BAGHDAD- Iraqi authorities counted votes on Monday, a day after a parliamentary election that Islamist militants tried to disrupt with attacks that killed 38 people.Preliminary results were not expected for another day or two in a poll that Iraqis sickened by years of violence hope will help bring stability and better governance as U.S. troops leave.

London- The voting outside of iraq started yesterday with many irregularities and conflicting rules. This led in many countries that host a large Kurdish and Iraqi community. In Manchester the authorities were forces to close the polling station after some fights between the voters and the IHEC employees. In Wembly London the situation was not better, where Police arrested a dozen of voters and some epmloyees of IHEC. [VIDEO]

Amsterdam- In an interview with Radio Curdonia, Michael Rubin a resident scholar at American enterprise institute gave his insight about the developments in Iraqi Kurdistan. Michael Rubin spent several years teaching at Iraqi Kurdistan universities. He made the headlines after his critical essay in Washington Post, criticizing Kurdish leadership and the corruption practices of their party.
 Audio Michael Rubin

LONDON – For the new Gorran movement led by Nawshirwan Mustafa the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections will prove whether or not it could come to regard itself as en established party within the framework of Kurdish politics.

(Audio) Raz Jabary

AMSTERDAM-Tonight the guest of Radio Curdonia, Gorran Kurdish parliamentarian Adnan Osman. He has made controversial statements around the Kurdish forces Peshmergas. He stamped them as militias, according to the ruling parties KDP and PUK.

SULEIMANI- The situation is tensed in Suleimani after some fights erupted yesterday between Gorran and PUK supporters. The contra-terror unit started shootings to disperse the crowed wounding four Gorran supporters and arrested more.

Suleimani- On Tuesday, Feb 9th, 2010, the investigative Kurdish journalist and the editor in-chief of the bi-montly Cihan magazine Mr. Nabaz Gorran was subjected to harassment in the city of Sulaimaniyah, reported Hawlati.info in Kurdish earlier this week.

Ever since the historic election of Gorran representatives to the Kurdistan National Assembly in July 2009, a tidal wave of change has swept the Kurdish political scene. The Gorran (‘Change’) movement came from nowhere to win 25 seats and it has gained the support of hundreds of thousands of people across Kurdistan.

Washington- Masoud Barzani KRG's president visited Washington in a series of meetings Obama is conducting with Iraqi leaders. In the meetings US officials showed their discontent for the absence of KRG's current prime minister Dr. Barham Saleh. He is considered as one of the few capable politicians of Kurdistan and Iraq.