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CNN
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Zimbabwe is anxiously awaiting a key court ruling which may end more than two weeks of election deadlock -- or could send the troubled nation into further turmoil if its government further delays announcing the results of the vote. The High Court is expec..
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CNN
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Zimbabwe's High Court has postponed a ruling on a petition to force release of vote results until Tuesday, the opposition said.
Zimbabwe's High Court convened a hearing Monday to consider the Movement for Democratic Change's petition calling for the re..
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Toronto Star
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Prosecutors say they plan to launch a speedy appeal of a Toronto judge's ruling that Canada's marijuana possession laws are unconstitutional.
CBC News reports the judge made the ruling in dismissing charges against a 29-year-old Toronto man charged wit..
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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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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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USA Today
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Japan's parliament elected political insider Yasuo Fukuda as prime minister Tuesday, thrusting the veteran moderate into the job of battling a resurgent opposition and rebuilding the scandal-scarred ruling party.
As a measure of the troubles that await..
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SF Gate
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Japan's troubled ruling party on Sunday chose as its leader an admittedly uncharismatic party elder known for his dovish foreign policy and quiet political know-how.
Yasuo Fukuda, 71, a longtime salary man in the oil industry before serving as Cabinet..
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SF Gate
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In a fiercely contested election overshadowed by the summer's devastating wildfires, Greece's ruling conservatives appeared headed for a narrow victory today despite widespread public discontent that gave a boost to smaller political parties.
With 94 p..
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SF Gate
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Reviving a confrontation over the role of religion in public life, Turkey's ruling party tried unsuccessfully Monday to have its candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, elected president in the first round of parliamentary balloting.
Gul virtually is..
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BBC News
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Japan's upper house has elected a president from outside the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the first time in more than 50 years.
Lawmakers voted unanimously for Satsuki Eda of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), who becomes the first oppos..
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BBC News
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has accepted his ruling Liberal Democratic Party has suffered "utter defeat" in polls for the upper house of parliament.
But as votes were being counted, Mr Abe said he had no intention of resigning.
Projections suggest the LD..
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USA Today
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party suffered humiliating losses in parliamentary elections Sunday after a string of political scandals, exit polls showed, but Abe said he did not plan to resign.
The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan..
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USA Today
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Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party secured a new mandate in parliamentary elections Sunday, and the prime minister told jubilant supporters he would pursue reforms, fight terrorism and work toward national unity.
The election had pitted the governmen..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's opposition and ruling parties are holding talks aimed at solving the country's economic and political crisis, officials say.
The first talks since South African President Thabo Mbeki was tasked with mediating between the rivals began in Sout..
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CNN
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More than 1,000 die-hard supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra protested a stunning court ruling that banned his party and barred its entire leadership from politics for five years, saying the military-appointed tribunal lacked legitimacy..
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Al Jazeera
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The ruling was an embarrassment for Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the prime minister, and his twin Lech, Poland's president, who have made the law a cornerstone of their political agenda.
The brothers have exerted pressure on the tribunal in the past few days, a..
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BBC News
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Turkey's parliament has given initial approval to electoral reforms brought by the ruling party amid a crisis over the country's secular traditions.
Among other measures, the ruling AK party, which has Islamist roots, wants the president to be elected..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Fresh from a bruising encounter with the judiciary over its MPs' choice of president, Turkey's ruling party today proposed changing the constitution in favour of a directly elected head of state.
The plan came as parliament prepared to vote on dissolvi..
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CNN
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Ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua looked set to win Nigeria's disputed presidential poll on Monday, early results showed, but monitors condemned the vote as a failure and a setback for democracy in Africa.
International and local observers said the..
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USA Today
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If the marigold petals and adoring chants for Rahul Gandhi weren't enough, a huge poster left no doubt: ruling India has been a family business.
On one side were faces from India's past: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi — Rahul's grea..
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