Tunisia president looks set to sweep elections
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A worker cleans a hairdresser&#39;s shop window decorated with electoral posters of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in the Medina of Tunis, Oct. 23.
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Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, 68, has been re-elected with 94.5% of the votes, for a fourth tenure of five years. Two opposition figures, Mohamed Bouchiha, of the Popular Unity party and Mounir BÃ©ji of the Social
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France on Sunday held the deciding round of parliamentary elections expected to give right wing President Nicolas Sarkozy an overwhelming mandate for his ambitious reforms.
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Backed by Iraq&#39;s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the political coalition of 228 candidates is expected to sweep next month&#39;s elections.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is  expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push  through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the  fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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The leader of Cameroon's main opposition party calls for reforms ahead of next month's poll.
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France goes to the polls for the second time in a just over a month on Sunday when it votes in parliamentary elections that are expected to seal President Nicolas Sarkozy's grip on power.
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President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali extended his 17 years in power in Tunisia on Sunday by winning almost 95 percent of the votes in presidential and parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
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WASHINGTON - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi sees a bright future for Iraqi democracy, brushing aside skeptics who say elections set for January may be truncated or canceled altogether because of violence.    Defense Secretary Donald H...
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Pakistan's president considers concessions to his political opposition ahead of expected January elections, as a polls show him in thrid place behind Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif
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Tunisian polls closed Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections widely expected to be won by the incumbent president and his party.
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Zambian voters are going to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local councillors.
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Georgia's main opposition leader says the authorities are preparing to rig Saturday's presidential election.
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The former director of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal said that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has taken over the court and could rush forward with "show trials" of Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi leaders to boost his popularity before presidential elections scheduled for January.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes a surprise call for democratic reform in Tunisia.
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Gambians go to the polls to elect a president, with incumbent Yahya Jammeh favourite to win.
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Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was widely expected to win a fourth term on Monday in presidential and parliamentary elections marred by a boycott by an opposition party that called the vote a sham.