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By By ISMAIL KHAN and SALMAN MASOOD, on May 17th, 2013 Officials called the explosions in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province the first major terrorist attack since the general election.
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Joseph Estrada was declared the winner of Manila’s mayoral election on Tuesday, his first ballot victory since his ouster in a 2001 anti-corruption revolt and a possible prelude to a return to higher office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THOMAS ERDBRINK, on May 12th, 2013 After Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registered for the June election, the country’s governing establishment responded with resentment.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When the dust settles from today’s violent and raucous midterm elections, President Benigno Aquino is expected to emerge politically stronger, thanks to unlikely alliances he’s forged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHOE SANG-HUN, on May 12th, 2013 Prosecutors said the journalist Choo Chin-woo “spread false information” about President Park Geun-hye’s brother through articles and a podcast in order to block her election.
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 11th, 2013 Twin bombings wounding dozens underlined the dangers voters faced in historic elections.
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bomb attack targeting an election candidate killed at least eleven people and wounded 36 others in Pakistan’s financial hub of Karachi as historic polls got under way on Saturday, a hospital doctor said. The bomb targeted a candidate seeking election to the Sindh provincial assembly for the Awami National Party (ANP), the main secular party for ethnic Pashtuns, police said. “We have received 11 dead bodies and 36 injured people. The condition of several of them is critical,” said doctor Semi Jamali, head of the emergency department at Jinnah Hospital in Karachi. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Shirin Tahir-Kheli, on May 10th, 2013 The U.S. needs a stable Pakistan, and the new leadership to emerge from this election will face huge challenges. Shirin Tahir-Kheli on the biggest issues facing the country right now.
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By By RICK GLADSTONE, on May 10th, 2013 The New York Times has protested an election-eve expulsion order for Declan Walsh, a veteran correspondent.
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Less than a week after Malaysia’s opposition led by the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim posted its best election performance yet, dissent has broken out within his People’s Justice Party (PKR), worrying his coalition partners. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 9th, 2013 ABC's Jonathan Karl with a video the RNC chose not to run in the 2012 elections. I'm pretty glad we didn't run it.
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By By STEPHEN CASTLE, on May 8th, 2013 The proposed changes announced Wednesday by the dominant Conservatives followed sharp gains in local elections last week by a populist party that wants to curb migration.
Continue reading Britain Urges Tougher Immigration Laws
By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistan cricket star turned politician Imran Khan sustained head injuries and was rushed to hospital Tuesday after falling off a lift taking him onto the stage for an election rally, his party said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak began a second term on Monday after the coalition which has ruled for 56 years held on to power in elections branded as fraudulent by a bitter opposition. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called for a rally in two days’ time to protest at a victory he said was achieved via the “worst electoral fraud in our history” and which saw the ruling camp win with a minority of the vote. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on May 6th, 2013 The most important article of the weekend was Byron York's astute analysis of election results to debunk the promise that immigration reform will save the Republican party.
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By By JOE COCHRANE, on May 6th, 2013 The coalition won a majority of seats in Parliament in national elections, but opposition parties claimed that the result was tainted by voting irregularities.
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By , on May 5th, 2013 
Foreign Secretary William Hague says the Conservative Party does not need a “drastic change of course” despite last week’s local election results.
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malaysia’s bitter political rivals launched a last-ditch campaign sprint on Saturday on the eve of the first elections in the country’s history in which the long-ruling regime faces possible defeat. Malaysian premier Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim barnstormed through their home regions where they will cast their own ballots early Sunday in elections marred by violence and allegations of government vote fraud. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on May 2nd, 2013 “The dominance of governors in our presidential politics is an old and durable phenomenon. Since the election of 1828, when Andrew Jackson’s landslide victory over John Quincy Adams ended our initial era of Founding Father Presidents, governors have won more major party nominations, more general elections, and more Electoral College votes than any other category of Presidential candidate – and vastly more than candidates whose main political experience was in the U.S. Congress.”
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By Justin Green, on May 1st, 2013 Presidential parties typically lose quite a few seats in the midterm elections of their second term, right?
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Ex-Philippine president elected mayor of Manila
<!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Joseph Estrada was declared the winner of Manila’s mayoral election on Tuesday, his first ballot victory since his ouster in a 2001 anti-corruption revolt and a possible prelude to a return to higher office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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