Burundi peace poll postponed
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Elections in Burundi, scheduled under a peace accord to take place by 1 November, are postponed.
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Elections in Iraq scheduled to take place by Jan. 31 may be postponed because of continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.
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The deeply divided Lebanese parliament failed again to elect a president Monday and voting was postponed until Saturday amid a political impasse that continues to hold up the army chief's election for the post
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The final of the African Confederation Cup between Ghanaian clubs Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko has been postponed to avoid a clash with the country&#39;s presidential elections.
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Election commission set to announce delay to election because of unrest following Bhutto assassination.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of leading political parties on Friday called for a six-month delay to the Jan. 30 parliamentary elections, expressing concerns that widening violence would make voting impossible in large swaths of Iraq.
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Pakistan on Wednesday postponed general elections until February 18 following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, which sparked days of unrest that left dozens of people dead.
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Somalia's reconciliation conference is again delayed after the Hawiye clan and Islamists refuse to take part.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 1 -- Long-awaited elections scheduled for next week are almost certain to be postponed, a choice that rankles opposition leaders in Pakistan who want the vote held on time.
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BEIJING, Aug.18 (Xinhuanet) -- A UN spokesman is calling on the Burundian government to exercise restraint, saying violence won&#39;t help reduce tensions there.
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Burundi authorities have ordered a private radio station not to broadcast for 48 hours after it was found guilty of airing programs that threaten the country's fragile peace process, officials said on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of 17 leading Iraqi political organizations, including some of America&#39;s closest allies, called Friday for a postponement of elections scheduled for Jan. 30, citing the violence and a lack of preparations.
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Burundi's president is warned against amending the constitution to let him run in this year's elections.
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Afghanistan's election vote count is delayed until the shape of an inquiry into alleged flaws is announced.
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A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until December 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.
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Despite relentless violence Iraqi main Shiite Muslim parties have rejected demands of secular poiticians and Sunni Moslems to postpone the poll and called on Saturday for elections to go ahead on Jan. 30 as scheduled.
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The funeral of a slain evangelical pastor was postponed Saturday after tens of thousands tried to attend, underscoring frustration with crime in a country where rebels who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide six months ago still patrol some towns.