Uzbek Parliamentary Polls Open Without Opposition Parties
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While Ukrainians are heading to the polls, citizens of the fellow ex-Soviet republic of Uzbekistan are also voting, in this case for parliament.
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Uzbek voters prepare to cast ballots in a parliamentary poll from which opponents to President Karimov are barred.
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People in Uzbekistan vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.
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Poll stations officially closed in  Afghanistan's historic presidential election on Saturday with  no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had  vowed to sabotage the process.
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With the country's electorate wanting President Musharraf out, opposition leaders don't expect him to play fair at the polls
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The main opposition candidate in Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election backed off a boycott of the vote, saying Monday that he would accept the findings of an independent commission to look into alleged cheating.    Ethnic Tajik candidate Yunus Qanooni, considered the likely runner-up to interim President Hamid Karzai, made the announcement at his Kabul home on Monday, a day after two other candidates also peeled away from the boycott...
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The Russian government on Sunday denied an opposition leaderâs application to appear on the March 2 presidential ballot, clearing a path for the Kremlinâs favorite candidate to run all but unchallenged.
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Pakistan opposition parties took commanding leads in unofficial returns early Tuesday in Parliamentary elections
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The main opposition party in Kyrgyzstan wins no seats in parliament, despite gaining 8% of the vote.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The main opposition candidate in Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election backed off a boycott of the vote Monday, saying he would accept the formation of an independent commission to look into alleged cheating.    Ethnic Tajik candidate Yunus Qanooni, considered the likely runner-up to interim President Hamid Karzai, made the announcement at his Kabul home, a day after two other candidates also peeled away from the boycott...
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Kyrgyz voters go the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory though it has been criticized as undemocratic by the opposition.
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Parliament adjourned a raucous session Tuesday without voting on amendments to secure a fair rerun of the disputed presidential vote later this month, and throngs of opposition
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Palestinians Saturday startedtheir registration for legislative and presidential elections aswell as local councils, without announcing specified date for theelections.
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Polling stations were nearly empty throughout Sunday&#39;s Parliament election in Turkmenistan, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door to door.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election closed on Saturday without any of the feared  large-scale violence but the vote was thrown into turmoil  instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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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.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, while the Taliban, ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion, vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.