Ben Ali looks to sweep Tunisian elections
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Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was widely expected to win a fourth term on Monday in presidential and parliamentary elections marred by a boycott by an opposition party that called the vote a sham.
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TEHRAN -- A former Iranian president wanted in Argentina for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center was leading the race for a seat on a powerful clerical body, according to partial results of elections reported by state-run television yesterday. Hashemi Rafsanjani, considered an opponent of the current hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had more than 1.5 million votes for ...
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A worker cleans a hairdresser&#39;s shop window decorated with electoral posters of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in the Medina of Tunis, Oct. 23.
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Hard-liners raced ahead Thursday in an election to decide who will control the Northern Ireland Assembly _ and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.Comment
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Iraq's most powerful-looking electoral  bloc unveiled a slate of candidates for its election campaign  on Thursday, throwing down a gauntlet to minority Sunni Arabs  who complain next month's vote will be marred by violence.
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Tunisian polls closed Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections widely expected to be won by the incumbent president and his party.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to scrape an election win on Saturday in a vote the West will scrutinize for fairness, but polls differ on whether his victory will be big enough to avoid a second round.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes a surprise call for democratic reform in Tunisia.
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BAGHDAD -- Under the guidance of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite cleric, Shi'ite parties presented a list yesterday of 228 candidates for next month's elections. Minority Sunni Arabs, who had been favored under Saddam Hussein, must decide whether to join the race or renounce a vote that will help determine the country's future.
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Tunisians have voted in general elections boycotted by several opposition parties but praised by President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia&#39;s leader for 17 years, as a boost to democracy.
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Tunisians are casting ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections widely expected to be won by the current president and his party.
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TUNIS : Tunisians head to the polls to cast their ballots in legislative and presidential elections in which the ruling party of long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is widely tipped to come out victorious.
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Spain would make full efforts to help push the Iraqi election held on schedule, although the country keeps "very concerned" about the current situation in Iraq, a senior Spanish official said Monday in El ...
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FEZ, Morocco  - When asked who will get his vote in Morocco's parliamentary elections next month, 70-year-old Mohamed Mahbou looks up from his game of cards and anger flashes in his eyes.
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Iraq will put some of Saddam Hussein's  top lieutenants on trial next week, a month before a national  election many hope will lay the ghosts of his rule, interim  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Tuesday.
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Tunisians voted on Sunday in general  elections boycotted by several opposition parties but praised  by President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's leader for 17  years, as a boost to democracy.
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The leader of Nepal's former Maoist rebels says  there are forces trying to disrupt forthcoming elections.