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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party says it will reject the result of the presidential election, if reports of the outcome are confirmed.
The Movement for Democratic Change says its leader gained more than 50% of the vote but election officials say he did..
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BBC News
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lashed out at his opponents and vowed to pursue plans for constitutional reform despite his referendum defeat.
Speaking on state television, Mr Chavez used offensive language to heap scorn on the opposition's surpri..
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MSNBC
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The opposition was deflated after dramatically losing a 2004 recall referendum and then last year's presidential election. But Sunday's outcome triggered euphoria among the university students, church leaders, politicians and even former Chávez allies wh..
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BBC News
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won Sierra Leone's presidential election run-off, say national election commission officials.
He won 54.6% of the vote while his rival Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP..
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BBC News
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has confirmed he plans to stand again as a presidential candidate.
His previous presidential bid sparked huge protests in May because of his Islamist roots. Secular institutions, including the army, opposed him...
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CNN
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Ethiopian prosecutors demanded the death penalty on Monday for 38 opposition officials and journalists convicted of trying to overthrow the government, treason and inciting violence.
"Since they have been found guilty on all counts, they should be puni..
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SF Gate
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A leading opposition candidate in Nigeria's presidential election has been omitted from the official list of candidates, released Thursday by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The candidate, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was barred becau..
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BBC News
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will not renew the licence for the country's second largest TV channel which he says expires in March 2007...
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission is due to start verifying the country's delayed presidential election results.
Representatives from both the governing Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change will oversee the collating process in Harar..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party has won a majority of seats in parliament, displacing the ruling Zanu-PF, final official results show.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) took 99 seats, while President Robert Mugabe's party polled 97.
With pre..
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BBC News
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The main opposition MDC in Zimbabwe has released its own results from the presidential election, claiming they prove it won.
Party Secretary General Tendai Biti told a news conference that MDC leader Morgan Tsvangarai had won 50.3%, so avoiding a run-o..
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BBC News
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Zimbabweans are anxiously awaiting more results from Saturday's election, which have been slow to emerge.
An independent monitoring group says opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai got 49% of the vote - just short of the 50% needed to avoid a run-off...
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BBC News
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A court in Georgia has sentenced former defence minister and opposition politician Irakli Okruashvili to 11 years in jail in absentia.
Mr Okruashvili, currently living in France, was found guilty of extortion.
Mr Okruashvili says the charges against..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's police chief has warned he will not let opposition "puppets" take power in elections later this month, state media reports.
Augustine Chihuri said President Robert Mugabe's redistribution of white-owned land would never be reversed.
Mr Mu..
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BBC News
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A Nigerian judge has dismissed both opposition petitions asking that President Umaru Yar'Adua's election last year be annulled.
Opposition candidate Gen Muhammadu Buhari had said the ballot did not take place in 29 of the 31 states.
While former Vic..
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CNN
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he intends to remain in office and work with the new government, despite the trouncing that the country's parliamentary elections handed his ruling party and calls by the opposition to step down. In an interview p..
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BBC News
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Parliament in Kenya has met for the first time since disputed elections, amid continuing tension between government and opposition.
Tight security is in force in the capital, Nairobi, with soldiers deployed around the parliament building and some roads..
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BBC News
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The opposition in Kenya has called for a re-run of the presidential election last week, which it says was rigged.
An opposition spokesman said President Mwai Kibaki should step aside, and a transitional administration should hold elections within three..
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CNN
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Kenya's opposition party has called for a new presidential election to settle a disputed vote that has sparked days of deadly riots, while protesters gathered on street corners in the capital's slums to prepare for a rally on Friday. Anyang Nyongo, Secret..
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CNN
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Kenya's opposition party has called off Thursday's banned public rally and urged its supporters to go home, but hopes to stage another one next week. Supporters and leaders of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement had been blocked from getting to the..
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