According to the exit polling, only about one in ten voters favored her closest rival, Social Democrat lawmaker Algirdas Butkevicius.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Egypt has been mediating between rival Palestinian factions Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Bereket had harsh words for Ethiopia's Horn of Africa rival Eritrea, which the United States accuses of backing al-Shabab in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

Campaigning officially began Saturday in the runoff election between incumbent President Hamid Karzai and top rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

President Vieira was killed in March within hours of his chief political rival dying in a bomb blast.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

The Paris Air Show ends Sunday which still gives Boeing time to catch up to rival Airbus in securing new aircraft orders.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Mr.Karzai's chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, also has questioned the United Nations' role in the election.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

"The advancement we're going to make on the production and research side of things in the next 10 years is going to rival the last 100 years."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

He says many of the Embera report they fled their homes after one or another of the groups tried to force them to collaborate in attacks against the rival group.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The surprise move comes after reports that News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch is in discussions with Microsoft to deliver paid access to News Corporation content through rival search engine Bing.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Ms.Tymoshenko said in a televised appeal to the nation Saturday she is convinced her rival, Victor Yanukovich, who seeks closer ties with neighboring Russia, had not won the presidential election.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19