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Files: Iraqi deaths higher than US count (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

US soldiers take cover behind a wall as a cloud of smoke rises from an explosion of ordinances while on patrol in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad in 2008. Al-Jazeera on Friday released what it called AP - Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian…

India begins world’s biggest head count; 1.2 bn (AP)

April 1st, 2010

A nurse inspects a newborn baby at a hospital in Jammu, India, Thursday, April 1, 2010. India kicked off the national census of its billion-plus population Thursday with a 2.5 million strong army of census-takers fanning out across the country to conduct what has been billed the world's largest administrative exercise. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)AP - India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population Thursday in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a…

Challenger overtakes Iraq PM in overall vote count (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A secular coalition challenging the Iraqi prime minister in the country’s historic parliamentary elections has narrowly pulled ahead for the first time in the overall vote count, although…

Iraqi PM picks up oil-rich province in vote count (AP)

March 14th, 2010

An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Early results released by Iraq’s election committee show the prime minister ahead in the oil-rich Basra province, strengthening his lead in the country’s historic elections.


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Iraq’s PM leads in early Baghdad vote count (AP)

March 13th, 2010

An Iraqi man look up at a poster picturing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who has comfortably emerged as the top vote getter in Baghdad, which has the most seats in parliament of any constituency, early results have shown.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday.


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