Iran’s presidential election heads to runoff
By Pooneh Nedai TEHRAN: Iran’s presidential election has headed to a runoff next week after the election commission said that no candidate has achieved the required 50% mark. On Friday, the 14th presidential election in Iran to choose the country’s ninth president after the Islamic revolution in 1979 was extended three times and it lasted until […]
Timorese Vote for the Election of 3rd President
A citizen casts his ballot at a polling station in Dili, Timor-Leste, on March 17, 2012. The Timorese people started casting their votes on Saturday in the country’s second presidential election as a free state in a crucial year to prove that they can run the country on their own, with the United Nation’s mission […]
Yemen Holds Presidential Election
Tawakel Karman, a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, with colored headscarf, gestures after voting at a polling station in Sanna, Yemen, Feb. 21, 2012. Yemenis headed for the polling stations Tuesday morning to vote for a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh with the aim of pulling the impoverished country back from possible […]