Serbs choose president in key vote
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A pro-Western and a nationalist candidate faced off Sunday in a closely contested Serbian presidential race that could determine whether the troubled Balkan nation will move closer to the European Union or sink back into isolation.
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Serbia voted on Sunday in a knife-edge presidential election that could decide whether it turns its back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the breakaway province of Kosovo.
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Loyalists of Slobodan Milosevic were poised to win at least one city Sunday as Serbs voted for mayors and other municipal posts in runoff elections.
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BUCHAREST: Romanians voted for a new president on Sunday with fighting corruption and joining the EU the main themes in a run-off round pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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Bosnians appeared split in key elections on the country's future Sunday, with Muslims and Catholic Croats voting for politicians who want to unify the Balkan nation, but Serbs backing a candidate who advocates ethnic division, early results showed.
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Voting began on Sunday in Serbia's  presidential election, a tight race between pro-Western  president Boris Tadic and hard-line challenger Tomislav  Nikolic.
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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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Voting began on Sunday in Serbia's presidential election, a tight race between pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hard-line challenger Tomislav Nikolic.
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Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic won the most votes in the first round of Serbia's presidential election on Sunday but not enough to win outright, exit polls showed, setting up a run-off with pro-Western President Boris Tadic.
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BELGRADE, Feb 4 (IPS) - Serbian voters have decided, in the tightest  run-off so far, that their president for the next five years  remains incumbent Boris Tadic, seen as the leader who can take  the biggest nation in the Balkans closer to the EU.
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Croatians voted for president Sunday, with liberal incumbent Stjepan Mesic expected to win a second term and help shepherd the former Yugoslav republic's planned 2009 entry into the European Union.
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Deeply divided Bosnians went to the polls in a general election on Sunday to choose the leaders who will guide their country after a decade of international supervision.
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Bosnians turned out in large numbers  for parliamentary elections on Sunday to choose politicians who  will lead the deeply-divided impoverished Balkan nation after  international supervision ends next year.
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Serbs face a choice between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favoring the West in a presidential election run-off next month.
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Boris Tadic will be sworn in as president of Serbia on Friday, two days before Kosovo declares independence in Serbia's most traumatic moment since it was bombed by NATO in 1999 to end ethnic-cleansing in the province.
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Serbia's pro-Western president won a closely contested election Sunday, edging an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway Kosovo province
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Polls opened in Bosnia on Sunday for  general elections in which voters will choose politicians to  lead the nation after the planned end of international  supervision next year.