Filed Under (world updates) by CarmenGay on 21-08-2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia faces a possible hung parliament after elections on Saturday, with neither the ruling Labor party nor the opposition confident enough to claim victory and both acknowledging that a result might take days to be known.
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FACTBOX – How Australia would navigate a hung parliament
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 21-08-2010
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia faces it first hung parliament in decades with neither the ruling Labor party or the opposition likely to be able to form a majority government after Saturday’s election, a worst case outcome for financial markets.
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Australia looks to be heading for hung parliament
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 17-07-2010
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Obama casts Republicans as party of the rich
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 26-06-2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard gained an election-winning lead over the opposition in two new opinion polls published on Saturday, two days after ousting her predecessor.
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Australia’s new PM set to win election — polls
Filed Under (malaysia today) by admin on 25-06-2010
“The esteemed leader of the opposition must also be made reminded and be made aware that the rise and threat of religious militancy in the country were more prevalent when he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia ,” he said recently.
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BABILAND THE STORY OF THE BABI THAT ESCAPED BY MAGPIE « Engage …
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 17-06-2010
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s authorities and ruling party have shown they will give little space to the opposition in upcoming elections after barring access to polling stations and other abuses in a May vote, an opposition leader said.
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INTERVIEW – Egypt offering no space to opposition – politician
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 14-06-2010
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Hardliners attacked the car of a moderate Iranian opposition leader and surrounded the home of a senior cleric in the Shi’ite holy city of Qom on Sunday, the opposition Kaleme website reported.
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Hardliners target moderate Iranian opposition figures
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 12-06-2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called on Republicans on Saturday to vote for a delay in cutting government Medicare insurance payments to doctors, taking aim at the opposition party in a renewed election-year push for his new healthcare law.
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Obama takes aim at Republicans again on healthcare
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 09-06-2010
BERLIN(Reuters) – German voters prefer the opposition’s candidate for president — an anti-communist activist from East Germany — to Angela Merkel’s choice, a poll showed on Wednesday, dealing a fresh blow to the chancellor.
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Germans want opposition president in blow to Merkel
Filed Under (malaysia today) by admin on 02-06-2010
By Teoh El Sen – Free Malaysia Today , PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak today said that he would not be joining a procession and “round-table” conference on Friday organised by the opposition to protest the Israeli assault …
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National Express Malaysia: Najib: I won't join anti-Israel procession