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Baghdad, 11 March 2010 -- Top Iraqi politicians tangled on Tuesday over how and whether to count votes for 55 candidates who were barred from running a day before Sunday's parliamentary election.
Baghdad, 11 March 2010 -- Iraqi and UN officials say the first results from this week's parliamentary elections will likely be released on Thursday.
11 March 2010 -- Kurdish parties announced majorities for Kurds in Kirkuk and other disputed areas. Several hours after the polling stations closed in Kirkuk city, Kurdish people went on the street ...
11 March 2010 -- US President Barack Obama called Iraq's parliamentary election an "important milestone" in the country's history and praised Iraqis for braving the bombers to go to the polls.
Baghdad, 11 March 2010 -- Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing ...
11 March 2010 -- While preliminary Iraq election results aren't due out until Wednesday, turnout in Sunni provinces was as high as 75 percent, say news reports. Many Sunnis boycotted the last election.
11 March 2010 -- Of all the pictures I saw from the Iraqi elections last weekend, my favorite was on nytimes.com: an Iraqi mother holding up her son to let him stuff her ballot into the box. I loved ...
11 March 2010 -- Iraqi nationals in diaspora took part in their national election on 05, 06 and 07 of March 2010 in the UK. Some Iraqi nationals did not have any Iraqi documents to prove they were ...
was, 11 March 2010 -- The commander of US forces in Iraq on Tuesday predicted it would take "a couple of months" for leaders to form a post-election government but downplayed fears of instability.
Baghdad, 11 March 2010 -- Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official ...
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