Barghouthi pulls out of poll race
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Imprisoned uprising leader Palestinian Marwan Barghouti pulled out of the race for presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Marwan Barghouti, the popular Fatah leader imprisoned by Israel, dropped out of the contest for the Palestinian Authority presidency last night in his second change of heart within a fortnight.
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Iraq&#39;s largest mainstream Sunni Muslim party pulled out of the election race yesterday, saying the violence plaguing areas north and west of Baghdad made a &quot;free and fair vote&quot; on January 30 impossible.
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Iraqi Islamic party chief says decision to pull out motivated by governmentâs refusal to postpone elections. By Kamal Taha - BAGHDAD.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Sunni Muslim party withdrew from the country&#39;s Jan. 30 elections on Monday, saying its conditions for participating had not been met.
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Jailed popular leader Marwan Barghouthi  decided on Wednesday to run in a Palestinian presidential  election and Hamas militants vowed to boycott it, throwing the  campaign into turmoil after Yasser Arafat's death.
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The Associated Press has pulled its football poll from being used by the Bowl Championship Series as part of a formula to select the teams for the national title game and the three other BCS bowls.
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County Mayor Nancy Workman, facing criminal charges of misspending taxpayer money, announced she was withdrawing from the Nov. 2 election for health reasons.
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JERUSALEM -- Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi decided yesterday not to run for president of the Palestinian Authority and called on voters to support Mahmoud Abbas, the candidate of the ruling Fatah party, in elections scheduled for Jan. 9.
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Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti, 43, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail, announced yesterday that he would withdraw his candidacy for the Palestinian presidency.
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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti may withdraw his candidacy for the Palestinian presidential elections due to be held on January nineth.
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Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi joined the race for president to succeed Yasser Arafat on Wednesday, drawing condemnation from his own Fatah movement and threatening to split the group.
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One of the three cities vying to host the 2014 Commowealth Games pulls out of the race.
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RAMALLAH, 13 December 2004 - Jailed intifada leader Marwan Barghouti called off his campaign to become Palestinian president yesterday, throwing his support behind PLO chairman and the now overwhelming favorite Mahmoud Abbas.
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Jailed popular leader Marwan Barghouthi decided on Wednesday to run in a Palestinian presidential election and Hamas militants vowed to boycott it, throwing the campaign into turmoil after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Bangladesh's main opposition has called off a four-day transport blockade after the interim government bowed to pressure to replace an election chief accused of seeking to rig January elections.
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MARWAN BARGHOUTI, the jailed firebrand Palestinian leader, has decided not to run for the presidency, aides announced last night, lifting the threat of a divided vote in his Fatah faction.