Guatemala electing new president
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Guatemalans go to the polls for presidential and general elections after the bloodiest campaign in years.
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Argentines voted for a new president on Sunday with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner poised to succeed her husband and become the country's first elected woman leader.
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Description: There&#39;s a presidential election Sunday in Chechnya to replace the man who was assassinated earlier this year. The election has been overshadowed by the twin airplane crashes in Russia, which are now attributed to Chechen terrorists.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Voters hungry for change are expected today to do what was unthinkable during Indonesia's three decades of authoritarian rule -- toss out an incumbent president and vote in a political newcomer who has promised to crack down on corruption and revive the battered economy.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was sworn in yesterday, pledging to be a humble "servant-leader" and to reform the electoral process to prevent future fraud, after the elections he won last month were widely condemned by international and local observers.
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Chechens elect a new president Sunday, but few expect peace to follow from a Kremlin-sponsored contest overshadowed by fighting and twin plane crashes some have linked to rebels in the region.
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Martin Torrijos Espino was sworn in as the new Panamanian president on Wednesday in the Atlapa Conventions Center of the capital. In his speech at the inauguration ceremony
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Guatemala is set for a second round in the presidential poll as no candidate won a majority on Sunday.
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Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya elected Alu Alkhanov president in a poll held to replace Akhamad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May.
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Argentines vote for a new president on Sunday with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner poised to succeed her husband in a rare democratic handover between spouses.
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29 August 2004 -- Voters in Russia&#39;s breakaway republic of Chechnya have begun casting ballots for a new president. Seven candidates are vying for the job, including frontrunner Alu Alkhanov, who is backed by the Kremlin.
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A hard-line former general who wants an army crackdown on rampant crime led Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, but he lacked enough support to avoid a November 4 runoff, results showed.
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Security, immigration and trade are on the agenda as George Bush visits Guatemala as part of his Latin America tour.
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MEXICO CITY -- Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Maya Indian who has long been a symbol of indigenous pride and defiance, has announced that she will be a candidate in Guatemala's presidential election.
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For the first time in recent elections, Northeastern voters will figure prominently in choosing the presidential nominees.
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OISKHARA, Russia - Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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GUATEMALA CITY, March 12 -- President Bush began touring rural villages and ancient Mayan villages here Monday as he brought his "social justice" tour of Latin America closer to home and tried to showcase ways that the United States works to uplift its neighbors.