Tunisians Go to Polls, Opposition Cries Foul
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Tunisians voted on Sunday in general  elections boycotted by several opposition parties but praised  by President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's leader for 17  years, as a boost to democracy.
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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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Moroccans began voting Friday in parliamentary elections likely to make the country's leading political force an Islamist party that has tapped into people's mounting disillusionment with the parties in power.
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ASHGABAT  - Turkmenistan&#39;s Soviet-style parliamentary elections got a wary response from locals and were denounced by exiled opponents of hardline President Saparmurat Niyazov.
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Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was widely expected to win a fourth term on Monday in presidential and parliamentary elections marred by a boycott by an opposition party that called the vote a sham.
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Bahrainis flocked to the polls in the small Gulf state's national elections on Saturday, amid tension between the government and the Shi'ite Muslim opposition which boycotted the vote in the pro-Western kingdom in 2002.
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IRAQâS electoral commission announced yesterday that the countryâs first polls would be held on January 30, amid rising concern that violence would make voting impossible in many Sunni-dominated areas.
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As thousands of election monitors arrive for Sunday's vote, critics complain of Western interference.
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FEZ, Morocco  - When asked who will get his vote in Morocco's parliamentary elections next month, 70-year-old Mohamed Mahbou looks up from his game of cards and anger flashes in his eyes.
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Iraq chose January 30 for its first democratic election in decades today, but violence in Sunni Muslim areas underlined the challenge of holding polls on time.
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Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali won a landslide re-election victory, official results showed today, in a vote opponents denounced as a manipulation and a democratic flop.
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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.
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Another sweeping re-election win by Tunisia&#39;s long-time president is a slap in the face for democratic reforms and political change in a country run with an iron fist, critics said on Monday.
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A supporter puts up a poster for Bucharest mayor Traian Basescu. BUCHAREST, Romania  -- Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, began voting Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who ...
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Former Soviet Georgia on Saturday voted in a presidential election expected to hand its pro-U.S. leader Mikhail Saakashvili a narrow win but opponents said they may take to the streets in protest.
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CAIRO -- Lines of police barred opposition voters from some polling stations yesterday, and violence erupted among supporters of rival candidates, killing one person and marring the elections for Egypt's upper house of parliament. The balloting was the latest showdown between the ruling party and the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition group. More than 400 Brotherhood members were arrested. ...
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Tunisian polls closed Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections widely expected to be won by the incumbent president and his party.