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Sistani's representative urges major political blocs to form government	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 2:20 PM

Karbala, March 12 (AKnews)- The representative of Ali al-Sistani's called on the political blocs, especially the large ones to form a new Iraqi government soon and to stay away from the political pressure that accompanied the previous government, and called the Electoral Commission to speed up in the counting and sorting process and to depend on...

Counting and sorting process started in Lebanon	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 2:20 PM

Beirut, March 12 (AKnews)- The counting and sorting of Iraqi votes at the four polling stations in Lebanon started today morning."Counting and sorting process started at 9:30 of today's morning .... There is strong competition between Law State coalition and the Iraqi National Coalition", according to director IHEC office in the...

Sorting and counting process starts in Turkey	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 12:56 PM

Istanbul, March 12 (AKnews)- The counting and sorting process began in Turkey office, in Ankara and Istanbul stations in the presence of representatives of political entities and observers, according to the head of the IHEC office in Turkey Rafed al-Zaidi."Many political entities wondered about the reason for delaying the counting and...

	Counting and sorting start in Egypt	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 12:47 PM

Cairo, March 12 (AKnews)- The office of the Electoral Commission in Cairo started this morning the counting and sorting of ballot boxes in six voting centers in Egypt that spread in Cairo, Jizah, 6th of October, Alexandria, and Mansoura provinces, with 37 polling stations."As employees of the Commission, We started on Friday morning at...

Raids on Gaza, Palestinian injured	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 12:07 PM

Ramallah, March 12 (AKnews) A Palestinian was moderately wounded by Israeli raids on Gaza last night and early Thursday, according to a medical source in the Palestinian Health Ministry."A Palestinian was wounded in a raid on Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, while no one was injured in Rafah", says Muawiya Hassanein, director of...

Iraq: A race to victory before final results	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 10:41 AM

 Baghdad, March 12 (AKnews) - The entities and parties participating in the parliamentary elections are racing to declare victory in some provinces even before the announcement of the final results.Some of these lists resorted to satellite and media stations to promote their alleged victory, but the Electoral Commission said that these...

Iraqiya accuses the IHEC of "manipulating the results"	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 10:06 AM

Baghdad, March 12 (AKnews)- Iraqiya List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said that the Electoral Commission "manipulated" the electoral results at the counting and sorting centres, and neglected many votes for the list in Kirkuk province."The National Center responsible for electoral information manipulated the result of...

Kurdistan Alliance: "We'll get 8 to 10 seats in Nineveh"	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 10:01 AM

Nineveh, March 12 (AKnews) - Two Kurdish officials in Nineveh province said that Kurdistan Alliance List might get 8 to 10 seats in the province."I think that Kurdistan Alliance will be in the second place in Nineveh, and I expect that our share will be from eight to nine seats, according to our estimations and our political agents",...

Communist MP: Undecided voters voted for the large blocs	Read more
Friday, March 12th 2010 10:01 AM

Baghdad, March 12 (AKnews)- The large blocs succeeded in pushing undecided voters to vote for them, according to a deputy in the parliament."The large alliances underestimated the small alliances on the pretext that they would not be able to achieve what the voters want, because in any case they will not get the seats that qualify them to...

Political prisoners halt strike until solution	Read more
Thursday, March 11th 2010 6:45 PM

Sulaimaniyah, Mar. 11 (AKnews) – After the protest against the Kurdistan Parliament’s neglect of Article N.4, which provides for the compensation of former political prisoners, a group advocating the political ex-prisoners rights declared strike Wednesday the 3rd of March.  Now, after being visited by representatives of...