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Suan Dusit exit poll, the PPP won 256 of the 480 contested seats, with the Democrats coming in second with 162 seats. But another poll conducted by ABAC had the PPP with 202 seats and Democrats with 146, and several of the medium-sized parties with more than 40 seats. Two main rivals in Sunday's polls were the People Power Party (PPP), PPP is headed by Samak Sundaravej, 72, a veteran Thai politician with a right-wing past who has dubbed himself a "nominee" for Thaksin and whose main platform has been to bring Thaksin Shinawatra back to Thailand and the Democrat Party, the main opposition party Democrat Party is led by Abhisit, 43, an Oxford-educated liberal politician who has campaigned on his clean record . Last year's coup which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra some 45 million Thais are eligible to cast their ballots,Voting at 85,000 polling stations nationwide opened at 8 am and closed at 3 pm. today on Sunday, 23 December 2007, with unofficial results expe...

Islam Karimov's victory a foregone conclusion ,Karimov, who turns 70 in January and has led the country for 18 years, is against the three other candidates who registered with the election commission are regarded as Karimov loyalists and have praised him publicly and appears to be an eye wash election. External observers in the degree of choice facing Uzbek voters needs no know opposition as the opposition parties are not allowed to participate. Legal basis for Karimov's candidacy remains contentious, since the Uzbek constitution bars a president from serving more than two terms.Authorities already ignored the rule when they approved his bid in mid-November. Karimov, a former communist party boss, has already extended his term in office twice through referendums, in 1995 and 2002. The OSCE's election-monitoring body, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a recent report that "neither the [Uzbek] election administration nor the represe...

Country faces tenth postponement to vote to elect its President in Lebanon parliament is due to the gap widens between the pro-Western ruling parliamentary majority and Syrian-backed opposition. Beirut: 23 December:Lawmakers were set to meet on Saturday to vote for a new head of state, but the session was put off the previous night until 29th December. As UN Under Secretary General Lynn Pascoe warned the Security Council on Friday that the situation in Lebanon was "dangerous and unsustainable," many politicians and the media were not expecting any vote to take place before year end. Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a main leader of the opposition, said that if no president is elected next Saturday, he would continue to "set weekly sessions in January until we elect a president." The move comes amid what the media has termed public muscle-flexing between the US, which has declared its support for the Beirut government, and Syria which along with its ally Iran backs th...

Indian Air Force jet trainer aircraft crashed while taking off at Bhubaneswar Airport. The pilot of an Indian Air Force jet trainer had a narrow escape today on Saturday as it took off it caught fire and the pilot quickly ejected himself, the sources said. The aircraft had landed at the airport for refueling and soon caught fire as it started for onward journey. The plane was one of the dozens of jet trainers flying from Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal to Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

"All elections are an internal affair," Medvedev Dmitry Medvedev said he would not pay attention to any foreign criticism of next year's presidential poll as he handed in his ballot application today. "All the decisions are taken by the people and it is before the people that the Duma (parliament) and the president are answerable, he added. "What is there to be afraid of?" he asked. The 42-year-old protege of Putin as required by electoral law to hand in his application for the presidential vote at the Central Election Commission by Sunday. Last week Putin endorsed Medvedev, saying "I completely and fully support this candidacy." Medvedev was duly approved as the candidate of the ruling United Russia party on Monday. He is not expected to face a strong challenge, as opposition parties are under heavy Kremlin control. Putin is obliged to stand down as the constitution forbids person from holding more than two consecutive presidential terms. However...

Yatsenyuk's candidacy was put forth by the factions of Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc and the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc. The two parties formed a majority coalition in parliament on Nov. 29. Ukraine's elect Prime Minister Tymoshenko looked confident after she received parliament vote to approve pro-Western coalition leader Yulia Tymoshenko's return as prime minister on Tuesday. Tymoshenko required minimum of 226 votes in the Supreme Rada of total 450 members, She attained all 156 members of her eponymous bloc in support of her nomination from the coalition of eponymous bloc and all but two of the 70 member pro-presidential Our Ukraine party. After the latest vote, Tymoshenko said the new government would target corruption as its first priority, particularly in the areas of privatization and energy. President Viktor Yushchenko's ally in the 2004 mass protests that brought him to power, Tymoshenko was sacked by the president after about eight months in the p...

PM Dr Singh airspace breached by another spacecraft The security forces repeat lapse as that of the Parliament attack episode.PM was in Bilaspur to address a rally as part of the election campaign.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was about to take for Palampur for addressing an election rally, Addl Superintendent of Police Bimal Bupta said.when another helicopter of Air Deccan landed in the midst of PM's copter take-off, as he also had permission to land at different time or place but because of reason best known to the piolts breached airspace of PM carrier. Police took the pilot Col K Mehta and co pilot Col S M Sehgal into custody when they landed the helicopter for picking up Congress leader R K Dhawan even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was about to take for Palampur for addressing an election rally, Addl Superintendent of Police Bimal Bupta said. Air Deccan,helicopter has been seized by the security forces as the crew allegedly misbehaved with security forces. A case of breachi...

Snowstorms Bring Chaos To States Updated:10:26, Monday December 17, 2007 Parts of the US have been blanketed with nearly a foot of snow. Shoppers in Ohio struggle through snow Shoppers in Ohio struggle through snow Cities such as Chicago and Boston were hit while major airports like O'Hare International faced major disruption. The snowstorm brought chaos to the Midwest before moving into New England. Around 30cm of the white stuff fell on upstate New York, although New York city was spared. Advertisement Thousands of people were left without power in New Jersey, Long Island and parts of Connecticut. Around 25cm of snow fell across parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Forecasters warned that around 14ins of snow would fall in parts of New England. The wintry blast came a week after a Midwest ice storm was blamed for 13 deaths and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes.

Maj. Gen. Graham Binns,commander of British forces in Basra, said the city had been pulled from the grip of its enemies as British army has handed over responsibility on sunday the region in Iraq under their ambit and said,"I now formally hand it back to its friends." Binns , Basra's governor, the Iraqi commander inked their signatures to papers giving Iraq control of the far southern province. Mowafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, said Iraq was ready. "The security improvements didn't come from nothing, but were the result of huge efforts from both the government and Iraqi people in fighting terrorism, extremism, militias and outlaws,"" al-Rubaie said. U.S. officials worry a power vacuum may hamper supply route which could influence of Iran and threaten land routes used by the Americans to bring ammunition, food and other supplies from Kuwait to troops to the north. Binns said British forces would remain to help the Iraqis, but wou...