Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, will address both houses of parliament on Thursday with a speech that will cap a political season when he has made increasingly radical departures from the ideas articulated by Vladimir Putin, his authoritaria
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis that could have delayed the U.S. troop withdrawal. The decision appeared to r
The government could hold a referendum on electoral reform on the same day as the next general election, Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has said.He claimed the timing was still open for discussion despite Prime Minister Gordon Brown's pledge of a pl
MINSK - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he was ready to liberalize electoral laws, sending a new signal that the ex-Soviet nation was seeking better relations with the West. As ties with Belarus's ally Russia sour, Lukash
KABUL, Oct. 16 President Hamid Karzai's office on Friday sought to distance itself from the commission investigating allegations of electoral fraud in , a day after officials said the U.N.-elected body would announce that a runoff is needed.A spoke
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's Constitutional Court has unanimously rejected claims of electoral fraud filed by the losers of last month's presidential poll. Presiding Judge Mohammad Mahfud said Wednesday the nine justices found no massive violati
SULAYMANIYAH, It is election season in Iraq's Kurdish region, and the campaigning here was perhaps most remarkable for how ordinary it seemed. Barham Salih, a veteran politician and candidate for the region's prime minister, jostled through the cr
WASHINGTON, Jul 1 - As the Iranian people continue tocall for justice and transparency, democracy researcher NicholasBenequista points out that public outrage over a case of electoralfraud in Nigeria may spark critical reforms in that notoriously c
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