Veteran Yemen leader re-elected
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Yemen's long running President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is re-elected to another seven-year term, gaining 77% of the vote, state-run TV reports.
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A former separatist rebel is sworn in as the first directly elected governor of Indonesia's Aceh province.
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The Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates Wednesday elected Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed as president, succeeding his late father, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan.
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Yemen's security forces have arrested a   man they said was a senior al Qaeda militant who was also a   bodyguard for an opposition candidate standing in Wednesday's   elections, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - Retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president Wednesday after winning the country's first-ever direct election for head of state last month.
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Zambia's Electoral Commission said Monday that President Levy Mwanawasa was re-elected to a second term, collecting 43 percent of the votes cast in last week's balloting.
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NAIROBI, Oct. 10 -- Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament on Sunday elected Abdullahi Yusuf, a former army colonel, as interim president of the war-torn nation in the Horn of Africa, the parliament speaker said.
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OIL-RICH Brunei&#39;s absolute ruler Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has revived parliament for the first time in 20 years in a first step towards possible future elections, officials said today.
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The Croatian press shows little surprise that incumbent president Stjepan Mesic was re-elected for a second term on Sunday.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has won re-election for a second term, poll officials say.
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Yemenis began voting on Wednesday in   elections that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is   expected to win, despite facing a genuine challenge from a   former minister.
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SANAA, Yemen, Sept. 20 -- Former presidential candidate Sumayya Ali Rajja, her two children in tow, plodded from polling station to polling station Wednesday trying to take part in what she considered a historic moment: Yemen's first competitive presidential elections. But Rajja's frustration...
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Yemen's security forces have arrested a   man they said was a senior al Qaeda militant who was also a   bodyguard for an opposition candidate in Wednesday's election,   President Ali Abdullah Saleh said.
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Yemen's presidential elections, which   President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to win, and municipal   council elections were an overall success despite some   irregularities and few women candidates, a European observers'   group said on Thursday.
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SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was reelected with more than 77 percent of votes in the face of the strongest challenge since he came to power 28 years ago, officials said Saturday. Supporters of Faisal bin Shamlan, who had a substantial popular following, alleged fraud and...
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IBB, Yemen  - Dozens of people were killed and   injured in a stampede in a Yemeni stadium where President Ali   Abdullah Saleh was holding a pre-election rally in the southern   province of Ibb.
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Abdelrahman al-MarwaniÂs goal to bring peace to Yemen shows the difficulty of changing the countryÂs mind-set, one person at a time.