Autocratic Uzbek leader seeks third term
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President Islam Karimov, the authoritarian and repressive leader of Uzbekistan, was seeking to extend his rule in a tightly controlled election that featured three other candidates Â all of whom publicly supported his policies.
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As opposition protests entered a third day, Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich was declared the winner.
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Uzbekistan's president wins 88% of the vote in Sunday's election, which monitors have dismissed as a sham.
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Belarus awaited the outcome of a referendum on Monday to determine whether President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the West of running roughshod over human rights, can run for office for a third time.
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Once again the Kremlin-backed candidate will face the opposition leader who favors closer ties with the West.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, has won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official says.
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Uzbekistan voted on Sunday in a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate &quot;revolutions&quot; such as those in Ukraine and Georgia.
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Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said he wants to serve a second term in office, but he needs a constitutional amendment and the approval of power broker Syria to stay there.
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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh easily won a third term Saturday and called for a concerted effort to develop the country socially and economically.
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Uzbeks were casting ballots Sunday in a tightly controlled presidential vote that is widely expected to extend the rule of one of the most autocratic and anti-Western leaders in strategic Central Asia.
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Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, 68, has been re-elected with 94.5% of the votes, for a fourth tenure of five years. Two opposition figures, Mohamed Bouchiha, of the Popular Unity party and Mounir BÃ©ji of the Social
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He's running unopposed, but Mohamed ElBaradei may still fail in his bid for a third term leading the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, tripped by his main opponent, the United States.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- President Islam Karimov slammed Europe&#39;s top election watchdog for criticizing Sunday&#39;s parliamentary vote in this Central Asian nation, where all opposition groups were barred from running for office.
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Belarus officials say President Alexander Lukashenko handily won the right to seek a third term after a weekend vote questioned by the West and slammed by opponents of the authoritarian leader as a &quot;farce&quot;.
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Chechnya is to elect a new president, three months after the last one was killed in a bomb attack.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan  - Uzbekistan voted Sunday in  a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic  President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate  "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a  respected former Islamist, won a third round of voting in parliament on Tuesday to become Turkey's next president, a ruling AK Party deputy told Reuters.