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...would need coalition partners - perhaps from among the Kurdish nationalist parties that again polled strongly enough in their own areas to potentially earn a kingmaking role in Baghdad, or from the Sadrists and other Shi'ite Islamist parties, or even from Allawi's bloc. But Allawi has alleged widespread fraud by his opponent's supporters, setting the stage for a potentially violent struggle over the election's legitimacy. For many Sunnis who voted for the first time on Sunday, being told that the election was rigged against them would reinforce their alienation from the post-Saddam political order - and raise...
...have visited the Palace during her [Queen Elizabeth] 58 years on the throne ... the South African president is probably the first to have faced a multitude of criminal charges." Zuma was charged with rape five years ago, but he was acquitted at trial. He also faced charges of fraud, racketeering, money laundering, tax evasion and corruption - but all were dropped before last year's general elections. (See pictures of Zuma and the worst-dressed world leaders...
...Thus, democracy Iraqi-style - a little fraud, sectarianism, extralegal government intimidation and the underlying fear of violence. Iraq has by now had more practice at choosing its own leaders in relatively open elections than perhaps any other Middle Eastern country besides Israel and Lebanon. But while the Bush Administration had hoped this would create a democratic ripple effect throughout the region, the results of Iraq's elections have been less than edifying. The politicians who came to power after the country's first parliamentary elections four years ago have been unable to resolve such core issues as sharing oil revenue...
...Inside the fortified government headquarters, Diyala Governor Abdul-Nasser al-Mahdwe is relatively optimistic that the elections - the fourth poll since the U.S invasion brought democracy to Iraq - will go smoothly. "The country is getting better at elections," he tells TIME. "In the first, the fraud was about 40%. In the second, let's say 20%. Now it's not going to be that much...
...based think tank aimed at promoting entrepreneurship. "But the idea that any of these theories have anything to do with creating the current crisis is, of course, ridiculous." He says Greece is to blame for its own mess, having amassed a huge pile of debt from years of statistical fraud in Greece's public-accounts sector. "Politicians turn to conspiracy theories because they feel they need someone else to blame," Munkhammar says. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...