Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said elections would go ahead as planned in January, despite continuing violence that Thursday killed 41 people including 34 children.Allawi also condemned as “repugnant” the seizure of a British hostage in Iraq and a threat to behead him. “We will have those elections on time in Iraq next year … We are certain that by January most of the Iraqi people will be able to vote,” Allawi told the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.Full Story