Egypt vote shows unease with democracy
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Flawed polls Monday and coming votes in the Middle East are seen by critics as creating only the appearance of reform.
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International election observers say the first round of voting in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election failed to meet a number of democratic standards, but the observers stopped short of calling for the vote to be invalidated.
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TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN -- Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election yesterday in which opposition groups were barred from running, provoking criticism from Europe&#39;s top election watchdog and a fierce defence from authoritarian President Islam Karimov, who
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Elections in Hong Kong on Sunday were a big disappointment as an exercise in democracy. Pro-democracy or independent-minded candidates won about 60 percent of the vote, a stunning victory by any measure except the one applied to this election.
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Pakistanis began voting in parliamentary elections on Monday amid anxiety over further political turmoil and violence.
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Voters in the desert nation of Mauritania went to the polls Sunday with hopes that whoever wins the first presidential election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the country back into totalitarian rule.
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A leading Shiite political figure showed signs of unease on Thursday about the risks that the continuing violence here poses for the elections.
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For many people in the heart of this African nation, Sunday was no day to celebrate the country's first democratic vote in decades. Instead, they stayed away from the polls &#151; either heeding an opposition leader's boycott call or afraid of young men armed with stones.
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Polling stations opened in Tunisia on  Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections boycotted by  several opposition parties and seen as test to the U.S.  administration's drive to boost democracy in the Middle East.
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CAIRO: People in the Middle East reacted with resigned disappointment yesterday to US election results that showed President George W Bush winning four more years in power.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has cast doubt on whether he will run for a fifth term this year, triggering a fresh battle between the old guard and the young reformers in his ruling party.
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Arab governments and people waited Wednesday for the final results of the US presidential elections with mixed feelings, expressing little hope that whichever
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Egypt's ruling party conference yielded no major changes. But formerly taboo issues are being aired.
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This freshly minted democracy is about to hold the first open election in its history, but Saturday&#39;s vote fills Afghans here both with elation and fear.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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HONG KONG: Democrats in Hong Kong yesterday fell short of expectations in legislative elections after voters wary of alienating China&#39;s Communist rulers chose the stability offered by the Beijing camp.
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CAIRO -- Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.