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Iraq’s ruling Shiite alliance leads in provincial elections – initial results

Parties that make up Iraq’s Shiite ruling alliance together took the single largest bloc of votes in Baghdad and most of the country’s southern provinces in provincial council elections, a Reuters tally of preliminary results showed. The…
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Iraq holds first provincial elections in a decade

Voting began in Iraq on Monday in the first elections for provincial councils in a decade, with the ruling Shiite Muslim alliance likely to extend its grip on power amid a boycott by populist cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, its main political…
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