Kirkuk residents stock up ahead of Kurdish referendum
Posters in Kirkuk encouraging people to vote in the planned Kurdish independence referendum (AFP Photo/Marwan IBRAHIM)/ Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Residents of the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk north of Baghdad were stocking up with supplies on Saturday ahead of the planned controversial referendum on independence for Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. People in the city fear the situation could deteriorate if the plebiscite set for Monday goes ahead, as the oil-rich province is disputed between the federal government in Baghdad and the regional ...
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