Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2 presidential election , which Obrador lost by less than a percentage point to conservative Felipe Calderon, instead authorizing a partial recount of returns at 11,839 [...]

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US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saturday called on Hezbollah to immediately stop launching rockets into civilian areas within Israel, saying their actions constitute "war crimes." The rights watchdog said Hezbollah's assertions that it is targeting military bases within Israel are offset by the fact that most attacks have been aimed at schools, hospitals [...]

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The Minsk Central Court in Belarus Friday sentenced four independent election monitors for their affiliation with an "unregistered" organization which infringed on citizens' rights. The four were members of the Partnership monitoring group, which had received monetary assistance from the US-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs . The group had been planning to observe [...]

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