War-battered Congo conducts historic vote
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Millions of Congolese voted in the country's first multiparty election in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for the tumultuous central Africa region that Congo anchors.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's historic presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy, and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence.    After 25 years of near-constant war, voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time as more than 100,000 soldiers, police, U.S...
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Polling stations open in the Republic of Congo for parliamentary elections, as opposition leaders cry foul.
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Congo&#39;s decision to send thousands of soldiers into its volatile North Kivu province is a high-risk tactic that could exacerbate a simmering regional conflict, analysts say.
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After more than two decades of war, Afghanistan votes today in its first Presidential elections. And with the Taliban threatening to disrupt the polls, security is very tight across the country.
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Congo's newly elected national assembly was installed Friday and party leaders began jockeying for power in the divided group, while a key politician threw his support behind President Joseph Kabila.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- After decades of dictatorship and wars, Congo yesterday swore in its first freely elected president since 1960, installing the son of a rebel leader who promised a new era of order and better days ahead.
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Joseph Kabila is to be inaugurated in DR Congo, following one of Africa's most significant elections for years.
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last month, telling supporters a historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the war-torn nation. agency reported seven policemen were killed when their vehicle drove over a land mine in the southern province of Kandahar.
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Democratic Republic of Congo's first   freely elected parliament in more than 40 years convened on   Friday, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to   appoint a prime minister.
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Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a historic election on Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 35 people in a bloody assault on the poll.
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Afghans have braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
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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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MOLO, Kenya  - It's voting time again in Kenya. And that means a cycle of bloodshed and dislocation that elderly Peter Kaburu has been through too many times before.
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KABUL Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way on Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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Afghans began voting Saturday in a  historic poll which will give the mountainous Islamic nation on  the ancient Silk Road its first elected president and perhaps  end over a quarter-century of war.
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Second place might be good enough for the former rebel trailing President Joseph Kabila in Congo's historic election &#151; at least this time around.