Ex-general to face leftist in Guatemala runoff
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A former general who wants to use troops to fight crime stands a good chance of taking power in Guatemala after forcing a runoff with a leftist in a first round of voting for president.
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Niger's president is to face the main opposition leader in a run-off of presidential elections, officials say.
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A former militia leader accused of leading the massacre of some 200 Congolese villagers in 2003, will appear Monday before the International Criminal Court for the first time, the court's website said.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - A leftist reformer vowing to sweep away Ecuador's political old guard and a banana tycoon offering jobs for the poor battled on Sunday in a tight vote to elect the country's eighth president in a decade.
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Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday was headed for a runoff between a right-wing former general and a center-left candidate after neither garnered enough votes to win outright, an exit poll showed.
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The race to replace the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood on Capitol Hill appears headed to a runoff.
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A Guatemalan ex-dictator and seven other former officials avoided extradition to Spain to face charges for genocide committed in the country's 36-year civil war, according to a court ruling made public on Monday.
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A Mexican court ordered former president Luis Echeverria to face trial for his part in a 1968 massacre of leftist students just days before the Olympic Games in the capital, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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One of the bloodiest chapters in Colombia&#039;s recent history is being revisited in a Bogota courtroom: A former justice minister is on trial for allegedly masterminding the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
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Guatemala is set for a second round in the presidential poll as no candidate won a majority on Sunday.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - A leftist reformer vowing to sweep away Ecuador's political old guard and a banana tycoon offering jobs squared off on Sunday in a tight vote to choose the country's eighth president in a decade.
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Former Sao Paulo Gov. Geraldo Alckmin forced a presidential runoff election by capitalizing on Brazilians' anger over scandals that reached ever-closer to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Center-left candidate Alvaro Colom and right-wing retired general Otto Perez Molina were set for a tight finish in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, a new public opinion poll showed.
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Montevideo, Uruguay -- Tabare Vazquez, a Socialist doctor running as the candidate of an opposition coalition that includes former guerrillas, narrowly triumphed Sunday in the presidential election, bringing the left to power for the first time in this
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Two Republicans will likely go head-to-head in a runoff after Wednesday's election to replace the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood.
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Voters chose a governor Sunday for Mexico's poorest state &#151; the latest political battleground for the leftist party that is disputing the results of last month's presidential election.
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MEXICO CITY -- Nine months after he disappeared under a cloud of corruption allegations at home, former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is living and working in the same Mexican city he fled two decades ago to avoid arrest on murder charges, the Associated Press has learned.