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AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was on track to claim several key Iraqi provinces on Sunday, bolstering his chances of keeping his job after an election crucial to ending years of bloody unrest.

AP - Partial counts from all of Iraq's 18 provinces show the prime minister's bloc leading in the country's key parliamentary elections.

Reuters - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki edged ahead on Sunday in early results of an election Iraqis hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but the tight race indicated long and fraught negotiations to form a government.

AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc has a comfortable lead in the predominantly Shiite southern province of Basra, Iraq's third-biggest constituency, early results showed on Sunday.

Reuters - A list led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a wide lead in early results from the southern oil hub of Basra a week after Iraq's parliamentary election, the country's electoral commission said on Sunday.

AFP - An American soldier was killed and two wounded in a rocket or mortar attack on a US military base in central Iraq, a statement said on Sunday.

AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday comfortably emerged as the top vote getter in Baghdad, which has the most seats in parliament of any constituency, early results showed.

AFP - European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton will next week be urged to lodge a formal protest over “widespread fraud” during the Iraqi election count.