Lebanese MPs delay vote again
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The presidential election in Lebanon is postponed for a ninth time, despite more efforts to resolve the crisis.
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Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed from Saturday until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilize the country.
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A parliamentary session to elect a new president was delayed Sunday after talks between Syrian officials and Lebanon's feuding factions failed to break a presidential deadlock.
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Election of successor to Emile Lahoud is postponed after parliamentary boycott by political wing.
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Lebanon's opposition, led by Syrian-backed Hezbollah, called on Monday for early parliamentary elections after the ruling anti-Syrian coalition refused to meet its demand for veto power in government.
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Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, announcing the 11th delay to a vote first due to have been held more than three months ago.
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Lebanon's opposition, led by the Syrian-backed Hezbollah, called on Monday for early parliamentary elections after the anti-Syrian majority coalition refused to agree to its demand for a national unity government.
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A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until December 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.
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On October 9, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) voted once again to postpone the resumption of normal relations with the Washington-installed Haitian government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, citing the latter&#39;s campaign of persecution against ousted
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Pakistan's parliamentary elections have been postponed until February 18 because of unrest following the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The elections were originally set for January 8. Both opposition parties wanted the elections to go ahead as scheduled, hoping to capitalize on the sympathy following Bhutto's killing.
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MPs in Beirut vote to extend the Lebanese president's term despite a UN warning to Syria not to interfere in Lebanon.
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National elections â already twice delayed â are scheduled for April. The interim government voted to abolish the monarchy, meeting a key demand of former Maoist rebels.
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DUKAN, Iraq -- Leading Sunni politicians and representatives of Iraq's prime minister and president called yesterday for Iraq's national election to be postponed until order is restored in the violence-racked Sunni Arab heartland, the strongest signal yet that the ballot might not take place in January as scheduled.
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Lebanese factions backed by Damascus are set to boycott a presidential election in parliament on Tuesday, blocking the anti-Syrian majority from choosing a new head of state.
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Hezbollah and its allies said on Monday they would boycott a parliamentary session to prevent the anti-Syrian majority from electing a new president for Lebanon.
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The election of Lebanon's president must  go ahead on Saturday as scheduled, French President Nicolas  Sarkozy told his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in a phone  call, Sarkozy's spokesman said on Friday.
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Anti-Syrian lawmakers gathered at Lebanon's parliament under tight security on Tuesday for a session intended to elect a new president, but an opposition boycott was expected to foil any vote.