30-06-2009 Mauritania opposition to contest presidential poll

Anti-putsch lawmaker says opposition leaders have decided to take part in presidential election.

22-06-2009 Iran Admits Discrepancies in 3 Million Votes

Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of the former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, attended a rally for Mir Hussein Moussavi. Iranian state television reported on Sunday that Ms. Hashemi and four other members of the family had been arrested.

18-06-2009 NATO adds troops ahead of Afghan election

The outgoing NATO Secretary-General says between 8,000 and 10,000 international troops will join the alliance-led military force in Afghanistan for the August elections.

18-06-2009 'Iran's election challenged Western democracy'

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Iranian nation's massive turnout in the recent presidential elections has challenged Western democracy.

16-06-2009 Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious

Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmadinejad's reformist challenger, claims he was robbed of the presidency and has called for the results to be canceled.

15-06-2009 Iran bans election protest rally

Irani's government has banned a rally by supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, amid growing unrest over last week's presidential poll.

15-06-2009 Biden has doubts but reserves judgment on Iran vote

US Vice President Joe Biden has questioned the "accurateness" of the results in Iran's hotly-contested presidential election but admitted that the US lacked sufficient facts.

15-06-2009 Ahmadinejad rejects 'irregularities' in election

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hails the massive turnout in Friday's crucial election leading to his landslide victory, while insisting that his re-election was not a fraud.

14-06-2009 Ahmadinejad hails election as 'great victory'

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hails the election as 'a great victory' saying the nation has disappointed the enemies via its large turnout.

14-06-2009 Iran rejects claims of voter fraud

Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli says there has been no 'written complaint' about voter fraud.

13-06-2009 A bigger struggle lies ahead

Predicting the results of Iranian elections is notoriously difficult. Both the 1997 and 2005 polls produced surprising results. The former propelled the reformist Mohammad Khatami to the presidency while the latter witnessed the rise of the incumbent Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

13-06-2009 32 million votes cast in elections

Iranian citizens abroad also flocked into Iran's diplomatic missions in 130 countries to cast their ballots.

13-06-2009 Ahmadinejad leads Iran vote

Separately, a former senior member of the National Security Council, Agha Mohammadi, said Ahmadinejad was likely to end the day with a narrow victory, avoiding the need for a runoff.

11-06-2009 U.S. Cautiously Awaits Iran Presidential Election

Underlying the U.S. reluctance to speak out are Iran's as-yet undelivered responses to President Barack Obama's overtures for engagement, which included his recent address in Cairo to the Muslim world and earlier, a televised New Year's address to the Iranian people and a series of diplomatic...

08-06-2009 Conservatives ahead in EU Parliament vote

Conservatives have been forging ahead in Europe as voters are favoring the conservatives in the European Parliament elections in France, Germany and elsewhere.

08-06-2009 March 14 claims win in Lebanon elections

The outcome will be a boost to the March 14 backers - the United States, Saudi Arabia and Egypt - and a stinging setback to Aoun, who held the biggest bloc of Christian MPs in the outgoing assembly.

07-06-2009 Polls open in Lebanon for general elections

50,000 soldiers and police have been deployed across the country to secure the environment for 3.2 million people eligible to vote in the country.

06-06-2009 Iran's Basij steps into election limelight

Hundreds of thousands of Basij volunteers expected to vote for Ahmadinejad in coming election.

01-06-2009 Election: Ahmadinejad reviews 'policy of compromise'

In a fresh attack on previous governments, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slams their nuclear policies and the voluntary suspension of uranium enrichment.

17-05-2009 Kuwaiti women in parliament for 1st time

Kuwaiti women have managed to put an end to the men-only era of their country's parliament by winning elections for the first time.