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Uribe torchbearer dominates Colombia vote (AP)

May 30th, 2010

Social National Unity Party presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos casts his ballot during  presidential elections in Bogota, May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - A conservative former defense minister who promises to build on Alvaro Uribe’s security gains easily defeated a maverick outsider in Colombia’s presidential election Sunday but fell short of…

Colombia vote: Uribe minister wins but runoff set (AP)

May 30th, 2010

AP - A former defense minister promising to build on President Alvaro Uribe’s security gains has convincingly won Colombia’s presidential elections but is headed for a runoff with a maverick…

Georgians hold 1st vote since 2008 war with Russia (AP)

May 30th, 2010

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili salutes during a military parade marking Independence Day in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.  Georgia is marking its independence day with a large military parade and a vow by its president that it won't give in to any empires. (AP Photo/Irakli Gedenidze, Presidential Press Service, Pool)AP - Voters in Georgia were choosing local leaders Sunday in the first ballot since President Mikhail Saakashvili led the country into a disastrous war with neighboring Russia nearly two…

Czech vote leaves unclear who will form next govt (AP)

May 29th, 2010

AP - The left-wing Social Democrats eked out a slim victory in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election Saturday but center-right parties won more votes overall, creating uncertainty over who will…

Iraq official: No vote change with Baghdad recount (AP)

May 16th, 2010

Coffins for killed football players arrive for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 15, 2010. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up at a sports field during a football game on Friday evening in the town of Tal Afar, located between the Syrian border and the volatile city of Mosul. (AP Photo/ Alaa al-Marjani)AP - A recount of votes cast in Baghdad did not change the results of Iraq’s March election, an electoral official said Sunday, preserving a narrow victory for the Sunni-backed…

Aquino opens up commanding lead in Philippine vote (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Presidential candidate Sen. Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III smiles as he holds his ballot in the country's first ever automated Presidential elections, Monday May 10, 2010 at Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac province in northern Philippines. Aquino III whose father was assassinated while opposing a dictatorship and whose late mother led the 'people power' revolt that restored freedoms commanded a large lead in the last pre-election polls. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - The son of two Philippine democracy icons widened his lead Tuesday in presidential elections after campaigning on a promise to begin prosecuting corrupt officials to restore credibility to…

Filipinos vote amid violence, computer glitches (AP)

May 10th, 2010

An elderly Filipino woman reviews her ballot at a voting center in San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines on Monday May 10, 2010. After a decade of corruption-tainted politics and untamed poverty, Filipinos stood in long lines Monday to elect a new leader, and surveys indicate they're pinning their hopes on the son of democracy icons who electrified masses with his family name and clean image.  (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Scattered violence and glitches with vote-counting machines being used for the first time failed to dissuade millions of Filipinos from voting in Monday’s elections, seeking a clean start…

German state vote curbs Merkel’s power (AP)

May 9th, 2010

AP - Voters in Germany’s most populous state dealt Chancellor Angela Merkel a painful setback Sunday, erasing her government’s majority in the upper house of parliament and curbing its power…

Britons vote in “photo finish” election (Reuters)

May 5th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (C) walks through a supermarket, with his wife Sarah (L) and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (top L,) during a campaign stop in Newcastle, norhtern England May 1, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew WinningReuters - Britons vote on Thursday in what is forecast to be the closest election since 1992, with the opposition Conservatives struggling to convert their opinion poll advantage into an…

Barring of candidates may change Iraq vote outcome (AP)

April 26th, 2010

Iraqi election officials count votes at a polling station in Karbala, March 2010. An Iraqi spokesman for a controversial investigative committee said that a judicial panel has invalidated the candidatures of 52 people who stood in Iraq's March 7 general election.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AP - An Iraqi court on Monday disqualified 52 candidates from the country’s parliamentary elections, including two who won seats, and threw out their votes in a decision that could…