Polls open in SKorea election, conservative seen ahead
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Polls opened Wednesday in South Korea's presidential election, with a business-friendly conservative tipped to end a decade of left-leaning rule despite an upcoming fraud investigation.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is likely to return to talks on its nuclear weapons development now that the US election is over, South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said today.
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South Korean and U.S. officials are discussing a possible visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell to Seoul next week, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, just two weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
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Poland's ruling conservatives  pushed ahead with attempts to build a new majority in  parliament on Friday and said they would seek early elections  if no deal was struck by Monday.
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Swedish citizens gear up to vote in what could be the closest fought general election in decades.
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Early returns on Saturday showed hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's conservative opponents leading in elections for local councils and a powerful clerical body, widely considered a test of popular approval for the hardline leader.
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Swedes began voting on Sunday in a  parliamentary election in which a centre-right alliance could  take power from the Social Democrats and their allies on  pledges to fine-tune the country's welfare system.
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South Korean voters head to the polls on Wednesday, ready to end 10 years of liberal presidents by picking a former businessman who promises run the world's 13th largest economy like a CEO.
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Voters in Taiwan are set to elect MPs in a contest seen as a barometer for March's presidential election.
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Polls opened in Morocco on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message that has drawn wide support in the north African kingdom.
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Polls have opened for Indonesia&#39;s first direct presidential election. Election observers say they are impressed with the six-month electoral process, which also chose members of the national assembly and local councils.
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Sweden's election looked set to go   down to the wire on Sunday, with television projections giving   a center-right alliance vowing to trim the welfare state a   razor thin lead over the ruling Social Democrats.
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Sweden's conservative party heads into elections next week a shadow of what it once was: a group determined to overhaul the country's lavish welfare state. And its shift toward the middle has given it the best chance in 12 years of retaking the government.
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Early results Friday showed interim leader Hamid Karzai far ahead of his chief rivals in Afghanistan&#39;s first democratic presidential election after a quarter-century of war.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 28 -- With vote-counting underway in what appears to be the closest and most open presidential contest in this nation's history, Raila Odinga, a fiery opposition leader, appeared to hold a strong lead over President Mwai Kibaki, according to early returns broadcast Friday on three m...
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South Koreans went to the polls on  Wednesday expected to choose as president a former CEO vowing  to knock the economy into shape and stand up to the North, but  whose authority could be weakened by a fraud investigation.
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Thousands of kilometers away in Afghanistan itself, security experts, independent analysts and candidates are equally amazed that the polls will go ahead on October 9, in spite of insecurity and few guarantees that the vote will be free and fair.