Poll winners call for Iraqi unity
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A member of the Shia alliance which took most of the vote in Iraq calls for national unity to build a new state.
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LONDON -- The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence and voted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East, many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterday the national election was a step forward.
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Thousands of Iraqis voted abroad Sunday as their compatriots at home braved bombs and threats to go the polls in the first multi-party election in 50 years.
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Clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds swept to victory in Iraq's landmark elections, propelling to power the groups that suffered the most under Saddam Hussein and forcing Sunni Arabs to the margins for the first time in modern history, according to final results released Sunday.
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MANAMA  - Gulf leaders have called for all Iraqis to take part in next month&#39;s key elections, according to a resolution to be adopted at the end of their annual summit in Bahrain.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his country will remain united before Iraq&#39;s first election scheduled in January.
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Thousands of British-based Iraqis were turning out to vote as overseas polling began in Iraq's historic election, with many exiles gleeful at the chance to shape their country's future.
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The list of candidates representing Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims won the most votes in the nation's Jan. 30 election, followed by the Kurds and then Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's list, Iraqi election officials said Sunday.
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President Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi say democracy will prevail in Iraq and that free elections will take place as scheduled in January.
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Insurgents vowing total war on Iraq's  election killed 17 people on the eve of the vote on Saturday  and the country's president warned the violence would scare  most Iraqis away from the polls.
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Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots  in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots  in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said that his country was in a Âpolitical crisisÂ and called for unity among the countryÂs politicians to help curb the violence.
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Some couldn't read, but knew their party's identification number on the ballot. Others couldn't see, but were led to the polls by police. Across wide swathes of Iraq, especially in the southern Shiite and northern Kurdish areas, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday, expressing fierce determination and pride, together with hope that the election will improve their hard lives.
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On a day heralded as a new beginning for Iraq, many Iraqis were divided on whether the newly inaugurated national unity government will be able to curtail sectarian violence in the country.
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Iraq&#39;s president said yesterday the insurgency will have won if his country&#39;s January elections are postponed, and he asked the international community to help quell the surge of violence that some fear might force a delay.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 22  - Iraq and its neighbours on Monday threw their weight behind elections seen as crucial to the future of the violence-wracked country, at the opening of an international conference that was to put the United States at