Thousands of supporters of President Bashar al-Assad have staged demonstrations in support of the president, who announced earlier on Monday that he will run in the country's controversial presidential elections.
A leading Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday said that he will decide whether to take part in a possible runoff election after the final results are announced.
The polling for third phase of India's general elections in Indian- controlled Kashmir Thursday recorded a meagre 28 percent polling, officials said.
The Syrian parliament announced on Wednesday the name of the first candidate who registered for the presidential elections, the official SANA news agency reported.
Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday canceled his campaign rally in a town of Indian-controlled Kashmir, following the killing of three persons including a rural body head and village headman by militants.
Top United Nations officials have cautioned that Syria's newly announced presidential elections have a risk of undermining efforts to achieve a political solution to the country's three-year-old conflict, a UN spokesman said here on Monday.
The second phase of India's mammoth nine-phase general elections kicked off Wednesday, with polling beginning in six constituencies across four northeastern states.
Indonesia, due to hold parliamentary election on Wednesday, has deployed hundreds thousands of police and tens thousands of troops to guard against possible public disorder in the country's upcoming elections.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that he prefers to face another round of elections rather than release Israeli Arab prisoners amid Kerry's outline.
Indonesian military commander General Moeldoko reaffirmed the military's non-siding stance in the upcoming elections, saying that such a stance is essential to assure peace and fairness during conduction of the democracy process in the country.
Indian police Wednesday reviewed security arrangements for candidates contesting the upcoming general elections and polling stations in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
Germany called for a democratic solution to the crisis in Ukraine and transparent elections at the end of the transition process in the country, German government's spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement Monday.
Bangladesh ruling Awami League suffered a blow in the first phase of local elections on Wednesday.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday warned against any attempts to destabilize the military.
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has urged the government to stop extra-judicial killing and abduction immediately.
Voting in Thailand's tense general elections ended at 3 p.m. Sunday and ballot counting has begun.
Egypt will hold the presidential elections before the parliamentary polls, interim President Adli Mansour said in a televised speech on Sunday.
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