Midweek elimination-round matches have further pared the field at the competition, which began with 24 teams on October 24.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

U.S.Special Envoy on Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke believes the second round of voting will be cleaner than the first.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The first round of voting on August 20 was marred by widespread fraud, which mostly benefited Mr.Karzai.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

"The preparations for the second round going on,". "Until now,we don't have any specific difficulties or challenges, and we are going to go ahead."

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

About 3,000 foreign election observers declared that, despite a few irregularities, the first round of Ukraine's presidential election on January 17 met international standards for honesty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

One of the opposition candidates in the first round of voting was killed by military police who said he was resisting arrest on suspicion of plotting a coup.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro will be let loose there." appeared relaxed and talkative as he answered questions on the Cuban television current affairs program Mesa Redonda or Round Table.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

There were 36 on board his landing craft. "Around 7:30 in the morning, we were hit by a round that come into starboard side proceeded to kill two soldiers and wound two very severely,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

And the Jordanian monarch came to the White House last week as a prelude to a new round of personal diplomacy by the president designed to get the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

But earlier,Buzz Aldrin the second man to walk on the moon took part in a NASA news conference where he pushed for a new round of space exploration, with the goal of sending astronauts to Mars.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

It has similarly failed to respond to an invitation by European Union Foreign Policy chief Javier Solana for a new round of talks on its nuclear program with the five permanent U.N.Security Council member countries and Germany,the P5+1.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

His main opponent, the controversial mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic, came in second with nearly The men will face each other in a final election round on January 10th, since they failed to gain the minimum of 50 percent plus one vote to win outright.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28