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Dec 24, 2007 at 10:16 AM |
The incumbent president of Uzbekistan, Islam A. Karimov, won 88.1 percent of the votes in a landslide presidential election yeseterday.
The results give Mr. Karimov overwhelming support for a third term, but the contest was widely accepted as a foregone conclusion and casts doubt on the country’s long-term stability.
While the Central Election Commission said the voting met electoral standards, the election drew criticism from Western election observers. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the West’s main mechanism for monitoring elections in the former Soviet sphere, and which sent a limited observer mission to Kyrgyzstan, said that the election failed to meet many O.S.C.E. benchmarks for democratic elections, were held in a strictly controlled environment, and that there had been no real opposition. “All the candidates publicly endorsed the incumbent,” the O.S.C.E. said. |
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Nov 28, 2007 at 09:53 AM |
Arab commentators Wednesday drew aside the revival of the talks Israelo-Palestinians as a U.S. media stunt -staged and noy very likely to carry out peace.
Some alleged that the goal of President George W. Bush in assembling the conference of Tuesday in Annapolis, Maryland, was to save its image after failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to persuade of the Arab states their mortal enemy was Iran, not Israel. "the failure of Annapolis is now clear (president Mahmoud) Abbas will turn over to Palestine without anything," said EL-Erian d' Essam, an elder chief in the Moslem brotherhood of Egypt. "the conference was conceived for public relations and the participants were obliged to take part," it disputed.
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Nov 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM |
Pekka-Eroc Auvinen, a gunman that killed eight people at a Finnish school last week had chatted online with a US teenager who recently admitted to plotting a similar attack on his school, local media reported on Monday.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dillon Cossey, who pleaded guilty last month to plotting an armed rampage at his high school, shared an interest in a video game named "Hitman" with Finnish killer Pekka-Eric Auvinen.
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Nov 11, 2007 at 03:21 PM |
A Russian oil tanker split in half during a storm in the Kerch close between the Azov and the Black Sea, dumping an estimated 1000 to 1200 tons of fuel oil, Russian media reported Sunday.
The weather conditions remain harsh, which hinders efforts for the disaster, as the rescue of the vessel 13 crew members, whose life is in danger, not at the moment, Russian Vesti news channel said.
"This is a problem that takes a few years to resolve. Fuel oil is a heavy substance, and is now sinking of the seabed," an official of the Russian state environmental protection agency Rosprirodnadzor was cited.
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Nov 11, 2007 at 03:08 PM |
One fan was slain by the police during a fight between rival supporters in Italy, said the officials.
Local authorities said there was a "tragic mistake" to the police intervened to suppress the violence between supporters of the Roman team Lazio and Juventus Turin-based.
The victim, a Lazio fan was on his way to an Inter Milan-Lazio game when he was shot dead in a highway rest stop near the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
Later about 200 armed followers attacked a police barracks in Rome.
The Inter-Lazio match was postponed after the shootout and other games started 10 minutes late, with players and officials wearing black armbands.
The Juventus fans were on their way from Naples to a distance match against Parma.
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