Uruguay&#39;s Left Celebrates First Presidential Win
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Uruguay&#39;s left celebrated its first presidential victory into the wee hours Monday while partial election returns indicated Tabare Vazquez would win and his main challengers conceded on exit poll results.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili celebrated victory on Monday in a presidential election which his opponents branded as rigged but which won broad support in the West.
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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The election held in Uruguay yesterday will determine whether the country, slowly emerging from economic turmoil, will join the ranks of other South American nations headed by leftist presidents.
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Uruguay&#39;s leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez is headed for victory in presidential elections with an estimated 50.9 to 53 percent of the vote, exit polls and pollster projections showed.
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Argentines voted for a new president on Sunday with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner poised to succeed her husband and become the country's first elected woman leader.
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Uruguay have put their World Cup qualifying campaign back on course with a controversial 1-0 win over Ecuador while Chile and Colombia shared four red cards and no goals in a grim encounter.
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Last week, for the first time since Ehud Barak defeated Benjamin Netanyahu in the contest for prime minister, the left wing was radiant with joy.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- The opposition candidate won the most votes today in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election but fell short of a first-round victory, according to an exit poll conducted by a consortium of non-governmental and polling groups.
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Uruguay strengthened South America&#39;s political tilt to the left, electing the country&#39;s first leftist president as part of a regional shift by voters disenchanted by US
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President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday praised his opponents for accepting defeat and said his overwhelming re-election victory shows Venezuela supports a radical turn toward socialism.
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Montevideo, Nov. 1 (NNN): The left-wing candidate in Uruguay&#39;s presidential election, Tabare Vazquez, has claimed victory after exit polls put him firmly in the lead.
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Argentina on course for first elected woman president after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declares victory.
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Mexico's largest left-wing party apparently won an important victory Sunday in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, according to initial results, in one of three gubernatorial elections that could preview next year's national presidential campaign.
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Initial results from Botswana&#39;s election were delayed on Sunday but President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party has won the first seat and is seen as safe to win the overall poll in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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This nation&#39;s first presidential election took a step toward legitimacy Sunday when Afghan and international officials celebrated the turnout of millions of
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Independence backers celebrated in the streets Sunday after an unofficial group monitoring a referendum predicted victory for Montenegro voters favoring secession from Serbia.