Egypt passes constitutional amendments
June 18th, 2012 - 12:43 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, June 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Egypt's ruling military council has passed a few amendments to the constitution that will outline the future president's powers and responsibilities, state television reported.The text ... Read more...
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Egypt polls: Muslim Brotherhood says it is winning
June 18th, 2012 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, June 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Mohammed Mursi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, is leading by a million votes in the Egyptian presidential runoff after 95 percent ... Read more...
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Muslim Brotherhood seeks dialogue to ’save revolution’
May 26th, 2012 - 8:55 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, May 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement has urged country's political forces to participate in a national dialogue ahead of a tough battle between an Islamist candidate and ... Read more...
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Hollande, the next French president (Lead)
May 7th, 2012 - 5:00 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, May 7 (IANS) Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande defeated incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's decisive presidential runoff in France and will now become president though he has never ... Read more...
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Sarkozy concedes defeat, wishes Hollande good luck
May 7th, 2012 - 4:11 am ICT by IANS
Paris, May 7 (IANS) French President Nicolas Sarkozy conceded defeat to his Socialist Party challenger Francois Hollande in the presidential runoff Sunday, saying he had called his rival on the ... Read more...
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Francois Hollande: The next president of France
May 7th, 2012 - 3:13 am ICT by IANS
Paris, May 7 (IANS) Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande who defeated incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's decisive presidential runoff in France, has never held a government post at the ... Read more...
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Obama hails ‘decisive turn of events’ in Cote d’Ivoire
April 12th, 2011 - 8:34 am ICT by IANS
Washington, April 12 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has welcomed the "decisive turn of events" in Cote d'Ivoire, as former president Laurent Gbagbo was detained Monday following a four-months ... Read more...
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Brazil’s first woman president-elect vows to push for equality
November 2nd, 2010 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
Brasilia, Nov 2 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff has promised to guarantee freedom of the press and religion and to promote "equality between men and women", since all those things are "essential ... Read more...
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Komorowski to be inaugurated as Polish president
August 6th, 2010 - 1:33 pm ICT by IANS
Warsaw, Aug 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Bronislaw Komorowski will be sworn in as new Polish president Friday at a joint session of the two chambers of parliament.
Komorowski, a 58-year-old pro-European Union (EU) moderate ... Read more...
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Conservative candidate wins Colombia presidential poll
June 21st, 2010 - 6:05 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, June 21 (DPA) Conservative candidate Juan Manuel Santos won Colombia's presidential runoff by a landslide Sunday.
With nearly 60 percent of the vote counted, he had 69 percent of the vote, against ... Read more...
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Ukrainians vote in presidential runoff
February 7th, 2010 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
Kiev, Feb 7 (RIA Novosti) Polls opened Sunday in Ukraine's presidential runoff, with Ukrainians having to choose between opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a bitterly fought election.
Yanukovych ... Read more...
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Old rivals to meet in presidential runoff in Ukraine
January 18th, 2010 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Kiev, Jan 18 (RIA Novosti) Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are heading for a runoff Feb 7 in Ukraine's presidential vote set to decide the future of ... Read more...
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Chilean airline to buy 30 jets for $2 bn
December 24th, 2009 - 12:31 pm ICT by IANS
Santiago, Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Chilean flagship airline LAN has signed a deal to purchase 30 Airbus A320 jets at a price of around $1.97 billion, the company said, adding that they will ... Read more...
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Uruguay president-elect will farm too
December 2nd, 2009 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
Montevideo, Dec 2 (EFE) Jose "Pepe" Mujica, winner of the presidential runoff in Uruguay, said he will alternate his duties as head of state with working the land on his small farm ... Read more...
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Karzai promises `national unity’ government in new term
November 3rd, 2009 - 5:14 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, Nov 3 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to assemble a government of "national unity", a day after the presidential runoff was cancelled and he was declared the winner.
His ... Read more...
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Abdullah pulls out of Afghan presidential runoff poll (Second lead)
November 1st, 2009 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, Nov 1 (DPA) Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah Sunday announced he would not participate in a planned runoff election, saying that political conditions could not guarantee a fair process.
The former foreign ... Read more...
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Abdullah boycotts Afghan presidential runoff poll
November 1st, 2009 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, Nov 1 (DPA) Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah Sunday announced he would boycott the Nov 7 runoff election, saying that political conditions could not guarantee a fair process. Read more...
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Afghan Taliban call for poll runoff boycott
October 24th, 2009 - 3:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, Oct 24 (DPA) Taliban militants threatened Saturday to disrupt the Nov 7 presidential runoff after attacks during the first round of balloting in August kept many voters away from polling ... Read more...
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US pressured Karzai to accept runoff pol
October 21st, 2009 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Oct 21 (IANS) Afghan President Hamid Karzai's decision to fight for his job in a Nov 7 runoff election came after US officials lobbied him through personal meetings ... Read more...
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Fewer EU election monitors for Afghan poll runoff
October 21st, 2009 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 21 (DPA) The European Union would find it difficult to send observers for the Afghan presidential runoff, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Wednesday.
In an interview on Swedish radio, Bildt, ... Read more...
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US expects Karzai to accept Afghan runoff: Report
October 20th, 2009 - 11:38 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 20 (DPA) US officials believe Afghan President Hamid Karzai would declare his acceptance Tuesday of a presidential runoff after an investigation of voting fraud invalidated part of the August ballots, ... Read more...
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U.S. fears rifts in Afghanistan if presidential vote heads for runoff
August 22nd, 2009 - 1:48 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, Aug.22 (ANI): Western officials here have expressed relief that many Afghans defied Taliban threats of reprisals and came out to vote, but they were clearly concerned on Friday that a ... Read more...
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Bush broadens sanctions on Zimbabwe
July 26th, 2008 - 3:52 am ICT by IANS
DPA
Washington, July 26 (DPA) US President George W. Bush Friday widened sanctions against Zimbabwean officials for using violence and intimidation to manipulate elections in the troubled country. The sanctions freeze the assets ... Read more...
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South African xenophobia under control: minister
May 27th, 2008 - 1:54 am ICT by admin
By Fakir Hassen
Johannesburg, May 27 (IANS) The xenophobic violence that has wracked South Africa for the past fortnight is now under control, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said here Monday evening ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe opposition to take part in presidential runoff
May 10th, 2008 - 4:59 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Pretoria, May 10 (DPA) Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday he would take part in a runoff presidential election against incumbent President Robert Mugabe. The MDC leader ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe’s opposition to brief UN Security Council
April 28th, 2008 - 4:02 am ICT by admin
DPA
Harare/Lusaka, April 28 (DPA) Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will take its claim of victory in last month's election over President Robert Mugabe to the UN Security Council this week, ... Read more...
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