Turkmens vote for leader in first contested poll
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Turkmenistan voted for a new president on Sunday in its first contested election, but one virtually certain to be won by an aide to the country's former authoritarian leader who died in December.
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Millions of Turks flocked to vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as crucial to the future direction of this large Muslim but secular democracy straddling Europe and the Middle East.
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Afghans began voting on Saturday in a  historic poll that will give the mountainous Islamic nation on  the ancient Silk Road its first elected president and perhaps  end over a quarter-century of war.
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Voting has begun in Afghanistan for the first direct presidential election in the country's history.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turks began voting on Sunday in a parliamentary election pitting the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party against nationalists who disagree strongly over the future path of the secular Muslim country.
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Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov became gas-rich Turkmenistan's new president on Wednesday, pledging to follow a path set by late authoritarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov and to respect existing energy contracts.
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Turks began voting on Sunday in a referendum that will decide whether future presidents are elected directly by the people instead of by parliament.
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Voting started in Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections which are expected to be dominated by the parties supporting President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled this oil-rich central Asian nation since the late Soviet era.
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Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is declared the winner of Turkmenistan's presidential elections.
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Turkmenistan was choosing a new president in its first contested election on Sunday but the outcome was beyond doubt and diplomats say they expect at best only gradual change in the Central Asian state.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament began voting Sunday for a new interim president for the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in a stadium in neighboring Kenya.
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Kyrgyz voters went to the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory despite opposition complaints it has slid back on democracy.
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Hamid Karzai has a 45-point lead after the first million votes are counted in the country's presidential election.
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Polling stations were nearly empty Sunday in elections for Turkmenistan's rubber-stamp parliament, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door-to-door in this nation ruled by a former Soviet Communist boss who has been declared president-for-life.
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DAHARIYA, West Bank -- Thousands of Palestinians voted yesterday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in 28 years, with the Islamic group Hamas vying for political power for the first time against Fatah, the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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The Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh was holding a presidential election Thursday amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.
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Uzbeks voted on Sunday in an election widely expected to extend President Islam Karimov's 18-year rule and condemned by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style one-man contest.