Saudis vote in historic election
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Riyadh kicks off Saudi Arabia's first nationwide municipal elections, but women are banned from the polls.
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Riyadh kicks off Saudi Arabia's first nationwide municipal elections, but women are banned.
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The people of Najaf, the symbolic heart of Shiite Islam, came out in force to vote in Sunday's election.
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Only days before Saudi Arabia's first elections in more than 40 years, the kingdom is engaged in a wide-ranging civics seminar on what it means to vote in a country named for the family that rules it.
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AMMAN, Jordan  - Thousands of Iraqis voted abroad  Sunday as their compatriots at home braved bombs and threats to  go the polls in the first multi-party election in 50 years.
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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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WASHINGTON - Americans cast their ballots Tuesday in the first presidential election since the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, with Republican incumbent President George W Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Candidates backed by Islamic clerics won races in the Saudi capital in the kingdom's first regular balloting, an election observer said yesterday. But it was too early to say whether this represented a trend in the landmark municipal elections, which will be spread across three months.
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The people of Hong Kong voted today in elections that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than any time since China reclaimed the territory in July 1997 - following a campaign marred by scandal and alleged intimidation.
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Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a  historic election on Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 35  people in a bloody assault on the poll.
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Jakarta, Indonesia -- Voting began today in historic elections in Indonesia with opinion polls showing a former general who has pledged to end rampant graft, fix the economy and fight terrorism set for a comfortable win over President Megawati Sukarnoputri
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Bahrainis began voting in the small Gulf state's national elections on Saturday, amid tension between the government and the Shi'ite Muslim opposition which boycotted polls in the pro-Western kingdom in 2002.
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People outside the United States could only watch, wait and vent as Americans voted Tuesday in an election that provoked an extraordinary degree of emotional involvement beyond U.S. borders.
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Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a historic election on Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 35 people in a bloody assault on the poll.
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Election officials in Afghanistan have collected ballots from a historic presidential vote, which started enthusiastically but ended in turmoil after most of the candidates announced a boycott.
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A top Saudi diplomat and member of the royal family predicted that women will be allowed to vote in future elections, giving women in the strictly segregated Islamic nation a political voice for the first time.
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Women in this conservative oil-rich emirate voted in parliamentary elections for the first time Thursday, a vote that also inspired surprisingly vocal calls for reform and criticism of the ruling family.