Iraq election campaign begins
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Political parties in Iraq begin their first official day of campaigning ahead of the 30 January elections.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard officially launched his government's campaign on Sunday for an Oct. 9 election with billion-dollar promises to woo voters and a defiant stand against terror.
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Australian politicians set off on a marathon campaign Monday for an election that will focus on the way forward for one of the world's strongest economies, the credibility of candidates and support for the Iraq war.
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Iraqi authorities set January 30 as the date for the nationâs first election since the collapse of Saddam Husseinâs dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country, despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a
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Logistical preparations are under way to allow at least a million exiled Iraqis to cast their votes in the country's first free elections next month, a senior organizer said on Thursday.
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Iraqi election workers Tuesday began collecting the vote tallies from around the country, putting the finishing touches on the first free election in Iraq in half a century.
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Iraq takes centre-stage in the US election campaign as John Kerry and George W Bush trade insults.
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A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fueled fears of sectarian strife when campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's first election since Saddam Hussein's fall.
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Some of the main candidates in Iraq's Jan. 30 elections:
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A bombing in a Shi'ite city and an  outspoken attack on Iran by an Iraqi minister fueled fears of  sectarian strife as campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's  first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard  officially launched his government's campaign on Sunday for an  Oct. 9 election with billion-dollar promises to woo voters and  a defiant stand against terror.
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Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely
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Iraq has set a date of 30 January 2005 for its first nationwide election since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The announcement came from the independent Iraqi electoral commission in Baghdad.
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Iraq chose January 30 for its first democratic election in decades today, but violence in Sunni Muslim areas underlined the challenge of holding polls on time.
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The war in Iraq is shaping the opening stages of the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, just as it did in the 2004 campaign.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the  United States began registering on Monday for elections at the  end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a  poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election campaign got underway yesterday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the