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People in the Irish Republic are voting in a referendum on whether to ratify the European Union reform treaty, in a poll anxiously watched across the EU.
All other 26 member states have left the issue to their parliaments, but Ireland is obliged to hol..
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Max Mosley has won a vote of confidence to stay on as president of motorsport's governing body, the FIA.
More than a third of delegates did not back Mosley at Tuesday's meeting in Paris but he won 103 of 169 votes.
Mosley called the vote following a..
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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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Dmitry Medvedev has celebrated his landslide victory in Russia's presidential vote, amid claims by electoral observers questioning the fairness of the result, according to agency reports. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Medvedev -- President Vlad..
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The future of Italy's prime minister was in doubt Thursday after he decided to risk a confidence vote in the Senate in a final bid to save his government. Romano Prodi, in office for 20 months, has only a slim chance of surviving the vote, and observers h..
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MSNBC
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Two European groups concluded that Sunday's vote "failed to meet many of the commitments and standards that we have," said Goran Lennmarker, president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's parliamentary assembly. He said it was "not..
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President Vladimir Putin has urged Russians to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election, in a televised address.
"I ask you to come to the polls and vote for United Russia," he said.
President Putin, who cannot run for a t..
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's choice for new prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, was overwhelmingly approved in a Friday vote by Russia's lower house of parliament, a live broadcast on state-run TV showed. Zubkov was tapped for the position by Putin last..
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Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in Istanbul in support of secularism in Turkey, amid a row over a vote for the country's next president.
The protesters are concerned that the ruling party's candidate for the post remains loyal to his Islam..
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Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across the country show the European Union Lisbon reform treaty has been rejected.
Tallies are not official, but Mr Ahern says it is clear the No vote is ahead in a vast majority of cons..
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David Cameron accused Gordon Brown of making "so many concessions" in his bid to win the terror detention limit vote the legislation was now "unworkable".
He said the PM's case for extending the limit from 28 to 42 days would be stronger if it had the..
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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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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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MSNBC
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Iranians voted Friday in elections likely to yield little change: Conservatives and allies of the hard-line president are expected to retain control of parliament after many reformists were barred from even running.
As polls opened, state radio urged a..
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy's conservatives are looking to cut deals with adversaries in a bid to win next week's second round of municipal elections after a first-round vote sent a warning to the president. A small, centrist party could be a decisi..
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BBC News
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Embattled Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is to risk a confidence vote in the Senate despite calls for him to resign.
Mr Prodi had been advised by President Giorgio Napolitano to avoid the vote, which the PM is in danger of losing.
Mr Prodi held..
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BBC News
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in parliament following the resignation of an ally from his coalition government.
The vote in the Chamber of Deputies will take place on Wednesday, Green Party leader Angelo Bonelli sai..
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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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BBC News
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has emerged as the top candidate in the vote for the national executive committee (NEC) of South Africa's governing party.
African National Congress (ANC) members voted in the 80-member NEC after sacked Deputy President Jacob..
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BBC News
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Members of South Africa's governing ANC are voting to elect a party leader in a contest between President Thabo Mbeki and his arch-rival Jacob Zuma.
The vote at the party's conference comes after two days of debate that revealed the deep divisions...
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