Strong Shia gains in Bahrain vote
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Bahrain's Shia opposition wins 40% of the vote a general election which sees women and liberals fare poorly.
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A resounding Shiite victory in next month's elections will bring Iraq closer to Tehran, forming a "Super Iran" that could change the face of the Middle East, critics say.
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Bahrain's foreign minister said Friday that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement was within reach, urging the United States to seize the chance presented by the Palestinian elections to advance the peace process. Palestinians are to vote Jan. 9. for a replacement for the late Yasser Arafat.
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Turnout in Sunni Arab areas during last weekend's landmark elections was higher than expected, with lines forming outside polling centers in insurgency strongholds like Fallujah and Mosul, the chief U.N. election expert in Iraq said Wednesday.
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A Shi'ite Islamist bloc won Iraq's  first election since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, sealing the  political resurgence of the long-oppressed majority but leaving  the restive Sunni Arab minority in the cold.
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MANAMA, Bahrain, Nov. 26 -- Bahrain's government has touted parliamentary elections here as a model for regional reform and a milestone for democracy. But critics say the polls are similar to those in many Arab countries: designed to give the appearance of democracy while maintaining the...
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A member of the Shia alliance which took most of the vote in Iraq calls for national unity to build a new state.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Top Shi'ite clerics, emboldened by what they perceive as a massive turnout by their followers for the coalition of Shi'ite religious parties, have already directed their attention to advocating for an Islamic constitution, several of them said in the aftermath of Sunday's election.
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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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Under the guidance of Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, Shiite parties presented a list Thursday of 228 candidates for next month's parliamentary elections. Minority Sunni Arabs, who had been favored under Saddam Hussein, must now decide whether to join the race or renounce a vote that will help determine the country's future.
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Clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds swept to victory in Iraq's landmark elections, propelling to power the groups that suffered the most under Saddam Hussein and forcing Sunni Arabs to the margins for the first time in modern history, according to final results released Sunday.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Campaigning has been dirty and divisive ahead of parliamentary elections today in this US Gulf ally: Mobile text messages warn voters that a landmark Shi'ite Muslim victory would turn Bahrain into a new Iraq and that female candidates will spread immorality.
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Voters in Bahrain return to the polls, for a run-off election that will decide how much power the opposition wields.
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Partial figures place Iraq's main Shia Muslim coalition in the lead in the country's landmark elections, officials say.
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Iraq&#39;s majority Shiite Muslims have announced a broadly-based alliance ahead of next month&#39;s key elections, which is backed by their highest religious leader but excludes radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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BAGHDAD -- Under the guidance of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite cleric, Shi'ite parties presented a list yesterday of 228 candidates for next month's elections. Minority Sunni Arabs, who had been favored under Saddam Hussein, must decide whether to join the race or renounce a vote that will help determine the country's future.
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The people of Najaf, the symbolic heart of Shiite Islam, came out in force to vote in Sunday's election.