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Partial Afghan poll results to be released (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

An Afghan woman walks past election posters of parliamentarian candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. Afghan authorities said it was too early to judge the validity of the country's parliamentary ballot despite observers' reports of widespread fraud in the vote that was to help consolidate its shaky democracy. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Afghan officials plan to release the first partial results Thursday from last week’s parliamentary election amid mounting allegations of fraud in a poll seen as a test of…

Early results: New constitution for Kenya likely (AP)

August 5th, 2010

A voter waits outside a polling station to vote in a referendum on the constitution at River Park Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Kenyans formed long lines before sunrise across the country Wednesday to vote on a new constitution that would reduce the powers of the presidency in the nation's first ballot since postelection violence left more than 1,000 dead. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)AP - Preliminary results announced Thursday showed that Kenya’s new constitution is likely to pass overwhelmingly, but opponents of the new draft questioned the returns.


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Asian stocks up on results of Europe’s bank tests (AP)

July 26th, 2010

Specialists Evan Solomon, left, and Mario Picone, right, watch their screens at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, July 23, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Asian stock markets rose Monday amid relief that most European banks passed the much-anticipated “stress tests” aimed at clearing up worries over the region’s financial system.


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Europe’s media react to bank stress test results (Reuters)

July 24th, 2010

Reuters - Just seven European banks failed a health check and were ordered to raise their capital by 3.5 billion euros ($4.5 billion), confirming fears the continent’s long-awaited stress test…

Banks, markets await European stress test results (AP)

July 23rd, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks over the desk during a press conference ahead of the annual summer break in Berlin Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Merkel is seeking to counter skepticism on Europe's bank stress tests ahead of their publication, saying they are realistic. The results of tests on 91 banks across the continent are to be published Friday. The exercise is meant to lift the cloud of uncertainty surrounding the exposure of European banks to the debt crisis but some analysts have questioned whether the tests will be tough enough. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Ninety-one banks. Twenty countries. One exam. So who’s going to flunk the European stress test?


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Europe to go public with bank stress test results (AP)

July 23rd, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks over the desk during a press conference ahead of the annual summer break in Berlin Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Merkel is seeking to counter skepticism on Europe's bank stress tests ahead of their publication, saying they are realistic. The results of tests on 91 banks across the continent are to be published Friday. The exercise is meant to lift the cloud of uncertainty surrounding the exposure of European banks to the debt crisis but some analysts have questioned whether the tests will be tough enough. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Europe faces another moment of truth in its simmering debt crisis on Friday as regulators release the results of “stress tests” on 91 banks across the continent, an…

Iraq’s Supreme Court ratifies election results (AP)

June 1st, 2010

A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (L-R) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal waiting to meet their mothers for the first time since their arrest, in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 20. Two of the three US hikers held in Iran for nearly a year on spying charges were engaged in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, their mothers said Monday.(AFP/PRESS TV)AP - Iraq’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ratified the results of the nation’s March 7 parliamentary election, officially declaring the secular Iraqiya alliance the vote’s biggest winner.


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Aquino leading in early presidential race results (AP)

May 10th, 2010

A policeman secures the crime scene as the body of a Philippine Marine lies in the pavement after a firefight Monday, May 10, 2010 in Bacoor town in Cavite province, south of Manila, Philippines. A Philippine Marine and a civilian acting as a congressional candidate's bodyguard were killed in a clash outside a police station, a local police said. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - Early official results from the Philippine elections show Sen. Benigno Aquino III, the son of democracy icons, leading in the presidential race.


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Northern Ireland’s Election: Surprise Results, Failed Alliances (Time.com)

May 8th, 2010

Time.com - In the most surprising result in Northern Ireland’s electoral history, a sure bet was unseated and a promising alliance went unrewarded

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Iraqi PM says he will challenge election results (AP)

March 26th, 2010

Iraqi men watch a live broadcast of the press conference of Faraj al-Haidari, chief of the Independent High Electoral Commission in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. Results released so far in Iraq's parliamentary election show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki trailing his main rival, former prime minister Ayad Allawi. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Iraq’s prime minister says he does not accept election results showing his secular challenger winning more seats in the country’s parliamentary election.


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