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Yaamin Wins Maldives Run-Off Poll

A surprise in the Maldives Saturday as voters elected the brother of the nation's former strongman ruler as president. Yaamin Abdul Gayoom defeated the favored Mohamed Nasheed, getting more than 51 percent of the vote with only four of 475 ballot boxes still uncounted. Last Saturday, in the first round of presidential voting, Nasheed received 47 percent of the vote, falling short of the majority needed to win outright. Gayoom is the brother of former autocrat Maumoon Abdul...


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