Iraqis Begin Voting Amid Violence
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Explosions reverberated across Iraq's capital and several other large cities Sunday, leaving an estimated 17 dead by early afternoon. But Iraq's first democratic election in nearly half a century was nevertheless well underway,  albeit unevenly, with visible jubilation in some areas and shuttered polling places in others.
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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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Billboards urging Iraqis here to vote in their national elections Sunday loom over major intersections. Schools have become registration centers, their rows of tiny desks filled with Iraqis who have sought refuge here from war. Radio and television ads urge the exiles to vote.
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Millions of Iraqis turned out to vote  Sunday, defying anti-U.S. insurgents determined to drown the  historic poll in blood.
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Iraqis living abroad cast ballots in their country's election - two days before the poll opens in Iraq itself.
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Iraqi candidate sets conciliatory tone as violence picks up in the nation.
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Despite long drives and scant notice, scores of Iraqi expatriates began registering to vote from afar in Iraq's election on Jan 30.
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Iraqis living in Britain have begun registering for their country's January 30 elections, an emotional milestone for many.
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Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqis voted yesterday in historic national elections in unexpectedly large numbers, despite insurgent attacks on voters and polling stations that killed at least 35 people and injured at least 171. Nine attackers also died.
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Iraq chose Jan. 30 for its first democratic election in decades on Sunday, but violence in Sunni Muslim areas underlined the challenge of holding polls on time.
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Emotions ran high as hundreds of jubilant British Iraqis arrived on Friday to vote in their country's historic election.
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Iraqi election workers Tuesday began collecting the vote tallies from around the country, putting the finishing touches on the first free election in Iraq in half a century.
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Six weeks before Iraq's nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings that claimed dozens of lives and an ambush that killed three employees of Iraq's electoral commission.
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Iraqis in Australia danced in the  streets on Friday, twirling scarfs and singing, and proudly  displaying blue ink on their fingers which told the world they  had cast the first votes in Iraq's long-awaited election.
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Iraqis clash with demonstrators against the election in their homeland outside a Manchester polling station.
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The Iraqi election season officially kicked off yesterday, and the mudslinging started right away. Iraq&#39;s defense minister, an ally of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, blasted