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| Iraq PM Nouri Maliki rejects calls for unity government | |
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| Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni rebels. | |
| Such calls represented a "coup against the constitution and an attempt to end the democratic experience", he warned. | |
| The US has told Mr Maliki that Iraq needs an administration that represents all its religious and ethnic groups. | |
| Government forces have been unable to recapture the vast swaths of territory seized by the rebels this month. | |
| More than 100 US military advisers assigned to help the Iraqi security forces are to start work on Wednesday. | |
| Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry has joined Nato leaders in Brussels to discuss the crisis in Iraq. |