Macedonia vote seen as test of peace process
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SKOPJE, Macedonia Voters are set go to the polls here Sunday in a referendum that will test the success of a three-year-long peace process to allay tensions between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians in this former Yugoslav republic.
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Monday, Ukraine&#39;s Supreme Court examines the disputed election that is testing whether the country can survive as one nation. By Helen Womack | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.
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the chance to choose a government and president expected to take the country into the European Union in 2007. The unfolding drama in neighbouring Ukraine has added an extra tension to the vote.
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Bosnians has begun voting in the fifth general elections since the 1992-1995 war, expected to determine whether the Balkans country will continue on its path towards integration into Europe.
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&quot;The Oslo peace accords had specified that Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem be allowed to take part in elections. They did vote in the first and so far only elections in 1996.
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SKOPJE, Nov 6  - The Macedonian government, buoyed by US recognition of Macedonia&#39;s constitutional name, was pulling out all the stops Saturday to scupper a referendum that could set back the peace process with the restive ethnic Albanian minority.
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Opponents of a Western-backed deal giving Macedonia's Albanian minority greater local powers say they are within striking distance of forcing a referendum on the issue.
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A referendum that would halt moves to give Albanians greater autonomy is under way in Macedonia.
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The election for president in Afghanistan may have brought us one small step closer to worldwide democracy. At least the people there left no doubt that they wanted to vote.
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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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Northern Irelandâs MPs and MEPs are to be given the chance to take part in debates in the Irish Republicâs Parliament if a comprehensive peace process deal is struck in the coming week, it was claimed today.
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Three years after a narrow escape from full-scale civil war, Macedonia holds a referendum on Sunday that its Western friends warn could mark a step backwards on the road to stable, multi-ethnic democracy.
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Serbs vote Sunday in polls in which Kosovo independence is a central issue. Slovenia was once part of Yugoslavia.
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Opponents of a deal giving Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority greater representation say they are confident of forcing a referendum on the issue.
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The Macedonian government survived a confidence vote on Saturday forced by the opposition lawmakers in the parliament, amid brewing political tensions in the Balkan republic.
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Exit polls suggest Georgia's President Saakashvili is on track for re-election, in a vote seen as a test for democracy.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- More than 12,000 observers are moving into place as voting is about to begin Sunday in Ukraine&#39;s controversial repeat of the presidential runoff between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko.