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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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Zimbabwe's ruling party has been confirmed as the winner of the first of 23 constituencies to complete a recount of votes after March's election.
The electoral commission said Zanu-PF retained its parliamentary seat in Goromonzi West.
The opposition..
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CNN
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of the assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, said Tuesday that he fully intended to take on a political role in his homeland but only after he has completed his studies at Oxford University. The 19-year-old gave his..
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BBC News
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South Korea's ruling party candidate, Chung Dong-young has conceded victory in the country's presidential election.
Exit polls show that Lee Myung-bak, the candidate for the conservative GNP party, has won more than 50% of the vote, beating UNDP candid..
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SF Gate
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Russia's parliamentary elections, which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won handsomely, were "not fair" and failed to meet international democratic standards, according to observers from two leading European organizations.
The groups' scathing asse..
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BBC News
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has said in a keynote speech that the Communist Party he leads has fallen short of the people's expectations.
Speaking at the start of the party's 17th congress, he also lashed out at officials who were extravagant, wasteful..
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Reuters
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Serbia's ultranationalist Radical Party claimed victory in national elections on Sunday, in a voter rejection of Western appeals for closer cooperation on the arrest of war criminals and on Kosovo...
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Yahoo News
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Venezuela's ruling party took the first step Monday toward creating a single pro-government party, a move opponents criticized as a push to consolidate more power in the hands of President Hugo Chavez after his landslide re-election...
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BBC News
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The head of Taiwan's ruling party has met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the highest-level encounter since the two sides split in 1949.
Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung is in China for a six-day landmark visit to discuss cross..
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BBC News
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The head of Taiwan's ruling party has arrived in China for a six-day visit that is being seen as another sign of warming ties between the two sides.
During his visit, Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung will meet top leaders and discu..
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BBC News
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Conservative leader David Cameron says his party's first by-election win since 1982 marks "the end of New Labour".
Mr Cameron told cheering supporters in Crewe and Nantwich that Labour had run a negative, xenophobic and class war campaign that "complet..
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BBC News
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Ministers belonging to one of the main parties in Pakistan have handed in their resignations, just three months after landmark general elections.
Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif decided to pull his PML-N out of the government because of differences over the reinsta..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown says it has been a "bad and disappointing" election for Labour, as the party suffers its worst council results in at least 40 years.
BBC research suggests Labour won 24% of votes cast in England and Wales, behind the Tories on 44% and Lib..
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BBC News
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Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo has won Paraguay's presidential election, ending more than six decades of rule by the Colorado Party.
With results declared in most polling stations, Mr Lugo has 41% of the vote.
His main rival, Blanca Ovel..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has met South African President Thabo Mbeki, the Zimbabwean opposition party says.
An MDC spokesman said the meeting had taken place on Thursday, in preparation for Saturday's regional..
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BBC News
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The former Communist Party chief in Shanghai has been sentenced to 18 years in jail, according to Chinese media.
A court in the northern city of Tianjin found that Chen Liangyu, 61, was guilty of taking bribes and abusing his position, Xinhua news agen..
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BBC News
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South Africa's governing party leader Jacob Zuma has criticised the delay in publishing the results of presidential elections held in Zimbabwe 11 days ago.
Mr Zuma's comments are in stark contrast to those of South Africa's president who said the situa..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has convened a meeting of his ruling party on how to react to presidential poll results, still not officially declared.
A senior member of the party has told the BBC that Saturday's election ended in a "stalemate".
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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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Turkey's constitutional court has decided unanimously that it can hear a case aimed at closing down the country's governing AK Party.
The chief prosecutor earlier filed a petition calling for the party to be closed for "anti-secular activities".
He..
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