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ByHamzaHendawi The Associated Press BAGHDAD Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nation- wideelectionsinceU.S.troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki con- fident of victory and even of- fering an olive branch to his criticsbyinvitingthemtojoin him in a governing coalition. Buthisoptimismwilldolit - tle to conceal the turmoil and violence that still stalk Iraq in the eight years he has held of- fice, with the looming threat of the country sliding deeper into sectarian bloodshed and risking a breakup. "Ourvictoryis certain,but we are talking about how big is that certain success," he said after voting in Baghdad. "Here we are today, suc - cessfully holding the ... elec- tion while no foreign troops exist on Iraqi soil. I call upon all the other groups to leave the past behind and start a new phase of good brotherly relations,"saidal-Maliki,who faces growing criticism over government corruption and persistent bloodshed as sec - tarian tensions threaten to push Iraq back toward the brink of civil war. Theelectionwasheldamid a massive security operation, with hundreds of thousands of troops and police deployed across the country to protect polling centers and voters. ThestreetsofBaghdad,acity of 7 million, looked deserted. Police and soldiers manned checkpoints roughly 500 me - ters (yards) apart and pickup trucksmountedwithmachine guns roamed the streets that were otherwise devoid of the usual traffic jams. Scattered attacks took placenorthandwestofBagh - dad, killing at least five peo- ple and wounding 16. Road- side bombs killed two women and two election workers in the northern town of Dibis. Al-Maliki's upbeat com- ments sharply contrasted with voters' sentiments, whichrangedfromdespairto a gritty resolve to participate despite the threat of violence. "I see this election as the last chance, my last bet on Iraq. If things continue to be the same, I will leave, and this time for good," said Saad Sadiq Mustafa, a 55-year-old retired army officer who fled with his family to neighbor - ing Syria to escape the worst Sunni-Shiite violence of 2006 and 2007 and came home in 2008. A Sunni Arab and a fa - ther of four from Baghdad, Mustafa voted for Ayad Al- lawi, a secular Shiite who be- came Iraq's first post-Sad- dam Hussein prime minister in 2004. "We are living in a diverse country in which only secu- lars can maintain a balance between all ethnic and reli- gious groups," he said. Al-Maliki's State of Law bloc was widely expected to win the most seats in the 328-member parliament but fallshortofamajority,accord - ingtoanalysts.Thatwouldal- low al-Maliki to keep his post only if he can cobble together a coalition — a task that took nine months after the last election in 2010. Even some of his onetime Shiite backers accuse him of trying to amass power for himself, but many in the ma - jority sect see no alternative to the 63-year-old al-Maliki or are looking for a succes- sor who would follow in his footsteps and jealously guard Shiite political domination. MiDDle eAst Iraqis vote in an election without foreign troops KarimKadim—TheassociaTedPress an iraqi woman casts her vote inside a polling station for parliamentary elections Wednesday in Baghdad. iraq is holding its third parliamentary elections since the U.s.-led invasion that toppled dictator saddam hussein. Washington 78/54 New York 73/54 Miami 87/76 Atlanta 70/50 Detroit 57/43 Houston 76/49 Chicago 51/42 Minneapolis 51/39 Kansas City 55/37 El Paso 68/48 Denver 60/37 Billings 70/4 6 Los Angeles 96/63 San Francisco 78/53 Seattle 87/51 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans: 0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, showers, thunderstorms, rain, snow flurries, snow,ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Africa CarsonCity Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: FRIDAY 89° 53° SATURDAY 81° 50° Pa rtly sunn y Partly sunny and very warm SUNDAY 69° 51° Pa rtly sunn y; br ee zy , cooler MONDAY 69° 49° Mostly cloudy , sho we rs around TODAY 93° 52° Mostly sunny. Clear to partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 91° Low ........................................................................ 55° Normal high ......................................................... 76° Normal low ........................................................... 50° Record high ............................................. 95° in 1945 Record low .............................................. 36° in 1967 Humidity noon today ........................................ 21% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.29" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.56" Season to date ................................................ 11.80" Normal season to date .................................. 22.82" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ..................................................... Moderate Yuba City ............................................. Not available Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ...................... High Mold .........................Low Trees ...................... High Weeds ..................... Low 7 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 6:09 a.m. 8:04 p.m. 8:01 a.m. 10:43 p.m. Friday 6:08 a.m. 8:05 p.m. 8:50 a.m. 11:32 p.m. 13 hr., 55 min. May6 First May14 Full Last May21 New May28 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.20 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.50 ....... -0.20 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.30 ....... -0.10 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.90 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.30 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.10 .......none BlackButte ....................458.12..............77,527 .....54.0% LakeOroville..................770.61.........1,877,662 .....50.2% LakeShasta ...................979.65.........2,409,200 .....52.9% LakeTrinity..................2285.40.........1,296,739 .....49.0% Whiskeytown...............1209.02............237,959 .....98.7% Weather Trivia ™ What is solar summer in the Northern Hemisphere? The 1/4 year with the most sunlight; early May through early August Today Friday Anaheim 99/56/s 95/59/s Bakersfield 92/65/s 91/64/s Chula Vista 91/60/s 87/61/s Crescent City 61/47/s 58/48/pc Death Valley 98/56/s 105/71/s Eureka 65/46/s 60/46/pc Fremont 86/54/s 77/53/s Fresno 96/66/s 96/66/s Glendale 98/60/s 96/59/s Huntington Beach 90/60/s 84/61/s Irvine 93/58/s 90/60/s Lake Tahoe 70/33/s 71/37/s Long Beach 94/55/s 91/61/s Los Angeles 96/63/s 92/60/s Mammoth Mountain 71/39/s 73/36/s Modesto 92/58/s 93/55/s Monterey 77/49/s 67/50/s Moreno Valley 96/55/s 96/57/s Napa 85/51/s 81/46/s Needles 90/69/s 96/70/s Oakland 76/51/s 71/52/s Oxnard 90/54/s 82/55/s Redding 93/53/s 89/54/pc Riverside 99/53/s 97/55/s Sacramento 95/51/s 89/52/s San Bernardino 96/56/s 97/58/s San Diego 92/60/s 87/60/s San Francisco 78/53/s 71/51/s San Jose 92/59/s 85/53/s San Luis Obispo 93/51/s 84/49/s Santa Ana 96/57/s 91/60/s Santa Barbara 84/52/s 78/52/s Santa Clarita 98/60/s 95/61/s Stockton 91/53/s 91/51/s Ventura 91/54/s 85/55/s Yosemite Valley 83/51/s 82/46/s Today Friday Albuquerque 64/44/pc 72/52/s Atlanta 70/50/pc 71/50/pc Baltimore 76/49/pc 68/48/pc Boston 67/51/r 65/49/pc Buffalo 58/42/sh 54/43/sh Chicago 51/42/r 57/41/c Cincinnati 60/42/c 59/42/c Dallas 73/48/pc 80/53/s Denver 60/37/pc 74/44/pc Detroit 57/43/sh 57/43/sh El Paso 68/48/pc 76/57/s Fargo 51/38/c 56/36/pc Honolulu 83/70/s 84/72/s Houston 76/49/pc 80/52/pc Indianapolis 56/41/c 58/44/c Kansas City 55/37/c 68/46/s Las Vegas 83/69/s 90/72/s Louisville 62/45/pc 62/47/c Miami 87/76/s 87/76/pc Minneapolis 51/39/sh 57/41/sh New Orleans 73/56/pc 76/57/pc New York City 73/54/r 68/51/pc Oklahoma City 68/41/pc 77/48/s Showers and locally severe thunderstorms will ex- tend from Maine to Florida today. A small number of the storms can be severe for a time, especially from the Delmarva Peninsula to the coastal areas of the Carolinas. A push of cooler air from the Midwest will spread into the Appalachians ending the threat of severe weather. However, an old, lingering storm will continue to bring clouds and spotty showers over the upper part of the Mis- sissippi Valley to the Great Lakes and part of the Ohio Valley. Dry weather is in store from much of the lower Mississippi Valley to the Pacific coast. High ...................... 98° in Santa Maria, CA Low ............. 11° in Lake Yellowstone, WY High .................... 114° in Matam, Senegal Low ... -31° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 67/48/t 65/51/sh Buenos Aires 68/54/pc 70/55/pc Caracas 88/72/s 89/73/pc Ensenada 87/66/s 89/60/s Mexico City 80/55/t 80/50/t Montreal 63/43/r 57/43/c Rio de Janeiro 84/70/pc 82/70/s Tijuana 93/57/s 88/56/s Toronto 58/41/sh 59/41/c Vancouver 71/52/s 68/51/pc Orlando 89/70/t 85/68/t Philadelphia 76/53/pc 69/50/pc Phoenix 90/68/s 93/72/s Pittsburgh 61/44/pc 59/44/c Portland, ME 58/45/r 62/41/c Portland, OR 89/54/s 76/51/pc St. Louis 57/43/c 65/49/pc Salt Lake City 68/49/s 76/56/s Seattle 87/51/s 74/49/pc Tucson 84/59/s 87/61/s Washington, DC 78/54/pc 70/52/pc Cairo 93/64/s 87/70/s Casablanca 81/59/pc 84/59/s Johannesburg 74/47/s 75/49/s Kinshasa 91/74/t 92/74/t Lagos 89/77/t 88/76/t Nairobi 81/61/pc 80/62/t Tripoli 96/61/s 81/61/s Baghdad 99/73/pc 99/72/s Beijing 77/51/pc 75/51/s Hong Kong 80/75/r 83/76/pc Jerusalem 81/59/s 74/56/s Kabul 80/55/t 79/54/t Manila 92/79/t 94/80/t Melbourne 61/50/pc 56/45/r New Delhi 108/82/pc 108/79/pc Seoul 72/48/s 72/48/pc Singapore 88/79/t 90/78/t Sydney 70/55/pc 72/50/pc Tehran 80/68/pc 80/64/pc Tokyo 73/61/r 75/59/pc Amsterdam 57/48/r 59/41/pc Athens 73/57/s 74/55/pc Belgrade 71/52/sh 75/54/pc Berlin 68/44/r 56/37/sh Budapest 74/50/pc 76/49/s Dublin 54/44/r 54/42/pc London 60/49/r 57/41/pc Madrid 79/54/s 75/48/s Moscow 70/50/pc 61/36/s Paris 62/49/r 63/43/pc Rome 68/52/s 66/54/t Stockholm 46/32/sh 48/32/pc Vienna 72/51/s 73/47/pc Zurich 62/46/r 60/44/sh 79/45 82/52 84/51 82/46 80/44 95/51 93/56 85/51 89/46 92/59 92/58 78/41 81/36 80/45 93/53 93/52 84/45 64/47 65/50 65/46 83/48 83/42 87/43 61/47 87/45 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 Spotlight HighlightingselectedTehamaCountybusinessesfortheircustomerandcommunityservice! 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