Secular challenger edges out Iraq PM in election (AP)

Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 1:32 pm  
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Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to his supporters after the full election results released Friday for Iraq's 325-seat parliament show Allawi winning 91 seats, edging out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's 89 seats in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)AP – Iraq’s secular former prime minister edged out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in parliamentary vote totals released Friday, upsetting the Shiite-backed premier’s re-election bid and earning the right to get the first shot at trying to form a government.


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Calif. voters could legalize pot in Nov. election (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 4:48 am  
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In this photo taken May 13, 2009 a grower holds a marijuana plant being grown for medical purposes inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif. In the mountain forests along California's North Coast, refugees from San Francisco's Summer of Love have spent four decades hiding from the law as they tended some of the world's most fabled marijuana gardens. After all those years, several statewide efforts to legalize marijuana could finally let those growers come out into the light. But at a community meeting in the heart of Northern California pot country on Tuesday, many growers said they were more worried about the cost of legalization to their bottom lines than about any federal raid. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP – When California voters head to the polls in November, they will decide whether the state will make history again — this time by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana for adults.


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Opposition to sue Myanmar junta over election laws (AP)

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 am  
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A Buddhist monk walks past a convoy of riot police deployed outside Yangon, Myanmar, City Hall on Friday, March 19, 2010. A day after Myanmar's ruling military junta announced electoral registration rules, security has been tightened in the town. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP – Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party will file a lawsuit against Myanmar’s ruling military government Tuesday seeking to revoke laws that bar the detained democracy leader and other opposition members from taking part in the country’s first elections in two decades.


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Iraqi president demands election recount (AP)

Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 5:34 am  
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An election campaign poster for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, is seen in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March. 17, 2010. A secular coalition led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi challenging the Iraqi prime minister in the country's historic parliamentary elections narrowly pulls ahead for the first time in the overall vote count. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)AP – Iraq’s president on Sunday called for a recount in this month’s parliamentary elections, which have turned into a tight race between the prime minister and a secular rival amid accusations of fraud. A new count could further extend political wrangling in the contentious race.


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Chaos marks Iraq election vote tally (AP)

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 2:40 pm  
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Iraqi journalists look at screens Tuesday, March 16, 2010, showing the partial preliminary results in Baghdad, Iraq. Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq's election. What they got Thursday, March 18, 2010 was a single CD containing the information and instructions to make copies themselves, prompting a mad dash to the nearest Internet cafe where they paid $1.20 each to find out who was ahead in the ballot count. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – Dozens of Iraqi journalists waited hours for results in Iraq’s election. What they finally got was a single CD containing all the information and instructions to make copies themselves, prompting a mad dash to the nearest Internet cafe where they paid $1.20 each to find out who was ahead in the ballot count.


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