Tight security for Chechnya poll
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Chechnya is to elect a new president, three months after the last one was killed in a bomb attack.
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Polling stations have closed in Chechnya, in an election expected to crown a Kremlin-backed career police officer as the new leader of the breakaway Caucasus republic.
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Afghanistan's presidential election will  be held on time, President Hamid Karzai said on Monday, despite  rival candidates' fears the lack of security was hampering  their campaigns and undermining voting legitimacy.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman won  Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, according to early  results from a tense poll marked by a bomb blast in which only  the attacker was killed.
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Chechnya will hold parliamentary elections in April or May, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing a top official, a step in the Kremlin's political strategy to undermine separatist rebels.
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Chechnya has elected Moscow&#39;s clear favorite, Alu Alkhanov, as president, with nearly 74 percent of the vote, the BBC reported Monday.
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted Sunday for a  new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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More than 100,000 Afghan and foreign security forces were on high alert Friday, the day before the country&#39;s first direct presidential election after more than two decades of war.
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MOSCOW: Attacks by Chechen militants in Grozny, left 22 people dead including policemen and injured several others. Several Chechen guerrillas attacked a police station and polling station in the north of
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OISKHARA, Russia - A man tried to bring a suspicious package to a polling station in Chechnya on Sunday during a presidential election, then died in an explosion as he ran away, the head of the Chechen election commision said on Russian television.    The Chechens voted for a president to replace the Kremlin-backed leader who was killed in a bomb blast in May...
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Elaborate security plans have been laid out across Afghanistan to ensure the success of the country&#39;s first presidential election scheduled to take place Saturday, US officials said yesterday.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a  possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the  difficult task of providing enough security without scaring  voters away from the polling stations.
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As the voting gets underway, in what is expected to be a tight race, there are already election fears of fraud. Many are worried that the PSD (Social Democrats) might attempt to manipulate the voting in some way.
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A glance at Chechnya, which holds a presidential election Sunday, and its conflict. Russian authorities have expressed concern that separatist rebels could carry out attacks linked to the election to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Russian president killed by a bombing in May.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Chechnya ahead of presidential elections next Sunday in the southern republic where rebels are fighting to create an independent Islamic state, Interfax reported.
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Pakistan's voters head to the polls amid tight security and tension
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President Vladimir Putin told Russia's  state security service on Wednesday to raise its guard against  outside attempts to meddle in a March election which is  expected to bring to power his hand-picked successor.