Macedonians vote on crucial referendum
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Macedonia's peace process was at a crossroads Sunday as voters cast ballots in a referendum on whether to grant local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanians or risk undermining a peace pact with the restive ...
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Nationalist parties in Macedonia yesterday failed in their attempt to limit the rights of ethnic Albanians, after voters failed to turn out for a referendum on the issue.
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Macedonia&#39;s national referendum on abolishing local autonomy for the country&#39;s restive ethnic Albanian minority appeared to have failed Sunday, early turnout figures suggested.
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Macedonians will vote Sunday in a referendum that is likely to determine whether a three-year peace agreement to end ethnic violence in this former Yugoslav state will remain in place.
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Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday in a legislative election that could bring big gains for the democracy camp, which has angered Beijing by demanding universal suffrage in the former British colony.
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A referendum, initiated by Macedonian nationalists with the objective of repealing legislation granting the country&#39;s ethnic Albanian minority more autonomy, has failed due to low turnout.
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World Macedonian Congress (SMK) Chairman Todor Petrov on 1 September presented a petition to the Macedonian parliament calling for a referendum on the government's plans to cut the number of administrative ...
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A controversial referendum on legislation that would give Albanians greater autonomy gets under way in Macedonia.
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People across the north-east of England are voting in a referendum on whether they should have a regional assembly.
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Bulgarians go to the polls Sunday to pick their representatives in the country's 264 municipalities which millions of euros in EU funding are expected to flow in the next few years.
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Opponents of a plan to give the ethnic Albanian minority in  Macedonia greater clout aim to force a vote  on the issue.
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The Macedonian parliament agrees to hold a referendum on a law to give greater power to ethnic Albanians.
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HONG KONG, China -- Hong Kong residents are voting in legislative elections seen as a referendum on Chinese rule and the most extensive democracy exercise in the country.
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A local woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the city of Tashlik. Voters in Transdnestr took part in a referendum on whether to stick to the region's pro-Moscow separatist course or accept being part ...
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SKOPJE, Nov 6  - The Macedonian government, buoyed by US recognition of Macedonia&#39;s constitutional name, was pulling out all the stops Saturday to scupper a referendum that could set back the peace process with the restive ethnic Albanian minority.
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Montenegrins voted Sunday in the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from Serbia &#151; a ballot that could prove key to the new country's aspirations to become a member of NATO and the European Union.
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Politics: 6 November 2004, Saturday. Macedonia sank into contemplation on Saturday, prior to the crucial referendum on whether to grant local autonomity to ethnic Albanians in the country.