#Iraq's Kurds head to the polls for parliamentary elections
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An Iraqi Kurdish man shows his ink-stained finger after voting during the Kurdistan’s legislative election at a polling station on 21 September 2013 in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Iraqi Kurds went to the polls on Saturday to vote for a new parliament at a time when their oil-producing region is seeking greater autonomy from Baghdad, against a backdrop of violent instability in the rest of Iraq and the wider Middle East. About (...)