Ukraine rivals call for calm vote
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Ukraine's two presidential candidates call for calm on the eve of a re-run of a bitterly disputed election.
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LEONID KUCHMA, the Ukrainian President, cancelled a visit to Poland at the last minute and appealed for calm yesterday because of mounting tension in the week before an election to choose his successor.
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Ukraine's prime minister was on the verge  of victory in a presidential election on Monday but his liberal  rival accused the authorities of mass fraud and told thousands  of supporters to stay on the streets in protest.
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Ukraine's presidential rivals wrapped up their campaigns Friday as tension mounted ahead of Sunday's rerun election.
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The two rivals in Ukraine's re-run of a rigged presidential election made last-minute pitches to voters on Friday, closing a campaign that has thrown the country into turmoil and could put a West-leaning reformer in office.
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The first meeting between Ukraine's two presidential rivals ended without agreement and a threat from the pro-Western opposition leader to take action unless a new vote is held on December 12.
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Ukraine's outgoing president on Saturday  implicitly called on people to vote for his prime minister in a  close presidential race and told them to shun any protests  urged by the opposition candidate.
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Supporters of both candidates in Ukraine's disputed presidential election and those who opposed both contenders called on Saturday for a broad dialogue to seek conciliation.
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Victorious presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko says its time for his supporters who have camped all winter on Kievs main street to come in from the cold.
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Ukraine's two rivals for power failed in nearly three hours of talks Friday to resolve the political stalemate over who will lead the bitterly divided nation, and opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko told a huge rally that he was insisting on a new election.
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The two candidates in Ukraine's bitterly-fought presidential election make their final appeals to voters.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 17 â After a day of rallies and violent clashes in Gaza between supporters of Hamas and Fatah, with both sides trying to send messages of strength following a presidential order for early elections, leaders called for calm this evening.
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Ukraine's outgoing president on Saturday implicitly called on people to vote for his prime minister in a close presidential race and told them to shun any protests urged by the opposition candidate.
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Ukrainians on Sunday cast ballots in a presidential run-off pitting a Western-leaning reformer against the Kremlin-praised prime minister, a vote many fear will erupt into unrest and violence.
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Ukraine headed into a third week of  turmoil on Monday after presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko  told supporters to keep up street pressure on the Moscow-backed  authorities before the re-run of a rigged election.
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KYIV. Nov 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Supporters of both candidates in Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election and those who opposed both contenders called on Saturday for a broad dialogue to seek conciliation.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Rival candidates Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych face off for the third time in eight weeks on Sunday as Ukrainian voters try to resolve their divided nation's fiercely waged presidential contest and choose their next leader.