Saudi men head to the polls in a limited election
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia began its tentative experiment in democracy yesterday as thousands of men filed into schools, government offices, and streetside tents to cast what for many were the first votes of their lives.
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Upcoming elections in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority are initial steps on still rocky paths to democracy.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Candidates backed by Islamic clerics won races in the Saudi capital in the kingdom's first regular balloting, an election observer said yesterday. But it was too early to say whether this represented a trend in the landmark municipal elections, which will be spread across three months.
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Saudi Arabia is preparing for the first municipal elections in that nation&#39;s history. Saudi voters will go to the ballots on February 10, 2005 to elect half of the City of Riyad&#39;s City Council members.
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Bahrainis began voting in the small Gulf state's national elections on Saturday, amid tension between the government and the Shi'ite Muslim opposition which boycotted polls in the pro-Western kingdom in 2002.
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Iraqi forces will protect polling places during the coming elections, but there are far fewer trained security officers than needed.
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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.
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Danish voters go to the polls on Tuesday to vote in a general election called at short notice by centre-right Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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About 1,000 candidates are running for 300 municipal seats in West Bank villages and towns. It will be the first electoral test before the January 9 presidential elections.
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Saudi pro-reform activists say they are seeking signatures online to back their campaign for free elections.
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Indonesia, a nation of 235 million and with the world&#39;s biggest population of Muslims, goes to the polls today for its first-ever direct presidential election.
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Saudi men over 21 are urged to register to vote ahead of municipal elections - the first in 40 years.
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Yemenis began voting on Wednesday in   elections that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is   expected to win, despite facing a genuine challenge from a   former minister.
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RIYADH  - Anti-regime demonstrations called for by a dissident Islamist group were thwarted as Saudi security forces deployed en masse in Riyadh and Jeddah, detaining 14 people and making it difficult to gauge the group&#39;s popularity.
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Only about a quarter of voters in the Saudi capital Riyadh register for the first elections in 40 years, Saudi media says.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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Hong Kong voters go to the polls Sunday to elect legislators with limited powers, in balloting that may test the strength of the city&#39;s pro-democracy movement.