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BAGHDAD (IRAQ): Iraqi President Barham Salih appointed Adnan al-Zurfi as the country’s new prime minister-designate in an effort to resolve a months-long political crisis. Al-Zurfi has 30 days to form his cabinet which would then go for a vote of confidence in Iraq’s fractious Parliament. The 54-year-old is a former governor of the holy Shia city of Najaf and heads the Nasr parliamentary…