Voting starts in first UAE poll
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Polling begins in the UAE's first elections, in which less than 1% of citizens are eligible to cast a vote.
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Thousands of Palestinians voted yesterday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in 28 years, with the Islamic group
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Palestinians voted Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Bahrainis began voting in the small Gulf state's national elections on Saturday, amid tension between the government and the Shi'ite Muslim opposition which boycotted polls in the pro-Western kingdom in 2002.
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Afghans will begin casting their votes on Saturday morning at some 25,000 polling stations, in the country&#39;s first democratic ballot.
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Voting begins in Niger's presidential elections, with the incumbent, Mamadou Tandja, expected to win.
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Voting began in the first round of France's legislative election on Sunday with President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party expected to strengthen its hold on power.
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Polls open this morning in the Netherlands as the Dutch vote for a new parliament.Comment
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Polls have opened in Hong Kong&#39;s legislative election, which pits pro-Bejing party candidates against those who favor greater democracy for the territory.
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Vote counting has begun in Tuesday&#39;s general election in Ghana, where President John Kufuor is widely expected to win re-election.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the Gaza Strip, a  test of strength between new President Mahmoud Abbas and the  militant Hamas group.
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Namibian voters are casting their ballots in the nation&#39;s presidential and parliamentary elections. In Windhoek, people started arriving at the polling stations as early as 5am today.
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Turkish lawmakers Tuesday began a decisive round of voting in presidential elections expected to install Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the secular republic&#39;s first head of state with an Islamist past.
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Palestinians have voted in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades in a dress rehearsal for next month&#39;s presidential ballot to choose former president Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Palestinians began registering voters for an as yet unscheduled general election on Saturday, in the first concrete step to meet long-standing international and domestic demands for reforms.
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Afghans began voting on Saturday in a  historic poll that will give the mountainous Islamic nation on  the ancient Silk Road its first elected president and perhaps  end over a quarter-century of war.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia began its tentative experiment in democracy yesterday as thousands of men filed into schools, government offices, and streetside tents to cast what for many were the first votes of their lives.