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Guinea-Bissau Victim of Another Coup

Guinea-Bissau ruling party presidential candidate Gomes Junior holds up his inked finger after voting in the capital Bissau.
The military has taken over the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, in a coup d'etat on Thursday, a few weeks before the country's presidential elections.
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NRA Aims At Microstamping Bill With NY Campaign Contributions

Over the last nine years, the National Rifle Association has doled out more campaign cash into New York than to any other state in the country. The NRA has reportedly given New York legislators and political committees $217,400 since 2003, with the primary goal of defeating Mayor Michael Bloomberg's push for the microstamping of bullet casings.
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Greek Crunch Election Date 'Set' For May 6

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'Fake' Or 'Deadly': Venezuela's Fate Hangs On Chavez's Cancer

Venezuelan politics has almost willingly let President Hugo Chavez's terminal illness hijack the ongoing presidential election campaign, which would have otherwise been its best chance to reassess his 13-year-long governance and revolutionary brand of socialism.
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Malaysian Government Introduces Historic Bill That Ends Indefinite Detentions Without Trial

Malaysian government took a significant move towards reinforcing the human rights and political reforms in the country, by introducing a legislation that would end indefinite detainments without trial.The Security Offenses (Special Measures) Bill will repeal and replace the Internal Security Act of 1960, which gave the government power to arrest anyone suspected as national security threat and detain him without trial for an indefinite period.
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Egypt Presidential Elections: 5 Leading Candidates

The candidates for Egypt's first free presidential elections in decades are set, the deadline having expired at 2 p.m. Cairo time on Sunday, and the final list is a microcosm of the current political and social divisions in post-revolution Egypt.
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Mali's Coup Leader Agrees To Hand Over Power To Civilian Government

Captain Amadou Sanogo, who led the coup in Mali and a junior officer in the military, has agreed to handover power to a civilian government, state local television reports. The move came after intense pressure from the international community, which outrightly denounced the coup in March. They also rejected the declaration of independence announced by the Tuareg rebel leaders.

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