Iranians vote in electoral test for Ahmadinejad
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Iranians voted on Friday for local councils and a powerful clerical body in the first electoral test for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies since he swept to office in 2005.
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Indonesians cast their ballots Monday in the country's first democratic presidential election in a vote which will cap months of polls and finally consign decades of dictatorship to history.
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A popular former president has resumed his attacks against hardline Iranian clerics threatening to disqualify reformists from upcoming elections.
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Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader &#151; a vote seen as a victory for Iran's moderate conservatives, state media reported.
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Bahrainis voted in national elections on Saturday with the majority Shi'ite Muslim opposition taking part for the first time after a 2002 poll boycott, although it alleged some voting irregularities.
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Most Iranians support nuclear inspections, a democratic government and normal relations with the United States, a poll by a U.S.-based organization has found.
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Indonesians cast their ballots today in the country&#39;s first democratic presidential election. The vote will cap months of polls and finally consign decades of dictatorship to history.
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Weary of wars, Iraqis queuing to vote on a bright Saturday morning in Tehran mostly agreed it was time to go home, hoping their votes would unravel decades of discrimination against the Shi'ite Muslim majority.
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Iran's biggest reformist party said on Monday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had suffered a "decisive defeat" in nationwide elections last week due to his government's "authoritarian and inefficient methods".
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country, and he does not believe the U.S. is preparing for war against Iran.
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Afghan refugees thronged polling stations in Pakistan and Iran on Saturday to vote in their war-torn homeland's landmark presidential election &#151; undeterred by explosions at or near two refugee camps.
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Voters began casting their ballots Thursday in an election that analysts say is likely to return Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to power, but with new, left-wing partners in government.
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People in Uzbekistan vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.
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Iran's conservative-dominated parliament votes to give itself a veto over foreign deals struck by reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad writes to US citizens asking them to reject  President Bush's policies.
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A former Iranian president wanted in Argentina for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center was leading the race for a seat on a powerful clerical body, according to partial results of elections reported by state-run television Sunday.
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TEHRAN, Sept. 4 -- Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader, state media reported, in a vote seen as a setback for hard-liners in Iran's ruling establishment.