Hand-picked voters cast ballots in Dubai poll
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Hand-picked voters cast their ballots in the United Arab Emirates on Monday in the second phase of elections for an advisory council, the first in the Gulf Arab state's history.
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Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday  in a legislative election seen as a referendum on greater  democracy and a test of popularity for China's communist rulers  in the former British colony.
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Palestinians have voted in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades in a dress rehearsal for next month&#39;s presidential ballot to choose former president Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- Confounding cynics, the Palestinians have embarked on an election process that could make history as the first truly democratic ballot ever held in the Arab world.
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Thousands of Palestinians crammed polling stations in West Bank towns to vote in municipal elections, the first in nearly 30 years and the first time the ruling Fatah movement and the Islamic militant group Hamas competed for voter support.
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Palestinians voted Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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The people of Najaf, the symbolic heart of Shiite Islam, came out in force to vote in Sunday's election.
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Voters are due to cast their ballots on Wednesday in key elections in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Voters in the Gulf state of Bahrain go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new parliament.
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Wahab Murad, 43, flew in from Denver with his 20-year-old son, Dana, to cast absentee ballots in Iraq's first independent election in nearly 50 years. As in many polling places across America, the mood was upbeat as expatriates danced, sang and celebrated.
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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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Thousands of British-based Iraqis were turning out to vote as overseas polling began in Iraq's historic election, with many exiles gleeful at the chance to shape their country's future.
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Pakistanis cast their votes in parliamentary elections on Monday amid fears of violence, accusations of vote-rigging and surveys indicating opposition parties could fare well.
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Bahrainis began voting in the small Gulf state's national elections on Saturday, amid tension between the government and the Shi'ite Muslim opposition which boycotted polls in the pro-Western kingdom in 2002.
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Turnout in Sunni Arab areas during last weekend's landmark elections was higher than expected, with lines forming outside polling centers in insurgency strongholds like Fallujah and Mosul, the chief U.N. election expert in Iraq said Wednesday.
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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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The ballot for the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 may list about 200 parties or individuals, each identified on a line with a name and a logo, but each voter will have a single vote to cast.