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CNN
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Zimbabwe's electoral commission released the first result Wednesday from a recount of 23 legislative districts, but it still has not said who won the March 29 presidential election. The recount confirmed initial results showing that President Robert Mugab..
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CNN
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Both sides in a disputed presidential election in Kenya have agreed not to pursue a recount or audit of the votes, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday as he suggested a possible solution to a bitter and bloody political crisis. The agreem..
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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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BBC News
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A judge in Zimbabwe is due to rule on whether the country's electoral commission should be forced to release the presidential election results.
Southern African leaders have urged authorities to announce the results of the poll, held more than two week..
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CNN
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There was still no official results Tuesday from the weekend's presidential vote in Zimbabwe, but an election monitoring group projected that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was leading President Robert Mugabe. Tensions are high in the southern Afr..
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BBC News
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Europe's main election watchdog has said it will boycott Russia's presidential election on 2 March.
"We regret that circumstances prevent us from observing this election," said Spencer Oliver, general secretary of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly...
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BBC News
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EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn says a pre-membership deal should be signed with Serbia shortly, but not until presidential elections are over.
Speaking in Brussels before a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Mr Rehn said a "very strong signal of a..
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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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The Russian presidential election will take place on March 2, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, the Federation Council, announced Monday, as opposition leader Garry Kasparov continued his five-day jail term. The election date has been unofficially..
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BBC News
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to separate from his wife of 11 years, Cecilia, the presidential office says.
The separation is "by mutual consent", the Elysee Palace statement said.
Speculation had recently been mounting that the couple were to..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's presidential election can go ahead as planned on Saturday, but the legality of President Musharraf's bid is still in doubt.
The Supreme Court says that no winner can be announced until it has ruled on whether Gen Musharraf can stand for re-e..
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BBC News
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Pakistan is to hold its presidential election on 6 October, the Election Commission has announced.
The last day for filing nominations has been set for 27 September, commission spokesman Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad said.
President Gen Pervez Musharraf h..
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BBC News
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Guatemalans are voting in presidential and parliamentary elections after one of the bloodiest campaigns in the country's history.
More than 50 candidates, activists and their relatives have been murdered in the run-up to the elections.
The two main..
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BBC News
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President Hugo Chavez has presented his plans for changes to Venezuela's constitution, including an end to the presidential term limits.
Current rules mean Mr Chavez is unable to seek re-election and will have to step down when his term ends in 2012...
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BBC News
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Vote counting is under way in Sierra Leone following a high turnout in presidential and parliamentary polls.
The ballots are being counted in public - in full view of the party agents - in the country's 6,000 polling stations.
Seven presidential can..
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Al Jazeera
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The participation rate could help determine the size of the presidential majority, with a high turnout helping the Socialists.
Segolene Royal, the defeated Socialist presidential candidate who topped the presidential vote in almost 200 constituencies,..
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BBC News
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Taiwanese Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang has resigned, less than a week after losing his party's primary for the 2008 presidential election.
Mr Su said he had resigned to allow President Chen Shui-ban to "strategise in the new environment" during his fi..
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CNN
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Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Saturday he would resign, a week after losing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's primary for the 2008 presidential elections.
Su, who becomes the fifth premier to quit during the seven-year tenure of Preside..
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CNN
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Socialist Segolene Royal's resounding defeat in France's presidential elections set off a new round of in-fighting among her allies and questions about whether France's main opposition party needs to move toward the center to survive.
Royal garnered 46..
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