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Japan votes in election seen as test for Democrats (AP)

Campaign workers call voters to drum up support for candidates in Sunday's Upper House election, at a Liberal Democrat Party campaign office in Tokyo Saturday, July 10, 2010. The main opposition Liberal Democrats are challenging Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Democratic Party of Japan in Sunday's parliamentary elections that are widely considered a referendum on the ruling party's 10 months in power. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP – Japanese voters cast ballots in a parliamentary election Sunday that is viewed as a test of confidence in the ruling Democrats’ 10 months in power.


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Democrats face test on eve of Japanese election (AP)

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan waves during an election campaign for his Democratic Party of Japan's candidate in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, July 10, 2010. The July 11 parliamentary elections are widely considered as a referendum on the Democrats' 10 months in power since defeating the long-ruling conservatives. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP – His popularity dented, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan toned down his tax hike talk on the eve of parliamentary elections Sunday that are widely considered a referendum on the Democrats’ 10 months in power.


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Runoff looms in Polish presidential election (AP)

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of Poland's Law and Justice Party speaks at his party election headquarters for  his supporters after acknowledging exit polls for the early Presidential elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010.   (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP – A somber election season in Poland was prolonged by two weeks Sunday when a first round of voting produced no immediate successor to Lech Kaczynski, the president killed more than two months ago in a plane crash.


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Primaries in 4 states, 1 House election (AP)

County employee Shericka Montgomery walks from the Crittenden County Court House in Marion, Ark., Monday, May 17, 2010. The building is one of the polling places in Arkansas' May 18 party primary elections. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP – President Barack Obama is not on the ballot in this week’s primaries, nor is Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican Senate leader.


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Four states hold primaries, one House election (AP)

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., speaks with Perry Miller, left, and his brother Jerry Miller during a campaign stop at the Crittenden County Court House in Marion, Ark., Monday, May 17, 2010. Lincoln is being challenged by two fellow Democrats in the May 18 primary election. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP – President Barack Obama is not on the ballot in this week’s primaries, nor is Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican Senate leader.


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UK’s top 2 parties locked in election standoff

Britain’s Conservatives and Labor parties vied for support of the nation’s smaller parties Friday after an election failed to produce an outright winner for the first time in almost 40 years.

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UK’s top 2 parties locked in election standoff (AP)

The leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, left, and his wife Sarah, right, are seen arriving to the count at  Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in the early hours of Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP – Britain’s two main parties were locked in a power struggle Friday after an inconclusive election — with Labour’s Gordon Brown suggesting he would try to form a coalition and Conservative leader David Cameron insisting the prime minister no longer had a mandate to govern.


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