BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi leaders held their first formal talks in several days as Washington kept up pressure on them to form a national unity government to help quell sectarian and insurgent violence that saw 29 more people killed on Friday.
Twenty deaths were reported in Baghdad alone. In one attack, gunmen shot dead four workers in a bakery and left a booby trap package that killed a policeman when he opened it.
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