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Prime Minister Gordon Brown was recorded on Wednesday as he told an aide that a woman he had just sparred with on the campaign trail was "bigoted."

The election will likely be the most closely fought ballot in almost two decades, with opposition Conservatives taking aim at Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Thousands of anti-government protesters headed to the heavily guarded home of Thailand's prime minister on Wednesday in the fourth day of protests aimed at forcing him to call elections.

A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital and a Shiite province in the south, according to a partial tally of election results released Saturday.

Nearly complete poll results showed Viktor F. Yanukovich to be the winner of Ukraine’s presidential election but Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko refused to concede.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a challenge to his leadership Wednesday from within his own Labour Party, months before a national election that disaffected Labour supporters believe he is sure to lose.

Japan's embattled prime minister has decided to dissolve parliament and call general elections for next month, a news reports said Monday, after his party was defeated in a Tokyo municipal poll considered a barometer of voter sentiment.

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's party scored a sweeping victory over rival Shiite Muslim groups in provincial elections as voters rewarded him for security gains and rejected other Shiite parties' overt religious leanings, according to results released today.

The prime minister is credited with a drop in violence in once-lawless parts of Iraq.

A young Sunni man strolling along the Tigris River hesitated when asked whom he had voted for in provincial elections today.