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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1304 Elections - International en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:45:23 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1304 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_hostages_killed ap/20091126/as_philippines_hostages_killed AP world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:45:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_hostages_killed"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.53bb00a411c541b7be657633a3b4c71c.philippines_hostages_killed_xaf116.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=VBxB3t9B6ZPjId4zVLS.jg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A man digs beside a backhoe as they recover a vehicle that was dumped together with massacre victims along a hillside grave in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)" border="0" /></a>AP - A scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines turned himself in Wednesday amid mounting pressure on the government to crack down on lawlessness and warlords.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_hostages_killed"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091125/capt.53bb00a411c541b7be657633a3b4c71c.philippines_hostages_killed_xaf116.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=VBxB3t9B6ZPjId4zVLS.jg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man digs beside a backhoe as they recover a vehicle that was dumped together with massacre victims along a hillside grave in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/wl_nm/us_philippines_abduction nm/20091126/us_philippines_abduction Reuters world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/wl_nm/us_philippines_abduction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2859037124.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wR4KuL4cxZmLw3LW6b0ETg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A backhoe lifts the wreckage of a local television network's vehicle that was unearthed from a shallow grave at the site of a massacre of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Erik de Castro" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A member of a powerful political family in the southern Philippines, suspected to be behind the massacre of 57 people in an election-related feud, surrendered to police Thursday, an army official said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/wl_nm/us_philippines_abduction"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2859037124.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wR4KuL4cxZmLw3LW6b0ETg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="A backhoe lifts the wreckage of a local television network's vehicle that was unearthed from a shallow grave at the site of a massacre of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines, November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Erik de Castro" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_obit_reblando ap/20091126/as_philippines_obit_reblando AP world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:39:41 GMT AP - Alejandro "Bong" Reblando, a veteran Filipino journalist and former Associated Press stringer, was among at least 18 reporters killed in an attack on an election caravan, authorities said. He was 53. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/wl_nm/us_haiti_election_aristide nm/20091126/us_haiti_election_aristide Reuters world Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:55:57 GMT Reuters - The political party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for February 28, Haitian elections officials said on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup ap/20091125/lt_honduras_coup AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:12:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091124/capt.d7bfcbf30e4e4bb39ab555516e1fe4a6.honduras_elections_xaf102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=V8FzWXlARPfbWb4RtdmjMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An electoral worker carries boxes of ballots for upcoming general elections from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal warehouse to be sent to voting centers nationwide in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Honduras' general elections are schedule for Nov. 29, days before Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to instate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' establishment.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091124/capt.d7bfcbf30e4e4bb39ab555516e1fe4a6.honduras_elections_xaf102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=V8FzWXlARPfbWb4RtdmjMw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="An electoral worker carries boxes of ballots for upcoming general elections from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal warehouse to be sent to voting centers nationwide in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Honduras' general elections are schedule for Nov. 29, days before Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to instate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_palestinians_abbas_vote nm/20091125/us_palestinians_abbas_vote Reuters world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:34:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_palestinians_abbas_vote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r3376511076.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=YqoI5Z8aLwwkM6lCEm5PSw--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="Palestininan President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during his meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Salvador November 20, 2009. Abbas is on a three-day official visit in Brazil. REUTERS/Thiago Teixeira" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he plans to stay on in his post until the next election is held and that he would be ready to hold the vote as soon as consensus was reached with Islamist group Hamas.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_palestinians_abbas_vote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r3376511076.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=YqoI5Z8aLwwkM6lCEm5PSw--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="photo" title="Palestininan President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during his meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Salvador November 20, 2009. Abbas is on a three-day official visit in Brazil. REUTERS/Thiago Teixeira" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_iraq_election nm/20091125/us_iraq_election Reuters world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:26:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_iraq_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2132672090.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=v_p8MpKXdGbyj4QE9RpTKA--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi attends the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Khaled El Fiqi/Pool" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. and U.N. officials have proposed solutions to Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president to stop him vetoing for a second time a law needed for an election to take place next year, an official said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_iraq_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2132672090.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=v_p8MpKXdGbyj4QE9RpTKA--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="photo" title="Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi attends the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Khaled El Fiqi/Pool" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq ap/20091124/ml_iraq AP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:37:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.e0143e456222431e83996be16a5d25bc.iraq_elections_bag104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=sxJyaN.vmS5PTJDAkzFtXA--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Sunni lawmaker Osama al-Nujeifi speaks to the press after an Iraqi Parliament session about the election law on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Iraq's parliament has amended an election law that was vetoed by a Sunni Arab vice president, but Sunnis say the changes do not address their concerns.The dispute highlights ethnic and sectarian divisions in Iraq, and could force a delay in national polling scheduled for January. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)" border="0" /></a>AP - A senior official said Tuesday that Iraq must delay a national vote scheduled for January because of a political dispute, and the vice president who triggered the crisis indicated he would veto a key election law for a second time.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.e0143e456222431e83996be16a5d25bc.iraq_elections_bag104.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=sxJyaN.vmS5PTJDAkzFtXA--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Sunni lawmaker Osama al-Nujeifi speaks to the press after an Iraqi Parliament session about the election law on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Iraq's parliament has amended an election law that was vetoed by a Sunni Arab vice president, but Sunnis say the changes do not address their concerns.The dispute highlights ethnic and sectarian divisions in Iraq, and could force a delay in national polling scheduled for January. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election ap/20091124/ml_iran_election AP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:26:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r568404543.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=eGsqvmb59FeczaVYbHAIOw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) is welcomed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at Miraflores Palace in Caracas November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout (VENEZUELA POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS" border="0" /></a>AP - Iran's official news agency reports a political activist and former head of the Tehran municipal council has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r568404543.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=eGsqvmb59FeczaVYbHAIOw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) is welcomed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at Miraflores Palace in Caracas November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout (VENEZUELA POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091124/wl_nm/us_philippines_abduction_emergency nm/20091124/us_philippines_abduction_emergency Reuters world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:52:16 GMT Reuters - The Philippines declared a state of emergency in two southern provinces and in a nearby city on Tuesday, a day after at least 24 people were killed in election-related violence. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/wl_nm/us_jordan_parliament_king nm/20091123/us_jordan_parliament_king Reuters world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:43:01 GMT Reuters - Jordan's King Abdullah has dissolved parliament halfway through its four-year term and called for early elections, state television reported Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_romania_presidential_elections ap/20091123/eu_romania_presidential_elections AP world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_romania_presidential_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.5315b486355e4e1ca572783b932530ea.romania_elections_xvg126.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=k3TlW_TE83whPOOhSGl1QA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Romania's President in office, Traian Basescu, smiles upon seeing exit polls in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday Nov. 22, 2009. Romania held presidential elections, the first since the country joined the European Union in 2007.According to exit polls Basescu leads after the first round followed by the Social Democracy Party candidate Mircea Geoana. An election runoff will be held on Dec. 6. (AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda)" border="0" /></a>AP - The third-place candidate in Romania's presidential election threw his support Monday behind the Western-backed socialist who faces the centrist president in a runoff seen as key to the country's emergence from political and economic crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_romania_presidential_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.5315b486355e4e1ca572783b932530ea.romania_elections_xvg126.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=k3TlW_TE83whPOOhSGl1QA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="Romania's President in office, Traian Basescu, smiles upon seeing exit polls in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday Nov. 22, 2009. Romania held presidential elections, the first since the country joined the European Union in 2007.According to exit polls Basescu leads after the first round followed by the Social Democracy Party candidate Mircea Geoana. An election runoff will be held on Dec. 6. (AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka_politics ap/20091123/as_sri_lanka_politics AP world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:11:04 GMT AP - Sri Lanka's president signed a decree Monday calling for early elections, hoping to take advantage of his popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/wl_nm/us_philippines_abduction_deaths nm/20091123/us_philippines_abduction_deaths Reuters world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:38:51 GMT Reuters - Gunmen kidnapped and killed at least 21 people in the southern Philippines on Monday, apparently in a bid to prevent one of them filing her husband's nomination for elections next year, the military said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/wl_nm/us_sudan_elections nm/20091122/us_sudan_elections Reuters world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:21:46 GMT Reuters - Sudan on Sunday announced a six-day delay to long-awaited elections to make up for hold-ups in registering millions of voters in the oil-producing country. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_saddam_s_supporters ap/20091122/ml_iraq_saddam_s_supporters AP world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:15:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_saddam_s_supporters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.67ac9c2bdc5343648f486f954c329100.iraq_saddam_s_supporters_bag113.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=NhQ.6UEKl.l8ca8.hhqYlQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="FILE - In this file photo made on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen at a rally in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.(AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani,File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_saddam_s_supporters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.67ac9c2bdc5343648f486f954c329100.iraq_saddam_s_supporters_bag113.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=NhQ.6UEKl.l8ca8.hhqYlQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this file photo made on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen at a rally in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.(AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani,File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_elections ap/20091122/ml_iran_elections AP world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:00:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.31b386fbfd5848f987d1f581288b5407.iran___vah101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OoTwONw0jUrkQdc0GnaRXw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, second right, in prison uniform among other defendants, sits at the court room in Tehran, Iran. Abtahi, a top reformer has been sentenced to six years in jail after he stood trial on charges of fomenting unrest to topple the Iranian regime, his lawyer said Sunday. Abtahi is one of more than 100 leading moderates detained after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara, file) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT" border="0" /></a>AP - Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_elections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.31b386fbfd5848f987d1f581288b5407.iran___vah101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OoTwONw0jUrkQdc0GnaRXw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, second right, in prison uniform among other defendants, sits at the court room in Tehran, Iran. Abtahi, a top reformer has been sentenced to six years in jail after he stood trial on charges of fomenting unrest to topple the Iranian regime, his lawyer said Sunday. Abtahi is one of more than 100 leading moderates detained after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara, file) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/wl_nm/us_iran_election_sentence nm/20091122/us_iran_election_sentence Reuters world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:46:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/wl_nm/us_iran_election_sentence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r153936620.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=870jg6jmPe0YKZT3S_WJew--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Former Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, dressed in prison uniform, speaks at a tribunal session in Tehran August 1, 2009. REUTERS/Fars News" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A reformist former vice-president accused of fomenting street unrest after Iran's June election was released on bail of about $700,000 on Sunday, the judiciary said, after reports he had been sentenced to six years in jail.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091122/wl_nm/us_iran_election_sentence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r153936620.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=870jg6jmPe0YKZT3S_WJew--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Former Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, dressed in prison uniform, speaks at a tribunal session in Tehran August 1, 2009. REUTERS/Fars News" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/wl_nm/us_russia_congress_medvedev nm/20091121/us_russia_congress_medvedev Reuters world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:57:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/wl_nm/us_russia_congress_medvedev"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/i/r2857669331.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=.Z_Se5wLVWWWB4hmnFBCRQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at the opening of the United Russia party congress in St. Petersburg, November 21, 2009. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev scolded leaders of Russia's ruling party on Saturday for "bad political habits" and ordered them to win future elections fairly.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/wl_nm/us_russia_congress_medvedev"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/i/r2857669331.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=.Z_Se5wLVWWWB4hmnFBCRQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at the opening of the United Russia party congress in St. Petersburg, November 21, 2009. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_albania_opposition_rally nm/20091120/us_albania_opposition_rally Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:24:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_albania_opposition_rally"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r2275380699.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=uhcUzWu95BD_IEPUhobYbA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Supporters of the opposition Socialist Party march during a protest against the government in Tirana November 20, 2009. The protesters demand a recount of votes from June's general election which they say was stolen. The Socialists have been boycotting parliament since the June 28 election which gave the ruling Democratic Party a second mandate by the smallest margin in any election since the end of communism in Albania. REUTERS/Arben Celi" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Tens of thousands of Albanian opposition Socialist Party supporters launched their latest protest Friday to demand the government either recount the vote in a controversial June 28 election or hold another.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/electionsworld/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_albania_opposition_rally"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r2275380699.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=uhcUzWu95BD_IEPUhobYbA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="Supporters of the opposition Socialist Party march during a protest against the government in Tirana November 20, 2009. The protesters demand a recount of votes from June's general election which they say was stolen. The Socialists have been boycotting parliament since the June 28 election which gave the ruling Democratic Party a second mandate by the smallest margin in any election since the end of communism in Albania. REUTERS/Arben Celi" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)