• In a riposte to Mr Yushchenko's allegations (backed by western election observers) of vote-rigging in Mr Yanukovich's power base in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine, Mr Yanukovich has alleged ballot-stuffing in Mr Yushchenko's Ukrainian-speaking stronghold in the west, and has filed his own complaint to the Supreme Court.

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  • So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.

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  • And Mr Abdullah - Mr Karzai's closest rival in the discredited August poll - said he was not optimistic that Mr Karzai could "meet the expectations of the Afghan people and the friends of Afghanistan".

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  • Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election was particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.

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  • Shown a photograph featuring Mr McDaid - alleged to have been taken moments before Mr McDaid's death - Mr Boyle was asked why he appeared tidy and unstressed.

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  • Mr Berezovsky helped to pay for Mr Yeltsin's re-election campaign in 1996, befriended Mr Yeltsin's daughter and son-in-law, and had ready access to the Kremlin until the two men fell out stormily in April last year.

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  • It is fair to assume that Mr Hussein's regime knew about Mr al-Zarqawi's presence in Iraq.

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  • The diaries of both Mr. Carter and Mr. Jordan reflect an 11:00 a.m. appointment on December 22, 1997. 902-DC-00000231 (Mr. Carter's diary) and 1034-DC-00000103 (Mr. Jordan's diary).

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  • Imaginative though the new plans are, they are based on the belief that you can persuade the private sector to borrow and spend more in the current environment, even when everyone's natural instinct -including, apparently, Mr Osborne's - is to conserve cash and get control of their debts.

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  • Al-Quds Al-Arabi welcomed the BBC's decision to take Mr Kilroy-Silk's morning TV talk show off the air pending an investigation of his comments.

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  • The coalition between Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Mr Tsvangirai's MDC party was formed under pressure from regional leaders after the disputed 2008 election.

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  • But we aim to conclude those remaining - including Mr Gholampour's - by summer 2011 or earlier.

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  • However a pact between CiU - Mr Mas's centre-right nationalist coalition - and Esquerra Republicana will not be easy.

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  • And table tennis runs in the family - Mr Buddell's 15-year-old son is showing promise and his partner Marketa is a former champion in the Czech Republic.

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  • In fact, the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecasts - on which Mr Cameron's economic strategy depends - show household debt ratios going up over the next few years.

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  • Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's PTI draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election is particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.

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  • Likud-Beitenu's dominance on the right has been challenged by Habayit Hayehudi, led by millionaire businessman Naftali Bennett - Mr Netanyahu's former chief-of-staff.

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  • The BBC Trust - the corporation's governing body - said Mr MacQuarrie's findings were "very concerning".

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  • Mr Ruggiero, one of the strongest pro-European voices in Mr Berlusconi's centre-right team, strongly criticised his cabinet colleagues last Thursday, for negative attitudes towards the European Union.

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  • Then, in February 1977, Morton Halperin travelled to London to testify on Agee's behalf in a proceeding that resulted -- despite Mr. Halperin's efforts -- in Agee's deportation from England.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • According to public records, Mr. Hirshberg's 11, 374-square-foot home has two elevators and a pool, and Mr. Wallette's Spanish-style home, which was built in 2009, has marble countertops and an outdoor kitchen and bar.

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  • One explanation for Mr Chirac's embrace of a soft-left, statist, instinctively anti-capitalist creed could be that he is playing Mr Blair's post-ideological game of stealing the opposition's clothes ahead of the 2007 presidential election.

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  • Unlike Mr. Schnabel's crockery-encrusted canvases or Mr. Salle's spooky riffs on alienation, Mr. Fischl's febrile work was representational, deeply personal and obsessed with naked human flesh, mostly female.

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  • MPs from all three coalition parties - including Mr Papaconstantinou's Pasok - signed a proposal calling for his investigation for allegedly tampering with a public document.

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  • Labour leader Ed Miliband took the unusual step of responding to the statement - rather than Mr Hunt's shadow responding - and accused Prime Minister David Cameron of leaving Mr Hunt to "carry the can" in an "insult to the House and to the British public".

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  • Last month, Mr Bush re-submitted Mr Bolton's name in the hope of winning approval from the outgoing Senate before the new Democrat-controlled one comes in next month.

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  • The family - including Mr al-Hilli's dentist wife Iqbal, 47, and her mother, were murdered in their car while on holiday near Chevaline, close to the tourist destination of Lake Annecy.

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  • Some say that Mr Zuma has been busy behind the scenes concocting a deal between Mr Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwe's vice-president and Mr Mnangagwa's bitter rival.

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  • But it was the essence of Mr Rennie's introduction to Nick Clegg - and of Mr Clegg's address itself.

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  • Between Mr. Day's stiff-upper-lip Victor and Mr. Gross's urbanely exasperated Elyot, this "Private Lives" is quite good enough to be worth seeing.

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