Iraq

First Iraqi vote results likely on Thursday (AP)

March 10, 2010

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 right to know as soon as possible what is the outcome of their choice."
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First Iraq vote results expected by Thursday: U.N. (Reuters)

Reuters - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said Wednesday.
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Britain begins inquiry into Iraq abuse claims (AP)

AP - Britain is opening an inquiry into claims that its soldiers murdered and abused civilians in southern Iraq in 2004.
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Iraqi parties both claim to be ahead in election (AP)

AP - The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the
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Baghdad holds key as Iraq awaits initial vote results (AFP)

AFP - Iraq awaited initial results Tuesday from polls touted as a test of its young democracy, with Baghdad holding the key as the prime minister's list and its top secular rival jockeyed for pole position.
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Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence (AP)

AP - They're back, on street corners in places Sunnis had thought were safe again: the Shiite militiamen who drove them from their homes in a bloody campaign that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.
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Maliki hints at US troop presence beyond 2011 (AFP)

AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hinted that US troops may remain in Iraq beyond the end of 2011, the deadline set under a bilateral agreement reached last year.
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British PM's Afghanistan warning as death toll surpasses Iraq (AFP)

AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday of a "very hard summer" in Afghanistan after eight soldiers were killed within 24 hours, taking the British military death toll higher than in Iraq.
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Pentagon: Iraq withdrawal has 16-month time frame (AP)

AP - Pentagon officials said Thursday they will be ready on Inauguration Day with plans for a quick pullout of U.S. combat troops from Iraq if Barack Obama orders one, as he pledged to do during his White House campaign.
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