Ecuador referendum row escalates
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Political tension is rising in Ecuador over a referendum on rewriting the constitution, planned for April.
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Protesters intensify their campaign against Sunday's election results.
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Macedonia's three-year peace process faces one of its biggest hurdles as voters go to the polls in a referendum called by opponents of EU-backed laws designed to empower the ethnic Albanian minority.
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Protests against cuts in the NHS are threatening to rival the rebellion against the poll tax, campaigners warn.
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The immigration proposal before Congress continued to prompt objections from each side of the aisle.
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuadorean police barred Supreme Court judges from returning to their offices yesterday after the judges tried to defy a decision by Congress to fire them for bias against President Lucio Gutierrez.
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Once again, Florida is embroiled in a dispute over vote counting in the presidential election.
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LONDON: A new row erupted around a British cabinet minister at the weekend amid questions whether he had received preferential treatment to speed up the adoption of a baby boy from the United States.
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Tensions have been mounting in the runup to the presidential election as Florida politicians trade accusations over claims of fraud, missing absentee ballots and concerns that thousands
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They&#39;re pledging to continue their siege of government buildings in the city until lawmakers vote to change the country&#39;s election laws.
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Ecuador holds a run-off vote to choose a new president, with both candidates neck-and-neck in opinion polls.
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Some 20 lawmakers fired last week by Ecuador's top electoral court for allegedly interfering with plans for a constitutional referendum forced their way past dozens of police guarding Congress and took up their seats on Tuesday.
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Ballots from Mexico's disputed presidential vote are to be burnt, despite a plea by President-elect Felipe Calderon.
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Opponents of a plan to give the ethnic Albanian minority in  Macedonia greater clout aim to force a vote  on the issue.
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QUITO, Ecuador, March 8 -- Police surrounded Ecuador's National Congress on Thursday to keep out dozens of lawmakers who were fired a day earlier by four electoral judges the lawmakers had sought to impeach, in the latest constitutional crisis in the small Andean nation.
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Ukraineâs eastern province, centred around Donetsk, called a referendum on autonomy yesterday in response to the continuing disputes and mass protests over allegations of widespread vote-rigging in the
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DAVID BLUNKETT was under increased pressure today following new allegations that a visa application by his former lover&#39;s nanny was speeded up.