Romania Presidential Challenger Quits Due to Health
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - Romania's main opposition  candidate for the Nov. 28 presidential election, Theodor  Stolojan, announced Saturday he was withdrawing from the race  due to health problems.
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The Romanian striker was dismissed for gross misconduct last month after he admitted taking the drug following a target test. The 25-year-old was later suspended by the Football Association for seven months, a ban which was later made worldwide by FIFA.
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Romanians are voting in what are expected to be close elections for a new president and parliament. The governing ex-communists are facing a strong challenge from a new centrist opposition alliance.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday left the hospital where he had been undergoing heart tests after fainting during a rally last week.Comment
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Campaigning ended ahead of the weekend for the first round of Romanian presidential elections that will choose the head of state to lead the former communist state into the European Union.
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WASHINGTON -- The country&#39;s health czar resigned yesterday, warning of a potential global outbreak of the flu and health-related terror attacks.
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Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu claimed victory Monday in Romania&#39;s presidential run-off, pledging to fight corruption and prepare Romania to join the European Union by 2007.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and his left-wing party faced a tough challenge from the centrist opposition in presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday.
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A Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate is in hospital following a sudden illness. Viktor Yushchenko fell ill Sept.
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Romania's centrist opposition leader  Traian Basescu scored an upset victory in a presidential race  against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, almost complete  official results showed on Monday.
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Exit polls showed no clear winner in Romania's presidential election Sunday, forcing a runoff next month between a former ship's captain with a populist message and a political veteran embodying the communist ...
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Romania's centrist opposition, buoyed by a presidential election victory of their leader Traian Basescu, put pressure on the ruling left on Wednesday to abandon its bid to cling to power or face early elections.
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Exit polls from Romania's  presidential run-off on Sunday showed the race between Social  Democrat Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and opposition leader  Traian Basescu was too close to call.
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After 18 years in power, President Joachim Chissano is stepping down and five candidates are vying for his post. The leading candidates are from two parties which fought a destructive civil war which ended in 1992.
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THE Romanian opposition leader, Traian Basescu, was yesterday declared winner of the countryâs presidential election. The victory appears to mark the end of the last of Eastern Europeâs Communist &quot;dynasties
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BUCHAREST  - Romanians rang the end of an era as they voted for a president to succeed Ion Iliescu and lead them into the European Union, hoping the change will also spell an end to rampant poverty and graft.
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - Exit polls indicated no clear winner in Romania's presidential election Sunday, forcing a runoff next month between a former ship's captain with a populist message and a political veteran whose party is associated with the country's communist past.