to become Iraq&#8217;s next president. Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),\u00a0faced a challenge from\u00a0Fuad Hussein of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). But Hussein withdrew from the second round of voting in parliament on Tuesday. However, the official confirmation of Salih&#8217;s victory was delayed over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}