| Iraqi police banned vehicles from Mosul's streets on Friday ahead of Saturday's election, which is the first in three years. Voters go to poll on Saturday to select members of ruling provincial councils here and in most of the country. As a sign of the tension, Mosul residents to stay at home until they are ready to vote the following day. Similar bans were not due to take effect in the rest of the country until late Friday. The measures in Mosul were imposed the day after gunmen assassinated a local Sunni candidate. |