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Early Iraq results favor secular challenger (AP)

March 26th, 2010

A woman holds a poster depicting hanged inked fingers to protest what she believed a fraud in the final parliamentary election results during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. Hundreds of residents protested near the Baghdad provincial council demanding a manual recount of the elections. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Results released so far in Iraq’s parliamentary election show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki trailing his main rival, former prime minister Ayad Allawi.


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Iraq to release full results from March 7 vote (AP)

March 26th, 2010

Supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chant anti-Baathist slogans at a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. Hundreds of residents protested near the Baghdad provincial council demanding a manual recount of the elections. The banners in Arabic read, 'No for return the Baath party and No for fraud.' (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq’s electoral commission insisted it will announce full election results as scheduled Friday, despite calls for a delay amid fears of violence over the tight race.


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Partial results show French left wins regions vote (AP)

March 21st, 2010

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, centre left, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the polling station after casting their votes for the second round of the regional elections, in Paris, Sunday, March 21, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party was bracing for a massive setback Sunday as frustrated French voters cast ballots in regional run-off elections likely to favor the opposition left and to set the stage for the 2012 presidential race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - France’s opposition Socialists and their allies handily defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservatives in regional elections Sunday, according to partial official results after a vote that helps set the…

Iraq’s Election Results: A Tight Race That Portends More Trouble (Time.com)

March 17th, 2010

Time.com - While Maliki and Allawi are neck and neck, neither will have enough votes to govern - or even, perhaps, to claim the right to form a coalition

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Early Iraq results: PM battling secular challenger (AP)

March 11th, 2010

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast in the national election in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Iraqi and UN officials say the first results from this week's parliamentary elections will likely be released on Thursday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Partial vote results in Iraq’s historic election released Thursday showed a tight contest between the nation’s prime minister and a secular challenger during a chaotic count that was…

Partial results from Iraqi vote show tight contest (AP)

March 11th, 2010

An electoral worker sorts through ballots cast in the national election in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Iraqi and UN officials say the first results from this week's parliamentary elections are likely to be released on Thursday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister’s bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each.


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First Iraqi vote results likely on Thursday (AP)

March 10th, 2010

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast in the national election in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Iraqi and UN officials say the first results from this week's parliamentary elections are likely to be released on Thursday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The top United Nations envoy in Iraq urged election officials Wednesday to release the results of this week’s historic vote as quickly as possible, saying Iraqis “have the…

Early results: Iceland voters reject debt deal (AP)

March 6th, 2010

Icelanders voting in a referendum in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday, March 6, 2010.   Icelanders are voting in a nationwide referendum on approving the use of taxpayers' money to repay binternational/b debts. Opinion polls suggest that a majority of Icelanders will vote 'no' on Saturday to the $5.3 billion deal to compensate Britain and the Netherlands for deposits lost in a collapsed Icelandic bank. That is expected to complicate Iceland's effort to recover from a deep recession and a banking collapse. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Still furious over the crippling aftermath of the global financial crisis, Iceland’s voters on Saturday resoundingly rejected a $5.3 billion plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands…