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Newsguy
11-06-2005, 09:49 AM
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051106/ap_on_re_eu/azerbaijan_s_vote"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051106/capt.xmj10511061101.azerbaijan_election_xmj105.jpg ?x=130&amp;y=92&amp;sig=agh8N2pTGIK4bQAug2SYxA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="An Azeri woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Baku, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005. Foreign observers, invisible ink and transparent ballot boxes were all in place as the parliamentary vote got under way Sunday in Azerbaijan, an oil-rich country that the international community hopes will finally shake its reputation for rigged elections and repression of opposition parties. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)" border="0" /></a>AP - Azerbaijan's president pledged that Sunday's parliamentary elections would be followed by further democratic reform of the oil-rich former Soviet republic, but his political opponents alleged there already had been violations in the voting.</p><br clear=all>

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