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Members of Israel's 18th Knesset, the Israeli parliament, stand during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem in February 2009.
Israel sets January date for early elections
AFP 16 Oct 2012
  Israel's parliament voted Tuesday to dissolve itself and hold early elections on 22 January, a move...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrates from people's balcony at Miraflores Palace in Caracas 7 October 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Venezuela's Chavez re-elected to extend socialist rule
Reuters 08 Oct 2012
CARACAS ­­­­— Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez comfortably won re-election Sunday...
Voter casts her ballot in Presidential Elelctions runoff, Shalateen, Red Sea, 16 June 2012. Run-off between the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.  
Former NDP lawmakers making fresh bid for office
Omar Halawa 04 Oct 2012
Seventy-seven former MPs associated with Hosni Mubarak's dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) have banded...
A huge banner holds last slogan of disbanded National Democratic Party (NDP), in front of its burnt headquarters, Downtown Cairo, Aril 4,2012.
Former NDP parliamentarians join forces for next polls
Al-Masry Al-Youm 18 Sep 2012
Former MPs from the formerly-ruling National Democratic Party have formed a new coalition to compete in the next...
Construction workers renovate a bombed-out building in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Reconstruction is on the peak around many parts of the city following years of heavy fighting that has seen almost all of the city reduced to rubble. (AFP Photo/Mustafa Abdi)
Update: Somali lawmakers elect Mohamud as next president
Reuters 11 Sep 2012
Somalia's lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Monday for Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the country's next president,...
Supporters of the Justice and Construction Party, the political arm of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, celebrate the end of the election campaign in Tripoli.
Deadly blasts shake Libya capital on Muslim Eid
AFP
Reuters
19 Aug 2012
Twin car bomb blasts killed two people in the Libyan capital at dawn on Sunday on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-...
Libya on edge before first post-Qadhafi election
AP 06 Jul 2012
TRIPOLI, Libya  — The killing of an electoral worker and calls for a boycott on the eve of Libya's first...
Hamas and Fatah reconciliation
Hamas, Fatah in contact regarding govt formation
Al-Masry Al-Youm 26 Jun 2012
Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas are making contacts to arrange for a meeting that would discuss efforts to form a...
Fate of farmers union uncertain after recent political events
Steven Viney 20 Jun 2012
After months of campaigning to establish Egypt’s first grassroots farmers union, as well as coordinating with...
Abdelaziz Belkhadem, head of Algeria's most powerful political party, the National Liberation Front, is back-dropped by a large national flag as he addresses supporters at a rally in Algiers, Sunday, 6 May 2012, on the final day of campaigning ahead of Algeria's elections. Algerians are gearing up for legislative elections on upcoming Thursday and the government is urging people to vote to avoid the low turnouts of past contests. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm)
Algerian women claw their way into parliament
AFP 16 May 2012
Algeria's legislative election saw women take almost a third of the seats, making the national assembly ...