In the 2000 election, CNN and other networks projected Al Gore the winner of that state before the Central Time Zone polls closed in the Florida Panhandle.

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As a band played the Iraqi national anthem, officials lowered the old flag and hoisted a temporary one at a ceremony at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office in Baghdad's Green Zone.

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Al-Maliki cast his ballot in Baghdad's Al-Rasheed Hotel, in the highly protected and fortified International Zone.

CNN: Peace rules as polls close in Iraq

Even with the current guidelines, Al-Khatib said, some patients may fall into a gray zone and that each physician needs to use clinical judgment to make recommendations.

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Kenyan troops have launched a cross-border operation against Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia with the apparent intention of setting up a buffer zone across the border.

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Some analysts say the Kenyan government wants to establish a buffer zone along its border with Somalia following a string of attacks blamed on the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group.

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City's oil-rich Arab billionaires Sheikh Mansour and club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak are set to bankroll a January spending spree with the intention of lifting City clear of the relegation zone.

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Al-Hamadany brought his own canvases and those of about a dozen other artists not allowed access to the Green Zone, artwork which Brownfield shipped in tubes to his mother's house in Michigan.

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