Voting starts in East Timor parliamentary election
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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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Afghans have begun heading to the polls in the country&#39;s first direct democratic election, almost three years after the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign.
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Vote counting has begun in Tuesday&#39;s general election in Ghana, where President John Kufuor is widely expected to win re-election.
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Hand-picked voters cast ballots in the United Arab Emirates' first elections on Saturday to choose half the members of a powerless advisory assembly for the Gulf Arab oil exporting nation.
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Montenegrins voted Sunday in the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from Serbia &#151; a ballot that could prove key to the new country's aspirations to become a member of NATO and the European Union.
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Counting was underway across East Timor on Sunday, a day after peaceful legislative elections were held for the first time since the country&#39;s independence in 2002.
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Namibian voters are casting their ballots in the nation&#39;s presidential and parliamentary elections. In Windhoek, people started arriving at the polling stations as early as 5am today.
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Early voting begins in Belarus parliament elections and a referendum on whether the president should stand for a third term.
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Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, started voting on Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who will lead the Balkan country through two years of hard European Union-dictated reforms.
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East Timor&#39;s ruling Fretilin party took an early lead Monday as ballot counting gained momentum after weekend parliamentary polls which EU observers hailed as democratic.
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Indonesians began voting on Monday in a landmark election expected to remove President Megawati Sukarnoputri and install an ex-general who has vowed firmer leadership in fighting terror and boosting the economy.
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Polling begins in the UAE's first elections, in which less than 1% of citizens are eligible to cast a vote.
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East Timor&#39;s ruling Fretilin party kept a slight lead Tuesday with about half the votes counted after weekend legislative elections in the troubled young nation, the official tally showed.
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Nearly four million Papua New Guineans began voting in general elections Saturday, with no immediate reports of the violence which marred the last poll in 2002.
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Polls have opened in Hong Kong&#39;s legislative election, which pits pro-Bejing party candidates against those who favor greater democracy for the territory.
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ABOUT 140 million Indonesians are expected to vote today in the country&#39;s first direct presidential election, with incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri hoping for a late surge of support to cling to office.
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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.