One month til KRG elections

From Agence France-Presse:

Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Wednesday passed a new constitution in which it laid claim to the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a move likely to increase ethnic tension. The text, which also said that areas within Nineveh and Diyala provinces were part of Iraqi Kurdistan, was approved by 96 of the 111 MPs in the regional parliament in Arbil. The document will be put before Kurdish voters for ratification on July 25, the same day that the region holds parliamentary and presidential elections.