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Afghan President Hamid Karzai won last month's presidential election outright in the first round, election officials said on Wednesday, but the European Union said more than a third of his votes might be suspect because of fraud. Afghan election authorities...
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The legislation was brought in two years ago to try to lower the country's high rate of child abuse. The referendum asked: "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?" The referendum is non-binding, and Prime...
Tags: New Zealand, backs smack, law changing, preliminary results, NZPA, Green MP Sue Bradford, bring backs, smack law, referendum results, parental correction
Preliminary results show it is heading for its first-ever majority in the country's parliament. "I believe this will be our big victory," 66-year-old Johanna Sigurdardottir, leader of the Social Democratic Alliance, told cheering supporters. Voters have...
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The Peoria, Ill.-based company, known around the world for its black and yellow earth movers, reported a net loss of $112 million, or 19 cents a share, vs. a profit of $922 million, or $1.45 a share, a year earlier. The latest results included $558 million...
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Moldova's ruling Communist Party won the parliament elections on April 5 2009, securing just enough seats needed to elect its nominee as President of the country, preliminary results showed on April 6. The Communists won 50 per cent of the vote and were...
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Baghdad heavily guarded Green Zone. On Saturday, millions of Iraqis headed to cast their ballots in polling stations across 14 out of 18 of Iraqi provinces to choose their leaders in provincial councils.
Tags: Iraqi High Electoral Commission, Supreme Council of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Nouri al-Maliki, Al-Maliki, Nouri Maliki, Iran, Baghdad, prime minister, preliminary results
Faced with a prolonged drought in the market for initial public offerings (IPOs), Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI) said Tuesday that it will merge with a publicly traded biopharmaceutical start-up on the verge of collapse. CSI, based in New Brighton,...
Tags: CSI, Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Replidyne, preliminary results
The ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party--which also governed the country when it was a Soviet satellite--won 41 seats in Sunday's vote, said Battulga Bataa, chairman of the General Election Commission. That would give the party more than half...
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