Croatia holds presidential poll
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Polls open in Croatia's presidential election, after a campaign dominated by the prospect of joining the European Union.
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Polls opened on Sunday in Serbia's key presidential elections seen as crucial for the future of this Balkan state vis-a-vis the EU and as its breakaway province of Kosovo plans to declare independence.
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Yemenis voted on Wednesday in elections   that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to   win despite a challenge from a former minister.
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Croatia's pro-Western President Stjepan  Mesic narrowly failed to win re-election on Sunday, paving the  way for a second round run-off against the candidate of the  ruling conservative government.
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The people of Croatia vote for a  new president in a second and final round of voting.
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Croatian President Stipe Mesic won a crushing victory over his ruling conservative party rival in Sunday's election runoff, securing a second five-year term and promising to lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union.
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a presidential election pitting a pro-Western liberal against a nationalist in a vote seen as a plebiscite on Belgrade's place in the world as it prepares for the loss of Kosovo.
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Bosnians voted Saturday in local  elections in which the main Muslim, Serb and Croat nationalist  parties are expected to confirm their dominance nine years  after the end of the 1992-5 war.
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KIEV, December 26 (Itar-Tass) - Around 33,300 polling stations opened all over Ukraine on Sunday at 08.00 to elect a new president of the country.
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Serbs voted on Sunday in a close presidential election that could decide future ties with the West after the expected loss of its breakaway Kosovo province.
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Croatians returned to the polls Sunday for presidential runoff between the man who led the former Yugoslav republic out of international isolation and a conservative Cabinet minister favored by nationalists.
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The candidate who finished third in Croatia's weekend presidential election said Tuesday he was appealing to the Constitutional Court, insisting that the results were rigged and that he should have had a place ...
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Croatian President Stipe Mesic wins a second five-year term in office, after an easy election victory.
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a  presidential election pitting a pro-Western liberal against a  nationalist in a vote seen as a plebiscite on Belgrade's place  in the world as it prepares for the loss of Kosovo.
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ZAGREB, Oct 18  Croatia will hold regular presidential elections on December 21 to choose the head of state likely to oversee the former Yugoslav republic's entry into the European Union in 2009.
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Sports: 9 October 2004, Saturday. Football fans from Bulgaria and Croatia have come to grips in downtown Zagreb, media reported.
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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader won parliament's backing on Saturday for his proposed centre-right coalition cabinet, which faces the uphill task of speeding up Zagreb's European Union membership talks.