Ecuador votes to decide president
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Ecuador holds a run-off vote to choose a new president, with both candidates neck-and-neck in opinion polls.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appeared to have clinched Sunday's run-off election after polls showed he surged past his banana magnate rival.
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Uzbeks were casting ballots Sunday in a tightly controlled presidential vote that is widely expected to extend the rule of one of the most autocratic and anti-Western leaders in strategic Central Asia.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory after Sunday's run-off to elect the country's eighth president in a decade, three exit polls showed.
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Gambians go to the polls to elect a president, with incumbent Yahya Jammeh favourite to win.
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador  - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa led thousands in a march on Saturday to mark his first year in office, in a show of support for the leftist leader despite his falling approval ratings.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's Rafael Correa, a leftist vowing to rein in political elites, has won Sunday's presidential run-off with 57 percent of the vote after most ballot boxes were tallied, a top election official said on Tuesday.
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Leftist Rafael Correa has won Ecuador's run-off presidential election, a top electoral official says.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Tens of thousands of protesterstook to the streets of Quito on Wednesday to protest what theycall the heavy-handed tactics of President Lucio Gutierrez anddemanded that he reverse his firing of the country's SupremeCourt.
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Argentines will soon begin voting in an election to choose a successor to President Nestor Kirchner.
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The referendum on Aug. 15, 2004 rejected the petition to revoke the mandate of President Hugo Chavez. The observation of The Carter Center mission confirms the results announced by the National Election Council
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Leftist economist Rafael Correa, who calls himself a friend of Venezuela's anti-U.S. leader Hugo Chavez, officially was declared president-elect on Monday by Ecuador's top electoral court.
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East Timorese voted on Saturday in a  parliamentary election that could put the impoverished, young  country on a new path after communal violence last year.
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Armenians voted on Tuesday in a presidential election that Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan, given credit for swift economic growth and rising living standards, is expected to win.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico at last will have a final decision today on its disputed July 2 presidential race, with the nation's top electoral court expected to declare ruling party candidate Felipe Calder&#xF3;n president-elect.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appeared close to victory in Sunday's presidential run-off election after exit polls and unofficial counts showed he had surged ahead of his banana magnate rival.
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Uruguayan opposition candidate Tabare Vazquez captured enough votes to win the presidency in today&#39;s first-round vote, exit polls from the country&#39;s four-biggest pollsters showed.