Congolese president may not avoid runoff
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President Joseph Kabila's lead Saturday in Congo's historic presidential election was below the majority needed to avoid a runoff, a day before the deadline for a preliminary tally of votes.
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DR Congo's Supreme Court dismisses a challenge to last month's run-off election by losing candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba.
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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - Exit polls show no clear victor in Romania&#39;s presidential election Sunday, making it likely that the two front-runners will compete in a runoff vote next month.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 1 -- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the first round of Brazil's presidential election Sunday, but fell short of earning enough votes to avoid a runoff later this month against the second-place challenger.
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KIGALI, Rwanda  - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said Saturday he has not ruled out sending troops to eastern Congo if Hutu rebels continue to threaten his country.
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Political analysts are uncertain if BrazilÂs president, made vulnerable by another corruption scandal, will obtain the majority he needs to avoid a runoff.
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AFRICA/CONGO RD - Kabila si insedia alla Presidenza. Quali  sfide lo attendono? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Joseph Kabila presta giuramento oggi, 6 dicembre, come primo Presidente democraticamente eletto della Repubblica Democratica del Congo (sulle elezioni congolesi vedi Fides 16 e 28 novembre 2006). \
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BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. 28 -- Exit polls showed no clear winner in the election Sunday to replace President Ion Iliescu, raising the likelihood of a runoff next month between a former ship&#39;s captain with a populist message and a political veteran.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he will not seek a third consecutive term as Brazil's leader, but will try to influence the choice of his successor who might come from outside his ruling party.
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Fighting in eastern DR Congo may impede elections planned for June, a United Nations report warns.
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila's  guards fought gun battles with forces loyal to election  challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba in the capital Kinshasa on Sunday,  after poll results showed the two would have to enter a  run-off.
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KINSHASA, Aug 19  - Congo must stick to the terms of its fragile peace agreement, one of the country&#39;s vice presidents said on Thursday, as a dissident army officer said the process was failing and threatened to resume fighting.
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Congo&#39;s decision to send thousands of soldiers into its volatile North Kivu province is a high-risk tactic that could exacerbate a simmering regional conflict, analysts say.
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President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine said on Sunday that if he were Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the man Kuchma had selected to be his successor, he would not run in a new presidential runoff ordered by the ...
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Congolese authorities on Monday blocked an ex-rebel chief from entering the capital to take up duties as a deputy minister under a peace deal, but promised they were still adhering to the &quot;principle&quot; of his inclusion in the government.
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Ukraine's president said that if he were Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich, he would not participate in a new runoff.
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Second place might be good enough for the former rebel trailing President Joseph Kabila in Congo's historic election &#151; at least this time around.