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Children walk by a machine-gun near election centre in Baghdad April 20, 2013. Iraqis voted for provincial councils on Saturday in their first ballot since U.S. troops left the country, a key measure of political strength before parliamentary elections next year. Iraqi politics are deeply split along sectarian lines with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government mired in crisis over how to share power among Shi'ites, Sunni Muslims and ethnic Kurds who run their own autonomous region in the north. Violence — Children walk by a machine gun in Baghdad, April 20, 2013. — REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili

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