Uruguay&#39;s Vazquez Wins Presidency in 1st Round, Exit Polls Show
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Uruguayan opposition candidate Tabare Vazquez captured enough votes to win the presidency in today&#39;s first-round vote, exit polls from the country&#39;s four-biggest pollsters showed.
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BUENOS AIRES - The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wife yesterday, as first lady Cristina Fern&#xE1;ndez de Kirchner crushed 13 opposition candidates on the promise of adhering to the political principles that made President N&#xE9;stor Kirchner one of Latin America's most popular leaders.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko narrowly won the first round of Ukraine's presidential poll, official results show.
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A coalition of leftist elements is predicted to win Uruguay&#39;s presidential election on Sunday - ending the conservative parties&#39; dominance of more than 170 years.
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Uruguayan emigrants caught the ferry from Argentina and cowboys from vast cattle ranches galloped their horses to town to vote in elections on Sunday that could give Uruguay its first leftist leader.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won Argentina's election on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman president, television exit polls showed.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai has won outright victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election according to preliminary results, the interim leader&#39;s supporters and chief rival said Sunday.
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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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SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela  - Uruguay shrugged off their shock opening defeat by Peru to beat shot-shy Bolivia 1-0 in the Copa America on Saturday.
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Uruguay tapped Tabare Vazquez as its first socialist president in Sunday&#39;s election, joining a growing group of South American countries embracing leftist governments.
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Spain&#39;s Anabel Medina Garrigues eliminated Paola Suarez in the top-seeded Argentine&#39;s opening match at the US$225,000 (euro176,000) SEAT Open, rallying to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday and reach the quarterfinals.
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KABUL : Interim leader Hamid Karzai has won the required number of votes for outright victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election, his supporters and his chief rival said.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.
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Interim President Hamid Karzai has won Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the spokesman for the election commission said.
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Tabare Vazquez was poised to become Uruguay&#39;s first leftwing president yesterday after campaigning for the more equitable distribution of wealth and social justice in a country crippled by a recent economic crisis.
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Argentina on course for first elected woman president after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declares victory.
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Socialist Tabare Vazquez scored a historic victory late on Sunday in Uruguay&#39;s presidential voting as exit polls showed his coalition that includes former guerrilla fighters with more than 50 per cent of votes cast.