World leaders back Congo polls
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World leaders urged the people of  Congo on Saturday to shun violence and embrace democracy by  voting peacefully in the country's first free multi-party  elections in 40 years this weekend.
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LONDON -- The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence and voted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East, many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterday the national election was a step forward.
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Electoral officials slowly counting votes from Congo's landmark presidential election said Sunday that support for incumbent Joseph Kabila has slipped to just above 50 percent, increasing the likelihood of a runoff.
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Pakistan supports Afghan President Hamid Karzai but democratic polls in its neighbor will not influence Pakistan's political processes, President Pervez Musharraf said in remarks published here.
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NEW YORK - Both Germany and France in their speeches before the 59th General Assembly session on Thursday supported Japan&#39;s ongoing effort to secure a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
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London, Nov. 4 (NNN): Leaders across the world have congratulated George Walker Bush on his re-election as the United States president.
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BRUSSELS , Dec 21 (IPS) - The European Union has pledged support for general  elections that are scheduled to take place in the Democratic  Republic of Congo in June next year.
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President Joseph Kabila called on Congo's citizens Friday to shun violence during this weekend's historic elections, telling thousands of cheering supporters that their votes can bring peace to the Central African country. But unrest continued ahead of Sunday's vote, with a presidential candidate claiming one his armed guards died and another was injured when Kabila's security forces fired on them.
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Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) turned out in their millions in the first round of historic presidential elections likely to confirm Joseph Kabila as leader of the embattled central African country.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 20 (Xinhuanet,by Cheng Zhiliang, Zhang Ran) -- Eleven countries in Africa&#39;s conflict-ridden Great Lakes region concluded here Saturday a two-day summit with the adoption of a landmark peace declaration aimedat democracy and prosperity.
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Troops in Uvira in eastern DR Congo put down protests at the return of refugees from Burundi.
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Several countries in the former Soviet bloc have lined up behind Russia in endorsing the disputed result of Ukraine's presidential election.
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With a few notable exceptions, world leaders&#39; reaction to George W. Bush&#39;s electoral victory has been muted. As he declared victory on Wednesday afternoon, Bush said he is proud of his active international
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast African leaders are backing an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast as well as a travel ban and freezing of assets.
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate U.N. sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo's hard-line government even further in its deadly confrontation with ...
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Canadian and European Union leaders welcomed the African Union's decision to increase seven-fold its monitoring force in Sudan's Darfur region, and pledged to support the effort.
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UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and the Security Council called for a probe of last week's deadly violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Bas Congo province and pledged continued UN support to the central African country.