Key elections ahead around the world

[Thom Little]

Iraqis are getting a lesson in the messiness of multiparty politics as they head into the new year trying to put together a broad-based government and take the steam from insurgents.

Politics are also on the agenda in Latin America, where several presidential elections will give populist candidates a chance to extend the recent string of victories by the left.

And elections in both Israel and the Palestinian territories could determine whether peace efforts get going again, or remain stalled.

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International efforts continue to try to rein in the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, but atomic-armed rivals India and Pakistan are finding new ways to work together after South Asia's devastating earthquake. Aid groups fear the winter will be devastating for quake survivors.

The Associated Press asked some of its correspondents around the world to assess the prospects for 2006. Here are their reports:


(click the link for individual analyses of different parts of the world)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-01-world-elections_x.htm

[ktlyon]

1. sounds like most of the world is trying to cooperate with each other

while here we still think we can get our way by intimidation.
This must really piss George off, just when he becomes a war president peace breaks out.