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• Ousted premier seeks return to power in Cayman Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 9:46 AM ET

  KINGSTON, Jamaica-- A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges and was ousted from leadership last year went into Wednesday's general elections with an outside chance of returning to power in the British Overseas Territory.

• UPDATE 3-Sharif poised to form strong government after Pakistan poll Sunday, 12 May 2013 | 4:40 AM ET

  *Former cricket star Imran Khan's party put up strong fight. ISLAMABAD, May 12- Toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled, Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and looks set to form a stable government capable of implementing reforms needed to rescue the fragile economy.

• UPDATE 2-Cyprus parliament set to agree do-or-die bailout Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013 | 10:00 AM ET

  *Cyprus government likely to clinch bailout vote. NICOSIA, April 30- Cyprus's lawmakers were set agree a bailout on Tuesday which will force it to wind down its second-largest bank and impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors at another, conditions that have intensified calls from islanders to exit the euro.

• UPDATE 2-Cyprus parliament set to agree do-or-die bailout Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013 | 10:00 AM ET

  *Cyprus government likely to clinch bailout vote. NICOSIA, April 30- Cyprus's lawmakers were set agree a bailout on Tuesday which will force it to wind down its second-largest bank and impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors at another, conditions that have intensified calls from islanders to exit the euro.

• ANALYSIS-Khamenei mobilises loyalists to swing Iran's election Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013 | 8:42 AM ET

  *Close advisers to Iran's leader contest sensitive election. DUBAI, March 19- Iran's supreme leader may have helped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win two presidential elections, but he is now bent on stopping his turbulent protege from levering his own man into the job.

• COLUMN-Australia mining tax working, despite teeth-gnashing: Clyde Russell Monday, 11 Feb 2013 | 11:37 PM ET

  --Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 12- The increasingly strident calls by some Australian politicians to either tighten or scrap the country's controversial mining profits tax ignore that the measure is working as it is supposed to.

• Australian opposition leader warns of second election Thursday, 31 Jan 2013 | 2:01 AM ET

  CANBERRA, Jan 31- Australia faces a possible fourth straight year of political instability after opposition leader Tony Abbott, on track to win power in a September election, threatened a second poll if a hostile upper house rejects his plan to scrap a tax on carbon.

• UPDATE 2-Australian PM surprises with Sept election call Wednesday, 30 Jan 2013 | 12:56 AM ET

  CANBERRA, Jan 30- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard set national elections for Sept. 14, stunning voters on Wednesday with eight months notice of the vote in a bold move designed to end political uncertainty surrounding her struggling minority government.

• UPDATE 1-Tribal movement wins Jordan vote, Islamists to protest Thursday, 24 Jan 2013 | 9:20 AM ET

  AMMAN, Jan 24- Pro-government candidates strengthened their hold on Jordan's parliament after an election on Wednesday boycotted by the Muslim Brotherhood-led opposition, which said the ballot was biased against it.

• UPDATE 1-Cayman Islands' ruling party fails to reach consensus to oust premier Monday, 17 Dec 2012 | 9:52 PM ET

  GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Dec 17- Members of the Cayman Islands' ruling party failed to reach a consensus on Monday to oust Premier McKeeva Bush, who was arrested last week on suspicion of corruption, a party official said.

• Cayman Islands' ruling party considers ousting embattled premier Monday, 17 Dec 2012 | 11:58 AM ET

  GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Dec 17- Members of the Cayman Islands' ruling party met on Monday to debate whether to oust Premier McKeeva Bush, who was arrested last week on suspicion of corruption, party members said.