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Finland's former finance minister leading presidential election in early results
CNN
By Per Nyberg, CNN (CNN) -- Former Finnish Finance Minister Sauli Niinisto was leading the polls in presidential election results Sunday. According to Finland's Ministry of Justice, 99.1% of the votes have been counted. Niinisto was ahead of the ...
Finland set to elect new presidentLocal 10
Finnish Contest No More Between Right and LeftInter Press Service

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Moscow support for Assad well-calculated
The Associated Press
With Russia's presidential election just a month away, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seeking to return to the Kremlin, appears eager to stand up to the United States by protecting a longtime ally. Putin already has given his campaign a distinct ...

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Gazans furstrated over lack of economic progress
Al-Bawaba
The recent speculations of postponing the May elections have only added to this infuriation. The growing sense of exasperation was expressed in a recent article by Palestinian journalist Tahsin Yahya Abu Assi titled, "The Lie of the Reconciliation at ...

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5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
Enough Project (blog)
Sudanese blogger Amir Ahmad Nasr makes a compelling call for a refocus on the late southern Sudanese leader John Garang's concept of a 'New Sudan.' With political dissent on the rise in Sudan, there's a “real chance for change,” Nasr writes for Al ...

World Briefs: Putin aide says street protests provoked by US
Denver Post
UN aide killed at meeting over South Sudan massacre •GENEVA — A UN staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle-raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, UN officials ...

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Cracking the AU code
Ahram Online
In the 2009 local elections, the president's son ran for mayor of the Senegalese capital Dakar and lost -- sending a powerful message about the vibrancy of Senegalese democracy. The Senegalese, like other Africans, are more interested in politics over ...

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January : A month of fires and raving revolution
Vanguard
INEC which was stopped by a court ruling to conduct governorship elections in the five states in the April general elections on the account that the governors won their re-run and took a fresh oath of office at a later date which meant that they had a ...

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UPI NewsTrack TopNews
UPI.com
In a statement released Friday by his campaign, Walker -- a Republican who faces a possible recall election -- repeated that he has done nothing wrong, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Milwaukee County prosecutors have been conducting a John ...

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BBC News
Week in pictures: 28 January-3 February
BBC News
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi draws crowds during her election campaign trail. The National League for Democracy (NLD) is contesting all the available constituencies in the coming by-elections. India's Dhoni loses control of his bat ...

The Next Fight in Egypt and Tunisia Will Be Among Islamists
AllAfrica.com
Yet Islamist movements were more successful than any other parties in the recent parliamentary elections in Egypt and Tunisia, prompting some observers to accuse them of "stealing the revolutions". The protests that drove political changes in 2011 ...

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The State
The Daily Edit: 2.3.2012
The State
(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) AP Media personnel beat up a spectator who was allegedly stealing at an election rally addressed by Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi in Meerut, India, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. India's biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, ...

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Finnish Contest No More Between Right and Left
Inter Press Service
HELSINKI, Feb 3, 2012 (IPS) - In an uncharacteristically lively election campaign in this nation of five million people, Finns head for the polls in a second round of voting Sunday to elect a new president. None of the eight presidential candidates ...

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SA and the AU: It's complicated
Mail & Guardian Online
When the African Union's (AU's) election rules forced South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to end her bid to become chairperson of the AU in Addis Ababa this week, local media claimed it was because South Africa's Africa policy was weak and ...

COLUMN: Sudan and Congo savaged as world shrugs
Delmarva Now
Policymakers pin their hopes on the separation of South Sudan from the main part of the country in 2011 and recent elections in Congo as signs of progress. But this is pure hopefulness, not policy. The two Sudans are in active dispute over several ...

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UNPO
Somaliland: Journalist Urges UK Party to Promote Recognition
UNPO
In a tightly contested election for the presidency, the incumbent but losing candidate handed over power without conflict or bloodshed. International observers testified to the fairness of the election process. One of these observers was Gillian Gloyer ...

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Capital FM Kenya
Raila embarks on countrywide ODM campaigns
Capital FM Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 2 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga is scheduled to embark on a countrywide campaign as he seeks to marshal support to be the Orange Democratic Movement Party flag bearer ahead of the general elections. Odinga's entry into the campaign ...

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This man... Luis Moreno Ocampo
The Star
Undergoing the tragedy of aprosecution subterfuge since he became the ICC Chief Prosecutor in2003, Moreno-Ocampo got a lifeline last week when the ICC judgesindicted four of the six Kenyan post-election violence suspects.Vilified and praised in equal ...

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Another Week - 3 February 2012
FM.co.za
Abiola is widely believed to have won the 1993 election, annulled by Abacha. South Sudan signs a deal with Kenya to build an oil pipeline linking its oil fields to the Kenyan port of Lamu, which could reduce its dependence on Sudan.

Lib Dems should promote Somaliland's case for international recognition
SomalilandPress
In a tightly contested election for the presidency, the incumbent but losing candidate handed over power without conflict or bloodshed. International observers testified to the fairness of the election process. One of these observers was Gillian Gloyer ...

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Holden job cuts hit manufacturing
The Australian
Queensland election - Sean Parnell reports: After both leaders rushed to Charleville yesterday to inspect what turned out to be minor flooding, Premier Anna Bligh and the LNP's Campbell Newman have similar plans again today, attending a Cyclone Yasi ...

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