AFP said early estimates by local leaders show Washington-ally Maliki’s party ahead in predominantly Shiite areas but former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiya is leading in Sunni strongholds.
Gadahn was detained by intelligence officials in the southern port city of Karachi, according to a report in the online edition of the Los Angeles Times. It was not immediately clear whether American officials were involved in the arrest.
Yemi Kosoko of the Indepent Nigerian News Network Channels said the dead consisted mostly of women and children, with bodies lined up on the streets of Dogo Nahawa village.
Indonesia’s Sumatra Island was rattled by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake on Friday, forcing residents in coastal communities to seek higher ground for fear of tsunamis.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved by the slimmest of margin a resolution that labels as genocide the death of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
The quake’s epicenter was found near the southern town of Jiashian, but shaking was felt as far as the capital Taipei, where earthquake-ready buildings reportedly swayed.