For years, the oil-rich region of Kirkuk has been on everybody's radar in Iraq, given the ongoing tug-of-war over its future between Arabs and Kurds. This week, however, Kirkuk attracted plenty of attention for a very different reason.
The Police Department came out with a statement calling for orderly traffic, noting that car accidents were being recorded at an interval of one per hour due to a poster plastered all over the city's walls that showed an attractive woman who is running for the parliamentary elections scheduled for March 7.
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