Hand-picked voters cast ballots in Dubai poll
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Hand-picked voters cast their ballots in the United Arab Emirates on Monday in the second phase of elections for an advisory council, the first in the Gulf Arab state's history.
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&quot;The Oslo peace accords had specified that Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem be allowed to take part in elections. They did vote in the first and so far only elections in 1996.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted Thursday  in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly  three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next  month to choose Yasser Arafat's successor.
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A Friday vote was seen as a regional test for political Islam in the Arab world.
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Elections in the Middle East, it appears, have increasingly become a tool used by authoritarian leaders to claim legitimacy.
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French voters overseas cast the first ballots Saturday in a parliamentary election predicted to hand a resounding majority to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ambitious reform programme.
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The Arab world's slow lurch toward democracy will take another step forward this weekend when the wealthy United Arab Emirates holds the first election in its 35-year history.
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A coalition of largely Shiite parties tacitly backed by the country's most influential religious leader won the largest number of votes in election results released Sunday, but fell short of the majority that many of its leaders had expected.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Jubilant Iraqi exiles around the world cast their ballots yesterday in Iraq's parliamentary election, coping with tight security and other hardships to take part in the historic event.
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In the city, some 250,000 to 300,000 immigrants-turned-US citizens will vote Tuesday.
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More than 140,000 Palestinians in the West Bank are heading to 26 ballots on Thursday to elect mayors and municipal councils for their towns and villages.
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Middle East News, RAMALLAH, West Bank, Palestinians voted on Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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ABU DIS, West Bank  - Palestinians in 26 municipalities across the West Bank began voting in the first council elections in 28 years which will act as an electoral barometer for next month&#39;s presidential ballot.
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Saudi men voted in a municipal election  in the capital Riyadh Thursday, the first stage in an  unprecedented nationwide vote as the absolute monarchy inches  toward reform.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians hold municipal  elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a  dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser  Arafat's successor next month.
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Voting began on Saturday in some overseas French territories in the final round of parliamentary elections expected to give conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy a big majority for his reform plans.
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Americans living overseas started lining up in hotels and coffee shops Tuesday to vote for Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, while others Â for the first time ever Â cast ballots online.