Mauritanians vote in poll to restore civilian rule
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Mauritanians began voting on Sunday to choose a president and restore civilian rule to the Saharan Islamic state after 19 months under a military junta.
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Palestinians voted Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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ROSSO, Senegal  - The first of thousands of black Mauritanian refugees returned home from exile in Senegal on Tuesday, nearly two decades after they fled bloody ethnic purges in their Arab-dominated Saharan nation.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in  nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential  ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat's successor.
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Voters on Sunday cast ballots on a referendum that would repeal a Western-brokered law that effectively grants local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanians.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in  their first municipal elections under Israeli occupation on  Thursday in a test of grassroots support for President Mahmoud  Abbas and rival Islamist groups.
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Palestinians started voting across the West Bank in the first municipal elections in 28 years which will serve as a test for next monthâs presidential polls.
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Somalia's parliament votes for a new president  in a bid to restore government to their lawless nation.
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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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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.
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In a dress rehearsal of next monthâs presidential election, Palestinians have voted in the first council elections for 28 years.
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Bosnians are voting in local elections - the first held by the Bosnian authorities since the end of the war in 1995.
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French overseas territories voted early on Saturday in the final round of parliamentary elections expected to give conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy a big majority for his reform plans.
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With most votes in Mauritania's presidential poll counted the two favourites seem certain to face a run-off.
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After decades of dictatorship and war, this massive nation in the heart of Africa chooses a new leader Sunday in its first multiparty presidential elections since winning independence nearly half a century ago.