Pakistan's Election Commission says the presidential election will take place on October 6, despite legal challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid. The decision prompted threats of resignation by opposition politicians, and even an expression of concern from the visiting head the British Commonwealth.

A conference of the Other Russia opposition movement voted for newly confirmed Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov as its presidential candidate, before the group's presidium overturned the result.

The Turkish Parliament has held a second round of presidential voting, and leading candidate Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul failed to obtain the two-thirds majority needed for victory.

Turkey's foreign minister has hinted he may make another presidential bid, following his party's victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections. Abdullah Gul said Wednesday in Ankara that he can not ignore what he said is popular support for his candidacy.

Election officials in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh say the former head of the region's security service has been elected president.

UPA is confident of victory in the presidential elections of India.

The presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic in Azerbaijan, can be considered valid now that 25% of those eligible to vote have done so, the region's central election commission said Thursday.

There are five candidates officially running for president of Nagorno-Karabakh. Most observers say only one has any real chance of winning.

Breaking news from New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party on Tuesday and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race, reports AP

Turkey's president has called for a referendum on whether the next president should be elected by the people instead of by Parliament. Ahmet Necdet Sezer called for the referendum after parliament voted for a second time to change the constitution to allow popular election of the president.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson became the latest Democrat to officially enter the crowded 2008 presidential race Monday. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has the latest on the campaign from Washington.

The country home of Nigeria's vice president-elect, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was dynamited by unidentified militants early Wednesday in the village of Otu Eke in the oil rich Bayelsa state of the Niger Delta.