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The bad blood between Hizballah and the government has continued in the runup to the 2009 election. A 2008 dispute over accusations that Hizballah was using its telecommunications systems for terrorist purposes led to deadly brawls and riots in the street. And while both groups seem poised to continue in...
It's perhaps an inevitable consequence of European parliamentary elections that voters in country after country across the continent so often choose to thump national politicians over distinctly domestic issues. As the results of Thursday's Europe-wide poll trickled in late Sunday, nowhere was that more evident than Britain...
You have to go back close to 100 years to find a worse result for Labour in a national poll. In a couple of southern English regions, the party fell to fifth behind the Greens; Labour came second to the Conservatives in Wales, where it has won in election after...
While there were many messages from the election that took place between June 4 and 7 - including the record low turnout and the rise of the fringe vote - the main one appeared to be a ringing rejection of the centre-left. Across the E.U.'s 27 member states, the story...
The most spectacular result was in the U.K., where beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party scraped a mere 15.7% of the national vote. It limped into third place behind the Conservative Party, with 28.5%, and the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) - campaigning to pull Britain out of the E.U...