Jamaica to vote in tight election
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Jamaicans are due to vote in a general election which is expected to be the closest contest for years.
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Zambia went to the polls on Thursday to   elect a new president after a razor-tight race pitting the   internationally respected incumbent against a fiery populist   who has promised to give impoverished Zambians a bigger share   of their nation's copper riches.
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Voters in the tiny West African nation   of Gambia go to the polls on Friday in a presidential election   widely expected to hand incumbent strongman Yahya Jammeh a   third elected term.
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Jamaica's main opposition has won a narrow election victory, preliminary results indicated today.
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Hurricane Ivan battered Jamaica today but the island is expected to escape the worst of the storms. Hundreds of British tourists and residents in the tropical paradise
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Accra - Ghana&#39;s leader, John Kufuor, is expected to win a second and final four-year term when voters in the world&#39;s second-biggest cocoa grower choose their leader in a presidential election on Tuesday.
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ST. GEORGE&#39;S, GRENADA - Jamaica&#39;s Prime Minister urged his country to pray Thursday as the Category 5 hurricane Ivan headed toward the island nation after killing 20 people elsewhere in the Caribbean.
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President Joseph Kabila's lead Saturday in Congo's historic presidential election was below the majority needed to avoid a runoff, a day before the deadline for a preliminary tally of votes.
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Ghanaians began to cast their votes on Tuesday morning for the fourth successive democratic elections since 1992, hoping the government for the next four years can bring about vigorous economic development to the politically stable west African country.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard is widely expected to announce an election date this weekend, setting off a tight race between his conservative coalition and a resurgent Labor Party.
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People in Ghana are closely following the vote counting after Tuesday&#39;s election, with final results expected late Wednesday. After waiting patiently in line Tuesday to cast votes in their fourth consecutive
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Jamaicans head to the polls on Monday in what is expected to be a close election as their Caribbean island heals from a brush with a monster hurricane, warily eyes another and frets over recent political violence.
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Sympathy vote for Pakistan People's party expected to give it the edge in election beset by worries of attacks
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Indonesians go to the polls to choose their next president on Monday amid tight security following the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta.
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Cameroonian voters are to go to the polls in a parliamentary election, amid opposition claims of vote-rigging.
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Jamaicans cast their votes for a new government on Monday in what was expected to be a close election held under a tropical storm alert for Hurricane Felix to the south and concerns about recent political violence.
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Officials in Jamaica planned to evacuate as many as 500,000 people from low-lying areas as powerful Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 storm, headed toward the island nation.