Tag: Vote
Romney roars ahead with second US vote victory
Mitt Romney heads to the US South Wednesday as the clear Republican frontrunner to take on President Barack Obama after a commanding win in...
Scotland clashes with London over independence vote
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond fuelled a tense constitutional clash with London on Wednesday, insisting that his government can organise its own independence referendum...
Egyptians vote in final phase of landmark polls
Egyptians were voting on Tuesday in the final round of a landmark post-revolution election that has propelled Islamist movements into the centre stage of...
Putin rejects acting president role ahead of March vote
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday rejected the idea of becoming acting head of state ahead of March 4 presidential elections where he...
SC seeks reply on plea for right of vote to overseas...
A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench on Wednesday directed Attorney General Justice (r) Maulvi Anwarul Haq to seek instructions from the federation and submit...
Russia vote will stand despite protests, says Putin aide
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Monday the results of contested parliamentary polls will stand despite massive street protests and a probe by...
Nationwide vote protest hits Putin’s rule
Up to 50,000 people turned out in Moscow on Saturday for a protest against disputed polls that have sparked a rare national show of...
Egypt’s Islamists claim most seats in run-off vote
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday it won most seats in a first-round parliamentary vote, with early tallies suggesting liberals had backed some of...
Russia vote exposes chinks in Putin’s armour
The United Russia party of Vladimir Putin saw its popularity ratings crumble in elections in a number of Russian regions where it won barely...
PTI may pull the rug from under the feet of PPP,...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf might dent the vote-bank of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in rural Sindh and the Awami National Party (ANP)’s in Karachi.
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Egypt army sees vote turnout exceeding 70 percent
A member of Egypt’s ruling military council said on Tuesday that he expected turnout in the first stage of a parliamentary election to exceed...
UN, EU call for calm on eve of Congo vote
International organisations appealed for calm on the eve of a presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo already tainted by deadly street clashes and...
Egypt military rulers in crisis ahead of vote
Faced by angry street protests, Egypt’s military rulers are under fire from all political sides and are locked in their worst crisis since the...
The US roadblock
The hysteria on display in Washington over UNESCO's vote to include Palestine as a member of the world body, though largely a manufactured effort,...
Greek prime minister faces survival vote, bailout in balance
Greek parliamentarians prepared to give their verdict on Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday in a confidence vote which could decide the fate of...
France to abstain in vote on Palestinian UN seat
France would abstain in a vote on a Palestinian request for full membership of the United Nations, the French foreign ministry said on Friday....
Palestinians seek UNESCO vote despite US Opp
The Palestinians will seek a vote on their bid for full membership of UNESCO next week, Foreign Minister Riyal al-Malki said on Wednesday, despite...
