© Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/04/2014. Sulaimaniya, Iraq. Officials count ballot papers in a school used as a polling station after voting closes for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary elections in Sulaimaniya, Iraqi-Kurdistan today (30/04/2014). <br />
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The period leading up to the elections, the fourth held since the 2003 coalition forces invasion, has already seen polling stations in central Iraq hit by suicide bombers causing at least 27 deaths. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP