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Indonesian KPU targets 75 pct participation in 2014 elections

The Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU) has set itself a target of 75 percent of eligible voters taking part ...

Indonesia`s police, military pledge neutrality ahead of general elections 2014

Indonesias security forces will play crucial roles in ensuring smooth, peaceful and fair implementation of direct ...

Coalition of Islamic parties is possible: PPP

The Secretary General of the United Development Party (PPP), Romahurmuzy, has said Islamic parties are most likely to ...

New Police Chief Has Crucial Task In Guarding General Elections 2014

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, early this year, announced a plan to name a successor to the then-retiring police ...

Golkar, PDIP in tight competition: Survey

The Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP) are in close competition for the top spot in the ...

Nine new ministers in Egypt cabinet reshuffle

Egypt`s President Mohamed Morsi swore in nine new ministers in a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday including key economic ...

Authorities to tighten security in 2014 general election

As Indonesia prepares for general election in 2014, government officials and other stakeholders are looking into ways ...

Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google

Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber ...

Clinton urges talks to end Egypt crisis

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday called for talks among all those involved in a showdown between the ...

Ashraf elected as new prime minister of Pakistan

Pakistan`s National Assembly, lower house of parliament, on Friday elected with a clear majority, Raja Pervez Ashraf, ...

Ukraine`s $13.4 bln soccer spend might become debt burden

Ukraine may never recover all of the billions of dollars it has spent to co-host next month`s European soccer ...

Iran says West behind deadly syria bombings - (d)

Iran on Friday condemned the latest deadly bomb blasts to reel its ally Syria in a 14-month-old uprising and accused ...

Egypt's Elbaradei unveils new party

Leading Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei on Saturday unveiled a new party he said was aimed at rescuing last ...

Syria`s Assad orders parliamentary elections on May 7

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Tuesday a presidential decree to hold the parliamentary elections on May 7, ...

S. Korea says North likely to step up verbal attack

North Korea is likely to step up verbal attacks against the South in a bid to influence upcoming elections but chances ...