Iraq vote gets underway amid violence


Iraqis on Sunday started voting in their war-shattered nation’s second parliamentary election, as mortars and bombs rocked Baghdad.
Twelve people were killed and eight wounded in a Baghdad bomb attack Sunday as Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections, an interior ministry official said.
A total of 10 mortar blasts and four…

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