Polls have closed in Japan's nationwide election for its lower house of parliament. Media exit polling is predicting a big defeat for the party that has ruled Japan for more than half a century. Just minutes after voting concluded Sunday in Japan, m

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The tone of the rhetoric in the U.S. presidential campaign is sharpening with less than a week to go until Election Day. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are focused on the economy and each other in the final days of the campaign, as

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 April 2007 One of Nigeria's best-known citizens, the writer Wole Soyinka, has given his support to calls for another presidential election. Opposition leaders and international observers have described the April 21 electi

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Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned to the country to lead her party in general elections, scheduled for December. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the polls are being held to restore democracy in the country, which

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 06 January 2006 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was taken back into the operating room for the third time on Friday after doctors performed a brain scan on him. The medical

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By Dan Robinson Washington 20 October 2006 Public opinion polls show Americans are increasingly frustrated with the job members of Congress are doing, less than three weeks before the November 7 mid-term legislative elections. The latest numbers are

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By Joe Bavier Abidjan 25 June 2006 Female police officer casts her vote at the city of Nouakchott, Mauritania, Sunday, June 25, 2006 The people of Mauritania are voting in a constitutional referendum aimed at bringing democratic reforms to the West

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Obama Leads Polls in Romneys Home State of Michigan In November, Michigan college student Zachary Harner will cast his first vote in a presidential election. He said that vote will go to fellow Michigan native Romney. He was born in Detroit. His fath

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This is the last day of campaigning in Israel, where voters on Tuesday are to elect a new prime minister. With security as a major concern in the elections, polls have hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party in the lead. The polling comes a

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Hope Amid Frustration as Nepalis Head to Polls KATHMANDU As Nepalis head to the polls on Tuesday to elect members of a new Constituent Assembly, many are left to wonder whether the vote will end years of political paralysis that has hurt the Himalaya

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By Greg Flakus Houston 11 March 2008 Voters in the southern state of Mississippi are going to the polls in that state's Democratic Party presidential primary. Opinion polls put Senator Barack Obama in first place, but, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports fr

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By Greg Flakus Houston 19 February 2008 Voters in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin are at the polls in that state's primary. The main contest is on the Democratic Party side, where New York Senator Hillary Clinton has worked hard for a much-needed v

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By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 08 February 2006 Polls have closed in Nepal's controversial municipal elections, which King Gyanendra said would be the first step toward restoring democratic freedoms acro

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 03 February 2008 The candidates for the Republican and Democratic U.S. presidential nominations are campaigning hard in advance of Tuesday's crucial round of contests in 22 states. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Washing

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今天我们要学的词是 dead heat. Dead heat 意思是旗鼓相当,不相上下。The Connecticut Senate race remains a dead heat. 竞选康涅狄克州参议员的候选人旗鼓相当,难分上下。With less than a month left before the U.

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With four days left in the U.S. presidential campaign, Republican John McCain is mounting a furious last minute bid to overtake Democrat Barack Obama in the polls. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports on the final days of the 2008 race for

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 19 August 2007 Thailand's PM Surayud Chulanont casts his vote during a referendum on a new constitution at a polling station in Bangkok, 19 Aug 2007 Thai voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved a constitution drafted by th

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 08 April 2007 Nigeria's president Olusegun Obasanjo (File) President Olusegun Obasanjo has put Nigerian security agencies on full alert ahead of crucial state and presidential elections, which begin at the weekend. Sarah Simpso

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Republican presidential nominee John McCain has shaken up the race for the White House and pumped new excitement into his campaign by choosing Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine takes a loo

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain campaigned in the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado Friday, hoping to turn his political fortunes around with only 10 days before Election Day. 共和党总统候选人约翰麦凯恩星期五在落基山的

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