ELECTIONS

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The re-election of Goodluck Jonathan as president of Nigeria has led to dozens of killings and thousands of people leaving their homes, according to the Red Cross.

The last Maharajah of Jaipur has died in the western Indian state of Rajasthan after a long illness.

The success of a far-right party in Finland’s general election may ultimately endanger the European Union’s (EU) financial bailout of Portugal.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered in Belgrade, Serbia, demanding early election, and expressing their unhappiness with low wages and official corruption..

An Egyptian supreme administrative court has dissolved the former ruling organization of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

Dozens of people have been injured in a major clash between hard-line Islamic protesters and government supporters in the town of Zarqa in Jordan on Friday.

The Bahraini government has delayed plans to ban two principal opposition political parties -- al-Wefaq and the Islamic Action Society --on the heels of criticism from the U.S. government.

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The French government has officially started enforcing a ban on the wearing of veils. The new law has enraged some Muslim groups who claim they are being “stigmatized,” while supporters of the ban say it is needed to better integrate foreign immigrants into the broader society.

Controversy has erupted in British political circles over a speech on immigration that Prime Minister David Cameron delivered today.

The assembly polls in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu will mark as one of the hotly contested and most unpredictable elections in decades.

Mitt Romney has started officially testing the waters for a presidential run in a state known for its independent voters and where he narrowly lost a presidential Republican primary four years ago.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) have detained three political activists who have demanded the implementation of democratic and economic reforms.

Thai 'red shirts' on Sunday recalled their deadly clashes with government security forces on April 10, 2010 even as the country looks forward to elections in May, five years after a military putsch ousted still influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Thailand clad in red shirts who are seeking the end of five years of military rule, gathered near Democracy Monument in Bangkok on Sunday on the first anniversary since violent clashes with Thai security forces.

The embattled president of Yemen who has faced several weeks of unrelenting protest demonstrations has reportedly agreed to a proposal by neighboring Gulf states to end the crisis in his poverty-stricken country.

U.S. officials knew about the Yemeni opposition deep discontent over their president at least two years ago, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

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Livejournal, the popular blogging site, is has been reporting distributed denial of service attacks over the last week, and some are blaming the Russian government.

A new pro-government Iranian blogging competition called The Face of '89, in reference to the Persian calendar year 1389, just ended on March 20.