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

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

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