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Iran´s incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has secured a second four-year term with a landslide victory.
Iran´s supreme leader called for national unity on Sunday,urging both sides in a election dispute not to stoke the emotions of the young.
Afghanistan´s election commission announced that President Hamid Karzai will be awarded a second term.
Afghanistan´s presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah announced he will not participate in runoff election because his demands for measures to prevent fraud were rejected.
The Japanese Diet has formally elected the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan as the country´s next prime minister. The selection of Hatoyama ends more than 50 years of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan´s main opposition, the Democratic Party of Japan, has crushed the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party with an historic landslide victory.
After a drawn-out night of bickering in Brussels, EU leaders have finally opted for Belgian Premier Herman Van Rompuy to become the 27-nation bloc´s first full-time president.
Top European Union officials have marked the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty in the Portuguese capital.