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Thaksin party wins landslide Thai election victory (AP)

July 4th, 2011 | Author: admin

Yingluck Shinawatra, opposition Pheu Thai Party's candidate for prime minister shakes hands with supporters as she celebrates after winning the election at the party headquarters in Bangkok on Sunday, July 3, 2011. The sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck led Thailand's main opposition party to a landslide victory in elections Sunday, heralding an extraordinary political turnaround five tumultuous years after her fugitive billionaire brother was toppled in an army coup, and paving the way Yingluck Shinawatra, who has never held office, to become this Southeast Asian kingdom's first female prime minister. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP – The woman poised to become Thailand’s first female prime minister acknowledged huge challenges in reconciling her divided country, after an election landslide seen as a rebuke of the military-backed establishment that ousted her brother in a 2006 coup.


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Obama visits Puerto Rico with eye on 2012 election (AP)

June 14th, 2011 | Author: admin

President Barack Obama smiles as he speaks to a group of supporters at a Miami fundraiser, Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)AP – President Barack Obama is making a rare presidential visit to Puerto Rico, the U.S. island territory, with a firm eye on Puerto Ricans back on the mainland who could help him win at least one key state during his re-election campaign next year.


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Turkey’s ruling party wins election (AP)

June 12th, 2011 | Author: admin

Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan react outside the AK party offices in Istanbul, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Turkey's ruling party sought a third term in elections Sunday, aiming to build on economic and diplomatic advances in recent years as well as introduce a new constitution it says will make the country more democratic. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP – Turkey’s ruling party surged to a third term in parliamentary elections Sunday, setting the stage for the rising regional power to pursue trademark economic growth, assertive diplomacy and an overhaul of the military-era constitution.


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Turkey’s government poised for election victory (AP)

June 12th, 2011 | Author: admin

Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan react outside the AK party offices in Istanbul, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Turkey's ruling party sought a third term in elections Sunday, aiming to build on economic and diplomatic advances in recent years as well as introduce a new constitution it says will make the country more democratic. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP – Turkey’s ruling party led by a wide margin in nearly complete returns from parliamentary elections on Sunday, state-run television reported, setting the stage for a third term in which the government is expected to seek an overhaul of the military-era constitution.


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Leftist Humala declares victory in Peru election (AP)

June 5th, 2011 | Author: admin

AP – Leftist military man Ollanta Humala has declared victory in Peru’s tightly contests presidential runoff, with unofficial results pointing to him scoring a narrow win.

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Democrat wins special election for NY House seat (AP)

May 25th, 2011 | Author: admin

Democratic candidate for the 26th District Congressional seat, Kathy Hochul arrives at a campaign stop at a restaurant in Amherst, N.Y., Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Hochul is running against Republican Jane Corwin and tea party candidate Jack Davis in the race to succeed Republican Chris Lee. Lee resigned in February after shirtless photos surfaced that he'd sent to a woman on Craigslist. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP – Democrats picked off a heavily Republican upstate New York congressional seat Tuesday in a special election that became a referendum on Medicare and may have blunted further GOP efforts to cut popular entitlement programs as a way to close the federal deficit.


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Group: At least 500 dead in Nigeria election riots (AP)

April 24th, 2011 | Author: admin

FILE In this Saturday, April 16, 2011 file photo, members of Nigeria's National Youth Service Corps, working as electoral officials, check a voter's name at a polling place in Daura, Nigeria. Officials tasked the four young college graduates with monitoring election stations during Nigeria's presidential vote. Then when the poll results unleashed sectarian violence, an angry mob killed them by locking them inside their youth hostel and setting it ablaze. Dozens of their colleagues in a nearby state narrowly escaped death after rioters torched their hostel too, leaving many with serious burns and few options to go home. Nigeria's National Youth Service Corps is a mandatory yearlong assignment for all Nigerians who graduate from university before the age of 30. Most serve as teachers during their stint, but the April 2011 national elections have brought extra responsibilities and danger to their work. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)AP – At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria’s presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week.


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