Lukashenko wins vote to extend mandate: official
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Preliminary results from Belarus&#39;s Sunday referendum vote showed 77.3 percent of the registered voters backed President Alexander Lukashenko&#39;s proposal to remove a constitutional
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum on Sunday to extend his rule, promised to serve his people better if they voted &quot;yes&quot; and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will have a right to run at forthcoming presidential election in the country.
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BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at critics in the West yesterday after winning a referendum to allow him to seek a third term in office.
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The German Parliament on Thursday overwhelming approved a one-year extension of the Bundeswehr&#39;s Afghanistan mandate. The decision comes a day after a grenade attack on a German camp in Kunduz injured five.
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MINSK, Belarus Belarussians approved a constitutional referendum that would allow their country&#39;s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to seek unlimited terms in office, according to early returns Monday.
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Voters in Belarus approved a referendum that will scrap term limits and allow the country&#39;s authoritarian leader to seek a third term in office.
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Lebanon's parliament voted  overwhelmingly on Friday to extend the term of Syrian-backed  President Emile Lahoud, despite a U.N. Security Council  resolution warning Damascus against interfering in Lebanon.
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Pavel Sheremet, head of special projects at Russia's Channel One television station, was in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to cover Sunday's referendum on the presidential ambitions of Mr Lukashenko - described ...
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Belarusians has overwhelmingly approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission announced, allowing the authoritarian leader of this ex-Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, viewed in the West as Europe's last hard-line  leader, got the go-ahead on Monday to run for another term  while the country's beleaguered opposition was shut out of  parliament.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarusians approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Comission announced Monday, allowing the authoritarian leader of this ex-Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.
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Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms,  won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third  term in office, the top election official said Monday.
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On 17 October, Belarus will hold parliamentary elections as well as a controversial referendum to decide whether to amend the constitution to allow President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to run for a third term in ...
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Belarus awaited the outcome of a referendum Monday to determine whether its veteran president, accused of flouting democratic norms, can extend his stay in office and initial results appeared to favor his ...
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The German parliament has voted to extend for another year the mandate of the country&#39;s 2,000-troop contribution to the NATO peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
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Belarusians voted in favor of scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission chief said Monday, citing partial results.