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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan was holding historic elections on Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. Polls opened on Saturday morning across the nation in what is a closely watched race to determine the fate of this nuclear-armed country crucial to stability in the region. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Public opinion surveys are widely cited in city, but many doubt they give a fair picture in light of outdated methods and political polarisation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday dismissed his influential deputy prime minister Vladislav Surkov, who is credited with helping to shape the country’s tightly controlled political system. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Doctors said on Wednesday they expect Pakistani politician Imran Khan to make a full recovery despite fracturing his spine in a fall at a campaign rally just days before the general election. The retired cricket star and head of the Pakistan Movement for Justice (PTI) suffered several fractured vertebrae and a broken rib on Tuesday night when he fell from a lift raising him onto a platform at a campaign rally. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a fresh clampdown on immigration in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, seeking to bolster his right-wing credentials and counter the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Measures to restrict migrants’ access to healthcare and tackle illegal immigration form a central part of the speech, which sets out the British government’s legislative priorities for the year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bombs killed 17 people and wounded dozens more including an election candidate in Pakistan on Tuesday, raising to more than 100 the death toll from attacks on the campaign for Saturday’s polls. The attacks took place in the northwestern town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and in the northwestern district of Dir, where Pakistani troops crushed a Taliban-led insurgency in 2009. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain would enjoy a significant economic boost if it left the European Union, former finance minister Nigel Lawson said in an article on Tuesday which will fuel the debate about a referendum on British membership. Writing in the Times, Nigel Lawson insisted that “the case for exit” was now clear and urged Britain to sever its 40-year association with Brussels. “In my judgement the economic gains would substantially outweigh the costs,” wrote Lawson, who was Margaret Thatcher’s longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When the cracks in the building appeared early last Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s – a feared political operative who a neighbour says dropped out of school in seventh grade – quickly arrived at the scene in Savar, a crowded industrial suburb of Bangladesh’s capital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 45 others when he rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, police said. Violence has spiked in the nuclear-armed country ahead of national elections on May 11 with at least 56 people killed in attacks targeting politicians and political parties since April 11, according to an AFP tally. Monday’s suicide bombing targeted a senior official in the city administration, Sahibzada Anees, who passed by shortly before the blast in the Jehangir Abad neighbourhood. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang emphasised that she hoped to forge a consensus among businesses on the path to genuine universal suffrage, as their participation would be vital to achieving full democracy and improving governance. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Opposition leader Henrique Capriles charged there was a plot to change the result of Sunday’s presidential election in Venezuela, which will decide if a longtime loyalist continues Hugo Chavez’s self-styled socialist revolution. By mid-evening, both Capriles’ camp and that of acting President Nicolas Maduro expressed confidence that they had won, raising concerns that the results might be contested. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Canadian ex-porn actor will stand trial for premeditated murder in the grisly killing and dismemberment of a 33-year-old Chinese student, a judge ruled on Friday. Sufficient evidence was heard during a preliminary hearing to warrant prosecuting Luka Rocco Magnotta for the murder of Lin Jun in May, Court of Quebec Judge Lori Renee Weitzman said. A trial date will be set on April 29. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JIM DWYER, on April 10th, 2013 The two main political parties have a deal that allows each side to fix the maps so their incumbents are protected from any serious challenge.
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistan’s top court on Monday ordered former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf to appear before the judges to answer allegations that he committed treason while in power, an offence that carries the death sentence. The Supreme Court was responding to several private petitions alleging Musharraf committed treason by suspending the constitution and sacking senior judges, including the chief justice, while in office. The hearing is scheduled to be held on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thai lawmakers moved to change parts of a military-backed constitution after the country’s highest court agreed to hear a case that may block them from doing so, signalling a renewed round of political tension. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prominent hotelier Hari Harilela, who built his fortune by making critical investments during the 1960s riots, has urged Hongkongers to keep faith with their home as the city experiences tension and uncertainty about its future. Harilela, often dubbed the richest Indian in the city, has risen from being a child born to an impoverished family to one of the best-known investors in the region’s hotel industry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 30th, 2013 
King Abdullah of Jordan swears in the smallest government in four decades, as PM Abdullah Ensour sets to tackle the budget deficit.
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By , on March 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man armed with a gun and grenades attacked a school in southern Pakistan during a prize-distribution ceremony yesterday, killing its principal and wounding six children before fleeing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s taken fewer than 100 days for Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting to go from low-profile academic at the University of Hong Kong to leading figure in one of the most radical and ambitious campaigns in the city’s fight for democracy. “It is like a century ago,” Tai said of a conversation with the Post in early February, when he outlined his plan to rally tens of thousands of protesters to block the roads in Central – dubbed the Occupy Central movement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Leftist leader Pier Luigi Bersani got the formal go-ahead yesterday to try to form Italy’s next government even though his coalition failed to win an overall majority in parliament in elections last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Pakistanis head to polls in unpredictable election
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan was holding historic elections on Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. Polls opened on Saturday morning across the nation in what is a closely watched race to determine the fate of this nuclear-armed country crucial to stability in the region. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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