Elections
South Africa: Parties split over Zuma corruption claims report
March 21, 2014ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe took issue with the timing of the report's release, noting that it had "provided some ammunition to many of these parties that have nothing to offer to the electorate."
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Left candidate wins in El Salvador elections
March 12, 2014The candidate of the left wing FMLN, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, appears to have won the Mar. 9 presidential runoff elections.
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U.S. Senate race in Georgia reaches a new low
February 24, 2014The campaign is raffling off an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle as a way to build a list of conservative supporters.
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Labor announces plan to unseat 5 GOP governors
February 20, 2014The governors targeted for defeat are Florida's Rick Scott, Michigan's Rick Snyder, Ohio's John Kasich, Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett and Wisconsin's Scott Walker.
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Labor launches campaign to raise wages across America
February 18, 2014We are declaring here and now that the labor movement is going to focus like a laser beam on raising wages for all American workers, union and non-union," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters today.
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