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UN urges Kyrgyz vote despite deadly unrest (AP)

June 15th, 2010

** CAPTION ADDITION, ADDS ID ** An Uzbek woman who identified herself only as Khadicha, and who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her husband was killed and house burned down stands in line in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - The United Nations and the European Union on Tuesday urged Kyrgyzstan not to allow deadly ethnic unrest to derail a key constitutional referendum and parliamentary elections.


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Belgians to vote after debate on splitting country (Reuters)

June 12th, 2010

Reuters - Belgians vote in a parliamentary election Sunday for a government that could move toward breaking up the country and that will need to curb the third-highest debt ratio…

Anniversary of disputed Iran vote passes quietly (AP)

June 12th, 2010

FILE - In this June 9, 2009 file photo, a supporter of main challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi shouts from the crowd amidst a festive atmosphere at an election rally at the Heidarnia stadium in Tehran, Iran. Friday June 12, 2010 marks the first anniversary of the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - The one-year anniversary of Iran’s disputed election passed quietly Saturday with little more than a subdued Internet appeal by opposition leaders for supporters to speak out on the…

Liberals draw one seat ahead of Labour in Dutch vote (AFP)

June 9th, 2010

A woman casts her ballot for the parlimentary Dutch elections in Staphorston on July 9, 2010. The Liberals were one seat ahead of Labour with 88 percent of the vote counted early Thursday after cliff-hanger general elections in the Netherlands, with the far-right Party for Freedom in third place.(AFP/Anoek de Groot)AFP - The Liberals were one seat ahead of Labour with 88 percent of the vote counted early Thursday after cliff-hanger general elections in the Netherlands, with the far-right Party…

Iran sanctions vote Wed, Gates predicts passage (AP)

June 8th, 2010

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, meets with British Foreign Minister William Hague, Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at the Foreign Ministry in London. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - The United States and its allies called for a U.N. vote Wednesday on imposing new sanctions on Iran’s suspect nuclear program, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates…