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Ivory Coast to put troops in rebel zones for poll (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Soldiers are briefed ahead of presidential elections at a military camp of Koumassi in Abidjan October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Luc GnagoReuters - Ivory Coast’s military and rebels will deploy 4,000 extra troops in rebel territory to secure a presidential run-off election on November 28, they said on Friday, ahead of…

Afghan poll candidate killed during holiday prayers (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Britain's Prince William talks to soldiers before a Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan in a November 14, 2010 file photo. Prince William is to marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, ending months of media speculation about the couple's plans to wed.  REUTERS/John Stillwell/POOL/files  (BRITAIN - Tags: ROYALS PROFILE)Reuters - A bomb in a graveyard in northern Afghanistan killed a parliamentary candidate and a retired policeman and wounded five, including a mayor, on Tuesday, an intelligence official said.


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Myanmar army-backed party to sweep poll: party official (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - Myanmar’s biggest military-backed party expects to sweep the country’s first election in 20 years, picking up as many as 80 percent of seats in parliament, a senior party…

Myanmar army-backed parties set to sweep rare poll (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Security personnel from Myanmar hold their weapons as they walk on the Moei river bank in Myanmar's Myawaddi town, from across border in Thailand, November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Chaiwat SubprasomReuters - Two military-backed parties looked set to prevail on Monday in Myanmar’s first election in 20 years, a day after a choreographed vote marred by fraud charges and apathy,…

Afghan candidates, lawmakers in new poll protest (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Scores of disgruntled lawmakers and candidates in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, marred by allegations of fraud, renewed protests on Sunday over the September poll and called for a fresh…

Local Greek poll a test for rescue deal (AP)

November 7th, 2010

AP - Greeks have begun voting in a municipal election seen as a crucial test of support for austerity measures in the crisis-hit country.

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Crisis-hit Greece votes under threat of snap poll (AP)

November 7th, 2010

AP - In a major test of support for austerity measures, voters in crisis-hit Greece will cast ballots in local elections Sunday that could force the Socialist government to call…

Ivory Coast holds reconciliation poll at last (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Supporters of Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo, also a presidential candidate for FPI Reuters - Ivory Coast finally holds a long-delayed presidential election on Sunday that is meant to reunite a nation split in two by war and re-launch West Africa’s former star…

Putin and Medvedev closest ever in popularity: poll (Reuters)

October 29th, 2010

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev sits in a cabin of a KAMAZ Master team truck after a ceremony to award members of the team in Naberezhnye Chelny in the Russian republic of Tatarstan, October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Kremlin/Vladimir RodionovReuters - President Dmitry Medvedev has narrowed the gap in approval ratings with his mentor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, widely seen as Russia’s most powerful man, a poll published in…

Brazil exit poll: Rousseff with wide lead in vote (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Dilma Rousseff, presidential candidate for the Workers Party, right, is kissed by Tarso Genro, candidate for Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, next to an electronic ballot box after voting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. 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, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A one-time Marxist guerrilla chosen by Brazil’s most popular leader in history to succeed him took a wide lead in Sunday’s presidential election, but a second-round vote was…