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Iraqi Kurds vote for new parliament

Iraqi Kurds voted on Sunday for a new parliament in their autonomous region, which is mired in an economic crisis a year after an independence referendum that infuriated Baghdad.

A Kurdish woman in traditional clothes casts her ballot during the Kurdistan parliamentary election at a polling station in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, 30 September 2018.
A Kurdish woman casts her ballot during the Kurdistan parliamentary election. Source: AAP

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