A man rides his motor bike past a large election campaign banner showing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) along a street in the central Shiite Muslim shrine city of Karbala, on April 6, 2014. Campaigning for Iraq’s April 30 general election opened on April 1, with Maliki bidding for a third term as his government grapples with the country’s worst bloodshed in years. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED SAWAF