Allawi edges ahead of PM again in Iraq election

Secularist Iyad Allawi edged ahead of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday in a neck-and-neck election race that has laid bare the ethnic and sectarian divisions threatening Iraq's fragile stability. The new results from Iraq's electoral commission, with about 93 percent of

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