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Brazil to pick successor for popular president (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff wave to supporters as first lady  Marisa Leticia Silva, bottom center, looks on during a campaign rally in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outskirts  of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Brazil will hold general elections on Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country’s first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor.


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Poles to pick president in final round of voting (AP)

July 4th, 2010

Poles vote Sunday in an election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, in what looks to be a tight race between his bereaved twin and acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, pictured(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)AP - Poles vote Sunday in a presidential runoff election that pits the identical twin brother of the last head of state, who was killed in a plane crash, against…

Relief greets Obama pick for new war commander (AP)

June 24th, 2010

Gen. David Petraeus listens as President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2010, where the president announced that Petraeus would replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - America’s Afghan and international allies embraced the choice of Gen. David Petraeus to run the war in Afghanistan, hoping the architect of the Iraq surge will seamlessly pursue the…

Poles pick successor to president killed in crash (AP)

June 20th, 2010

A man holds a child as he leaves a polling booth to vote in presidential elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010. More than two months after Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash, Poles are voting to choose his successor. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - More than two months after Poland’s president was killed in a plane crash, Poles are voting Sunday to choose his successor. Polls show that his surviving twin brother…

Chavez party members pick candidates (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, top, waves to supporters after casting his ballot at a polling station in Caracas, Sunday, May 2, 2010.  Chavez joined other members of Venezuela's ruling party who went to the polls on Sunday to choose candidates for upcoming congressional elections, a crucial step aimed at preventing infighting ahead of the vote. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - President Hugo Chavez’s ruling party rallied hundreds of thousands of members to a congressional election primary vote Sunday — a key step in preventing infighting as they battle…

Shiite, secular blocs pick up provinces in Iraq (AP)

March 13th, 2010

Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have been released from seven of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A secular bloc led by former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi and a Shiite religious bloc both appeared to pick up votes as new results were released in…