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N.Y.— Vermont Democrats are organizing to help their New York counterparts get out the vote in a special congressional election. Voters in northeastern New York's 23rd congressional district go to the polls Tuesday in a special off-year election that's...
Tags: Doug Hoffman, conservative parties, GOP, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, Republican Party, William Owens, Republican National Committee, Dan Hoffman, Conservative Party, New York district
Polls have opened in Japan's nationwide parliamentary election. Opinion polls have overwhelmingly predicted that the opposition Democratic Party of Japan will unseat the conservative and long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a landslide. Key issues...
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Paola Totaro, London bureau chief for the Sydney Morning Herald, is baffled as to why Gordon Brown gets such a bad press The first time I saw Gordon Brown, my glasses fogged up. It was April 2008, and we were at the Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Ilford, east...
Tags: David Cameron, Mr Cameron, conservative parties, Ivan Cameron
The Conservatives must offer a "positive vision of change" to help people through the "dark days" facing the country, David Cameron has said. In a new year message to party members, the Tory leader said all possible steps must be taken to limit the length...
Tags: David Cameron, New Labour, Gordon Brown, economic downturn, Britain, Tory, conservative parties, debt crisis
The Conservative Party was set on Saturday to wrap up its first national policy convention since the Tories took power from the Liberals in 2006. There were about 300 resolutions up for debate Friday at meetings that were closed to the media.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will kick off what's expected to be a low-key, feel-good Conservative party convention Thursday evening before departing for a international financial conference in Washington. Mr. Harper will make only a brief appearance...
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The coalition is led by the conservative Homeland Union, which won the most seats in the Baltic state's parliamentary election. The agreement stresses that Lithuania is facing an economic crisis and the four parties are prepared to help steer the country...
Tags: Lithuania, Homeland Union-Christian Democrat Party, parliamentary elections, right parties, conservative parties, coalition government
Lithuania (AP) Lithuania's election commission says a conservative party critical of Russia has won the Baltic country's parliamentary vote. The Homeland Union won both rounds of the election, including Sunday's runoff. The commission says that with...
Tags: Lithuania, conservative parties, Homeland Union, prime minister, Russia, general elections, financial crisis, elections commission, baltic country, member parliament