Guatemalans vote after violent campaign
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A former general vowing to crack down on crime in Central America's most violent country and a businessman who promises to alleviate desperate poverty appeared to lead a pack of 14 candidates in Guatemala's presidential vote Sunday.
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Pakistanis cast their votes in parliamentary elections on Monday amid fears of violence, accusations of vote-rigging and surveys indicating opposition parties could fare well.
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Guatemalan voters saw the top five top candidates in their country's presidential race square off in a historic debate Thursday evening, a contrast to the violence and name-calling that has marred the campaign in recent months.
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The day's violence underscored the rise in ethnic and sectarian tensions as the embattled nation heads toward elections in January.
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Two-thirds of registered voters in the Iraqi capital say they will cast their ballots in the Jan. 30 election despite the threat of violence, an independent Iraqi newspaper survey found Monday.
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Swiss voters go to the polls after a campaign marred by riots and accusations of racism.
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Sierra Leone counted votes on Sunday from a tense presidential run-off which went peacefully despite fears of violence, but both sides accused the other of fraud and intimidation.
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Bosnians are voting in local elections - the first held by the Bosnian authorities since the end of the war in 1995.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 6, 2004 - Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted on Sunday  for a new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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The reasons why Rigoberta Menchu, the first indigenous presidential candidate in Guatemala, lost nationwide elections on Sunday are as complex as the Mayans themselves.
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Afghans vote Saturday in the first direct presidential elections in their history, under the threat of violence from anti-US militants and Osama bin Laden's terror network.
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MOZDOK, Russia  - Chechens began voting Sunday for  a new president, but few expect peace to follow from a  Kremlin-sponsored contest overshadowed by fighting and twin  plane crashes some have linked to rebels in the region.
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GROZNY, Russia - Against a backdrop of war, squalor and terrorism, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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Nearly four million Papua New Guineans began voting in general elections Saturday, with no immediate reports of the violence which marred the last poll in 2002.
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Bosnians voted Saturday in local elections in which the main Muslim, Serb and Croat nationalist parties are expected to confirm their dominance nine years after the end of the 1992-5 war.