12/01/2008
Parties neck and neck in Romania election (CNN)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romania's parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 90 percent of the vote counted, raising the prospect of tough negotiations to form a coalition.
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12/01/2008
Catering Companies Feel The Pinch Of Fewer Parties (WBBM Newsradio 780 Chicago)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Many companies are cutting back on holiday parties this year because of the struggling economy, and less celebrating means less business for local banquet halls and catering services.
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12/01/2008
Romanian opposition parties draw even in the polls. (Deutsche Welle)
Partial results for Romania's parliamentary elections show the opposition parties the Social Democrats (PSD) and the Liberal Democrats (PD-L) in a tie.
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12/01/2008
Mozambique: 67 Election Complaints From Opposition Parties (AllAfrica.com)
Opposition political parties have lodged 67 complaints related to Mozambique's local elections held on 19 November.
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12/01/2008
Nepali parties to announce political committee (People's Daily)
The major parties in Nepali coalition government have reached a verbal understanding to form the much-awaited political committee that will work as an advisory body for the government. A meeting of main three ruling parties -- Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Communist Party Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum -- held here on Monday decided to form the committee by ...
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12/01/2008
First exhibition by political parties (Moldova.org)
For the first time in Moldova, the political parties will come together at an exhibition to present their political platforms. The exhibit will be held at the Palace of the Republic on December 3 and 4, 2008. At a news conference on Monday, Igor Botan, the executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy ADEPT, said that the exhibition is aimed at offering the political parties ...
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12/01/2008
Backgrounder: Major parties' stances on fighting global warming (People's Daily)
The 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with the 4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, will take place on Dec. 1-12in Poznan, central Poland. Major parties, namely the European Union, the United States, Africa and China, still hold different positions on the issue. For the EU, the 27-member ...
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12/01/2008
Holiday parties: Fun, with trimmings (Cape Cod Times)
Appetizer trays may not be circulating as freely this year, but holiday parties are still going strong despite the economic downturn, Cape caterers say.
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12/01/2008
Canada's opposition parties plot to topple government (Daily Telegraph)
Canada's opposition parties have agreed on the principals of a deal to topple the government and form a new administration.
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12/01/2008
Zimbabwe: Parties Agree on Constitutional Amendment, But (AllAfrica.com)
Negotiators representing the three main political parties in Zimbabwe on Thursday signed a draft amendment to the constitution, but the Tsvangirai led MDC say obstacles to implementing a government of national unity still remain.
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