May 9, 2005	Monday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1426

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BAGHDAD, May 8: Iraq’s parliament approved six new ministers on Sunday hoping to fill the political void that has stoked the insurgency, but one minister turned down the job, leaving the cabinet incomplete. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari had announced the cabinet was complete after months of bickering to agree the balance of power between competing sectarian and ethnic blocs. But proposed human rights minister Hisham al-Shibli told Reuters he had been picked purely to placate Iraq’s restive Sunni Arab minority.