Republic of Congo profile - Overview
… experienced the first of two destructive bouts of fighting when disputed parliamentary elections in 1993 led to bloody, ethnically-based fighting…
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… longest-serving leaders having first come to power three decades ago. He gained his latest seven-year term after elections in July 2009 which…
View ArticleBroadband roll-out: Councils 'yet to get' government cash
£530m to help meet its aim of delivering broadband to virtually all of the country by the next election in 2015. But a survey of councils found…
View ArticleVoting Rights Act's core quashed by US Supreme Court
… election laws need monitoring. The law requires all or parts of 15 US states, mostly in the South, to receive federal approval for election changes.
View ArticleSpending Review: Does the election start here?
As the Chancellor makes his final preparations to the Spending Review, Nick Robinson has been imagining how it might affect the next general election…
View ArticleMongolia votes in presidential polls amid mining debate
Voters in Mongolia go to the polls on Wednesday to elect a president, with mining revenue and the wealth gap topping the debate. President Tsakhia…
View ArticleMongolia election: Wealth distribution a key issue
Mongolia's elections will be a test of how happy the population is with the distribution of its new-found mineral wealth.
View ArticleEd Markey wins vacant Massachusetts Senate seat
Democratic Representative Edward Markey has won election to Secretary of State John Kerry's former Senate seat. Mr Markey, a 37-year veteran of…
View ArticleSpark
… to buy a boat. Professional storyteller Katrice Horsley was an elective mute until the age of five, when the words came tumbling out, wrapped…
View ArticleKevin Rudd backers 'in Australia leadership move'
… is being circulated among Labor politicians, Australian reports say. Australia is set for a general election in less than three months that polls…
View ArticleAustralia politics: Gillard, Rudd in leadership vote
Both contenders have committed to stepping down from politics if they lose. The move comes ahead of a 14 September election, which polls suggest…
View ArticleSpending Review: George Osborne to reveal £11.5bn in cuts
George Osborne is preparing to wield the axe in a fresh round of spending cuts that will set the tone for the next general election. The chancellor…
View ArticleMore cuts: Not in Plan A
It was he who told us when it would end. Spending cuts would not be needed by the time of the next election as, by then, the deficit would be…
View ArticleKevin Rudd ousts Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard
… s Labor Party. He won 57 votes in a leadership ballot called by Ms Gillard, who received 45 votes. The change comes ahead of an election called…
View ArticleSpending Review: Public sector staff to lose automatic pay rise
… to the plans if it wins the 2015 election. Briefing MPs on the plans, which will kick in just before the election, Mr Osborne insisted the. Millions…
View ArticleGeorge Osborne announces council tax freeze to continue
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the council tax freeze, due to come to an end in 2014, will be extended for a further two years.
View ArticleAustralia: Kevin Rudd beats Julia Gillard in leadership vote
Kevin Rudd has ousted Prime Minister Julia Gillard as leader of Australia's Labor Party, polling 57 votes to her 45.
View ArticleSpending Review: Osborne draws election battle lines
… election strategist, attempts to set out the dividing lines with Labour ahead of the next general election, in his Spending Review statement,…
View ArticleSpending review: Culture department budget cut by 7%
… his plan to help reduce the deficit. Labour has said it will stick to the plans if it wins the next election. Making the announcement in the House…
View ArticleLibya profile - Leaders
Chairman of the General National Congress: Nouri Abusahmen Libya's interim parliament elected Nouri Abusahmen as its chairman, and therefore de…
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