War-battered Congo set for historic vote
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After decades of dictatorship and war, this massive nation in the heart of Africa chooses a new leader Sunday in its first multiparty presidential elections since winning independence nearly half a century ago.
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Police in Congo&#039;s capital fired tear gas Tuesday to break up stone-throwing demonstrators who were alleging electoral irregularities ahead of the country&#039;s first presidential vote in four decades.
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Congo will send up to 10,000 soldiers  to its eastern province of North Kivu to prevent rebels and  Rwandan forces from launching cross border attacks, President  Joseph Kabila's spokesman said Monday.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- Congo intends to send up to 10,000 reinforcements toward its eastern border with Rwanda, a presidential spokesman said yesterday, after credible reports that thousands of Rwandan troops crossed into its territory, raising fears of reigniting a devastating five-year regional war.
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a knife-edge  presidential election that could decide whether it turns its  back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the  breakaway province of Kosovo.
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Democratic Republic of Congo's first   freely elected parliament in more than 40 years convened on   Friday, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to   appoint a prime minister.
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KABUL Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way on Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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Belgians began voting on Sunday in an election expected to replace Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt with the premier of Flanders who wants more power for his Dutch-speaking region.
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Walls plastered with campaign posters from Congo's historic elections are peppered with bullet holes. Tank fire has smashed buildings just down bloodstained streets from voting centers in the war-battered capital.
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Joseph Kabila is to be inaugurated in DR Congo, following one of Africa's most significant elections for years.
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Millions of Afghans are set to go to the polls Saturday in the country&#39;s first direct democratic election, almost three years after the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign.
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World leaders urged the people of  Congo on Saturday to shun violence and embrace democracy by  voting peacefully in the country's first free multi-party  elections in 40 years this weekend.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Oct. 16 -- President Joseph Kabila of Congo visited territory in the country&#39;s northeast formerly held by rebels for the first time since taking power in 2001, his spokesman said Saturday.
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila's  guards fought gun battles with forces loyal to election  challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba in the capital Kinshasa on Sunday,  after poll results showed the two would have to enter a  run-off.
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Guarded by armed police, Kenyans voted on Thursday in a general election preceded by violence, tainted by allegations of rigging and likely to be the closest in more than four decades of independence from Britain.
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Afghans have braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
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GOMA, Congo  - United Nations peacekeepers in  helicopters and armored troop carriers headed for the front  line in eastern Congo on Tuesday to stop renegade soldiers  advancing further after more than a week of fighting.