Guatemalan ex-general leads presidential race
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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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A U.S.-trained former general who led the fight against al-Qaida-linked extremists in Indonesia appeared headed for a landslide victory Tuesday in a presidential runoff heralded as a key step for democracy in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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Alvaro Colom was sworn in on Monday as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, promising to fight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
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A former education minister favored by the outgoing president held a narrow lead for the ruling party's presidential nomination in nearly complete results reported Monday. If she is elected, South America would have three female leaders.
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A former general who has pledged to fight terror and fix the economy was headed for landslide win over incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's landmark elections Monday, according a nationwide sampling of votes by an independent pollster.
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling  ZANU-PF party, Simba Makoni, said on Tuesday he will run for  president in the March 29 election in what could be the first  major internal challenge to Robert Mugabe in 20 years.
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A leftist nationalist who is friendly with Venezuela's anti-U.S. president held a commanding lead over a Bible-toting banana tycoon in Sunday's runoff presidential election in Ecuador, according to an unofficial quick count of sample votes.
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Despite U.S. efforts to stop  left-wing Nicaraguan politician Daniel Ortega from returning to  power, a poll released on Tuesday showed he maintained a  six-point lead over rival presidential candidates.
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Early returns in Indonesia's  presidential elections Monday gave a lead to ex-general Susilo  Bambang Yudhoyono, who has vowed firmer leadership to fight  terror and boost the economy, over incumbent Megawati  Sukarnoputri.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's radical Indian leader  Evo Morales, who has infuriated Washington with calls to  legalize coca farming, has come first in municipal elections  that are seen as a springboard for a 2007 presidential vote.
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A former education minister seeking to become Paraguay's first female president held a narrow lead on Monday in a race for the ruling party's presidential nomination, partial results showed.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was leading a close race for the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, television exit polls showed.
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Description: Former Gen. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono leads incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri after polls close in Indonesia&#39;s first direct presidential election.
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt may face genocide charges related to widespread massacres of Maya Indians at the height of one of Latin America's bloodiest civil wars in the early 1980s.
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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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Guatemala's first leftist president in 50 years, Alvaro Colom, took office Monday with a pledge to help the poor.
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Center-left candidate Alvaro Colom and right-wing retired general Otto Perez Molina were set for a tight finish in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, a new public opinion poll showed.