Turkmenistan Holds Elections
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Polling stations were nearly empty early on election day Sunday in the capital of Turkmenistan, a tightly controlled former Soviet republic. Election officials said they may carry ballot boxes door-to-door to seek votes.
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Uzbeks head to the polls on Sunday in an election certain to extend President Islam Karimov's long rule and criticized by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style contest.
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Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region holds its first ever multi-candidate elections, in a vote for president.
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A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Sivitsa, 70 kilometres from Minsk, October 17. AFP. MINSK  - Belarus officials said Monday that President Alexander Lukashenko handily won the right to seek
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Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov became gas-rich Turkmenistan's new president on Wednesday, pledging to follow a path set by late authoritarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov and respect existing energy contracts.
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Parliamentary and municipal elections are being held Sunday across Cameroon, with longtime President Paul Biya's ruling party widely expected to dominate as it has for decades.
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Campaigning for Morocco&#39;s legislative elections began Saturday with a record number of parties vying for seats and observers expecting Islamist candidates to make gains in next month&#39;s vote.
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The second round of the Seimas election began in 66 single-mandate districts of Lithuania at 7:00 a.m. local time (8:00 Moscow time) on Sunday.
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Voters in Taiwan begin voting to elect MPs in a contest seen as a barometer for March's presidential election.
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Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is declared the winner of Turkmenistan's presidential elections.
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Uzbekistan voted on Sunday in a  election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic  President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate  "revolutions" such as those in Ukraine and Georgia.
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Cameroonians start to vote in presidential elections, marred by allegations of fraud and apathy.
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Polling stations were nearly empty yesterday in elections for Turkmenistan&#39;s rubber-stamp Parliament, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door to door in this nation ruled by a former Soviet Communist boss who has been declared president-for-life.
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No modern work of literature is more tied to the life and thought of a nation as Turkmenistan's "Rukhnama," a book seen in this reclusive, energy-rich country as combined epic history, divinely inspired moral guide and state policy. The country's new president, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, solemnly kissed the tome upon taking office Wednesday.
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Moroccans vote in a general election on Friday that is expected to see the main Islamist party make gains that could throw up a new challenge for the reforming King Mohammed VI.
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Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia re-runs October's disputed  presidential election.