Nkandla, South Africa - The trademark Umshini Wam (bring me my machine gun) song of South Africa's presidential frontrunner Jacob Zuma rang out across the hills of his rural Nkandla village in KwaZulu-Natal Monday as his family celebrated the end of his eight- year tussle with the law.
Mumbai, Apr 6: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani has promised that his government would give top priority to national security, if voted to power.
Addressing a joint rally with Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray at Shivaji Park in Central Mumbai last night, Advani said that identity cards would be mandatory for all citizens of the country in view of the continuous illegal immigration from Bangladesh.
Chisinau - Exit polls showed Moldova's ruling Communist party was well ahead after voting stations closed in elections for a national parliament held Sunday.
The party was on track to capture 45.5 per cent of the popular vote, some 3 - 5 per cent more than pre-election polls had predicted, according to a poll conducted by the IMAS survey company with European Union and US support.
Skopje - The ruling nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party's candidate Georgi Ivanov was leading his rival from the opposition Social Democratic Union, Ljubomir Frckoski, by a large margin in the Sunday's presidential election run-off, the state election commission said.
According to preliminary figures, Ivanov had 200,000 votes to Frckoski's 102,000, accoring to the commission. The figures were in line with pre-election surveys, which predicted Ivanov' would win two votes for every one to Frckoski.
Prague - Czech rival party leaders agreed Sunday on a new caretaker premier, Czech Statistics Office chief Jan Fischer, whose interim government would complete the country's presidency of the European Union, local reports said, citing party leaders.
The Czech Republic holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency until June 30.
Fischer, 58, would be a newcomer to the world of top-level politics, following a statistics career mostly in public sector and academia.
Nkandla, South Africa - The trademark Umshini Wam (bring me my machine gun) song of South Africa's presidential frontrunner Jacob Zuma rang out across the hills of his rural Nkandla village in KwaZulu-Natal Monday as his family celebrated the end of his eight- year tussle with the law.
Mumbai, Apr 6: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani has promised that his government would give top priority to national security, if voted to power.
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Chisinau - Exit polls showed Moldova's ruling Communist party was well ahead after voting stations closed in elections for a national parliament held Sunday.
Skopje - The ruling nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party's candidate Georgi Ivanov was leading his rival from the opposition Social Democratic Union, Ljubomir Frckoski, by a large margin in the Sunday's presidential election run-off, the state election commission said.
Prague - Czech rival party leaders agreed Sunday on a new caretaker premier, Czech Statistics Office chief Jan Fischer, whose interim government would complete the country's presidency of the European Union, local reports said, citing party leaders.
