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AP - Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament Saturday, the first election since a fraud-marred presidential ballot last year cast doubt on the legitimacy…

AP - Men in traditional tunics and women covered in sky-blue burqas trickled into polling centers to vote in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election Saturday, as scattered attacks and the closure of…

AP - Men in traditional tunics and women covered in sky-blue burqas trickled into polling centers to vote in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election Saturday, as scattered attacks and the closure of…

AP - Polling stations have formally opened for voting in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election after a scattering of early morning rocket attacks apparently aimed to disrupt the vote.

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AP - Police set up extra checkpoints across Afghanistan on Friday to scan for suicide bombers and insurgents a day ahead of parliamentary polling that will test the government’s ability…

AP - Mortar rounds fired by suspected Islamist insurgents crashed into Somalia’s government complex on Thursday, killing three government soldiers, wounding a member of parliament and triggering a counterattack that…

AP - Election officials on Thursday confirmed that a critical presidential runoff in Guinea has been postponed by at least two weeks as the warehouse storing voting materials for the…

AP - Up to 30 insurgents have been killed in fighting ahead of this week’s parliamentary elections in Afghanistan which the Taliban want to undermine, NATO and Afghan officials said…

AP - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was re-elected president of the ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday, surviving a challenge from a veteran powerbroker and sparing Japan another leadership change…

Time.com - The country has voted to reform the old, military-inspired constitution but has it only given more power to Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Prime Minister?

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