Conservative wins SKorea presidency by landslide
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Lee Myung-Bak won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide Wednesday, as voters backed the former Hyundai chief executive to revive the economy and disregarded fraud allegations against him.
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South Korea's incoming conservative government agreed Wednesday not to scrap the ministry handling reconciliation with North Korea, following fierce opposition from liberals who have a majority in parliament.
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Right-wing businessman Lee Myung-bak won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide on Wednesday with his promises to make voters better off and stand up to North Korea, TV exit polls showed.
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The governing pro-Western coalition led by Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic won last weekend's parliamentary elections, Montenegro's election authorities said Tuesday.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia  - Prime Minister Anton Rop conceded defeat Sunday after preliminary results showed the centre-right opposition winning Slovenia's parliamentary elections.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Incumbent Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the body organizing the vote has said.
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South Koreans voted on Wednesday in a presidential election expected to be won by a conservative former CEO who has vowed to help business and get tough on North Korea, but whose leadership may be undermined by a fraud probe.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 Â Sweden appeared set to sweep away 12 years of center-left government today, voting to reject its longtime prime minister, Goran Persson, in favor of a conservative candidate who has pledged to renew the Swedish welfare state.
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South Korean conservative candidate and former businessman Lee Myung-bak took 50.3 percent of the vote to win Wednesday's presidential election, according to an exit poll by state-owned KBS TV and private MBC TV.
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Denmark's centre-right led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen wins a new term as the opposition admit defeat.
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SEOUL, Dec. 17 -- Lee Myung-bak was cruising toward a landslide victory in Wednesday's South Korean presidential election when he skidded over the weekend into a speed bump built out of his own words.
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With nearly all of the ballots counted, Afghan Interim President Hamid Karzai appears to have won a landslide victory in the October 9 election.
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"Socialists win power but Popular Party strongest in votes after landslide in Madrid."  Spain's ruling Socialists and opposition conservatives both claimed victory in weekend local elections that were seen as primaries for next year's general elections. via The China Post
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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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South Koreans vote on Wednesday in a presidential election expected to be won by a conservative former CEO who says he'll help business and get tough on North Korea, but whose leadership may be undermined by a fraud probe.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan  -- Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, dealing a humiliating blow to the government's hardline China policies two months before a presidential poll.
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Opposition leader Fredrik Reinfeldt   declared victory for his centre-right alliance on Sunday in   Sweden's election, ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule by   vowing to lower taxes and trim the welfare state.