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Opinion polls indicate that Tsvangirai and Mugabe are in a dead heat.

The justices said the Arizona provision conflicts with the national motor voter law.

Iranians headed to the polls on Friday to vote, with turnout estimated to be large but with no front-runner indicated.

Pakistan has completed its first peaceful civilian government transition. Now what's next?

The leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz political party has claimed victory in the elections Saturday.

Social scientists are surprised to find more Chinese with socialist or communist leanings -- more "patriotic" and "conservative" -- since the late 1980s. But it's a locally flavored conservatism.

While the advance of democracy is stalling, public support for democracy is also falling across the developing world.

The more than 2,500 "phantom requests" for absentee ballots may have been intended to sway the 2012 primary election.

At least, four persons were killed and more than 30 people including a judge were injured in a Peshawar suicide bomb attack.

Raila Odinga's party is claiming fraud in Kenya election -- just like they did five years ago before the country erupted into violence.

After 14 years under Hugo Chavez, oil-dependent Venezuela must decide: More of the same or a new way?

The Holy See reportedly would like to see a new pontiff elected in time for Holy Week, which begins on Palm Sunday, March 24.

This year marked the fifth consecutive election that Communists have triumphed in tiny Tripura.

The now 61-year-old Hungarian-born Anna Ilona Staller is alive and well, thank you.

In late February, the United States Supreme Court will review Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

Only eight years ago, in 2005, Kuwaiti women gained the right to vote in parliamentary and local elections.

Thanks to an election, refugees from the Syrian civil war get a taste of living in a free country. But their woes are far from over.

The British prime minister said he would hold a referendum on leaving the EU if his party wins in 2015.

There has been no direct official response yet to the arrest order from either Ashraf or Zardari.

Venezuela and Cuba's longtime political and economic alliance could change if Chavez prematurely leaves office.

The Venezuelan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the legislature’s decision to postpone the Jan. 10 inauguration of President Hugo Chavez amid ongoing secrecy about the true state of his health.