Kurds Move Into 2nd Place in Iraq Vote Count
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A coalition of Iraq's main two Kurdish  parties has moved into second place behind a Shi'ite Islamist  alliance in the vote count following the Jan. 30 elections,  partial results released Monday showed.
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Kurds are on the move again in northern Iraq &#151; but this time they're not fleeing.
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Voter registration by Iraqis living outside their country has been far below expectations &#151; perhaps due to apathy or fear of reprisals &#151; but it has shown signs of increasing, prompting organizers to extend it for two days, they said Saturday.
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The U.S. State Department's No. 2 official discussed security preparations for this month's Iraq election during a Monday meeting with Turkish officials, who pressed him to move against thousands of autonomy-seeking Turkish Kurds based in northern Iraq.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is leading with 50.1 percent of the vote in Sunday&#39;s general elections, with almost 35 percent of the vote counted, the CNN Turk news channel reported.
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Turkey urged Iraqi electoral officials and the United Nations to examine what it claimed were skewed Iraqi elections results released Sunday, saying it was particularly concerned about vote tallies in the oil-rich and ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk.
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The final vote tally from Iraq's  election was due to be announced on Sunday, two weeks after the  historic polls that are expected to confirm Shi'ite political  dominance but marginalize the restive Sunni Arab minority.
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Under the watch of armed Western security guards and monitors, Iraqi election workers are doing a second count of the country's historic vote, tapping at computer keyboards and sifting through bags of tally sheets.
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BAGHDAD -- A Kurdish ticket pulled into second place ahead of the slate supported backed by US-backed Prime Minister Iyad Allawi in the race for National Assembly seats, after a surge of votes released yesterday from the Kurdish-governed area of the north.
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Returns from historic elections Sunday in Iraq continued to trickle out Friday, almost entirely from the largely Shiite Muslim provinces in the southern part of the country where a coalition of Shiite parties was demonstrating an expected dominance.
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Thousands of Kurds joined rallies across northern Iraq and marched to U.N. offices Thursday to protest a vote by Turkey's lawmakers that backed possible cross-border attacks against Kurdish rebel camps.
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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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Fewer than a quarter of eligible Iraqis living abroad sign up to vote in Sunday's election, officials say.
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Spinning a clear plastic drum filled with numbered balls, like a national lottery, Iraq's electoral commission determined Monday where parties contesting the Jan. 30 poll would rank on ballot papers.
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The registration deadline for Iraqis  voting abroad in their country's Jan. 30 election was extended  by two days on Saturday amid low turnout in some of the 14  countries where voter registration centers were established.
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Both parties appeared to be maneuvering to gain political advantage from a relatively peaceful vote in Iraq.
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The Electoral Commission of Iraq made the announcement after violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday.