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France 2 Humiliates French Government
http://lastofthefamous.blogspot.com/2005/01/france-2-humiliates-french-government.html

In an effort to prevent attacks, private cars will not be allowed on the roads for three days before the ballot, commission officials said. They also said any citizens in two turbulent areas who felt too intimidated to register to vote could sign up and vote on election day. They promised that preliminary results would be available within a day after the voting.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=2&u=/washpost/20050116/ts_washpost/a11803_2005jan15

Prague's mayor has had the chance to see for himself whether the many accounts of city taxi drivers ripping off unsuspecting tourists are true.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4175143.stm

But he said it was "human nature" that torture might be employed in certain exceptional cases when time was very limited.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4175713.stm

Atheist loses Bush prayer fight
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4176725.stm

So goes the election campaign unfolding across Iraq, a country simultaneously set to embark on an American-backed political experiment while writhing under a guerrilla insurgency dead set on disrupting the experiment...Each party has a list of candidates and will be given seats in proportion to the number of votes it receives. At this rudimentary stage of democracy, some say, it is remarkable enough that the Iraqis are voting at all.
http://nytimes.com/2005/01/16/international/middleeast/16election.html?hp&ex=1105851600&en=f3173f5d3f0260d9&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Christian Iraqis in the United States claim they are being effectively shut out of the planned Jan. 30 election for a new government in Baghdad at a time when their community faces murderous violence and discrimination back home.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050114-113748-4084r.htm