International observers noted numerous serious irregularities in presidential and legislative election proceedings.

International observers agreed the election was not free or fair.

Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

International and non-governmental observers concluded that opposition parties would have been able to participate had they chosen to do so.

International observers judged the 2001 elections to be acceptable, but the Union for Victory Coalition, the second-largest vote recipient, disputed the results and boycotted parliament until 31 January 2002.

International and local observers reported the 2002 elections to be generally more fair and less violent than those of both 1992 and 1997.

International observers regarded the elections as free and fair, noting the lack of irregularities that had plagued the 1997 elections.

International observers, including the Carter Center, judged the election to be free and fair.

In addition, the UN observer organizations International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have entered into " official relations " with WHO and are invited as observers.

Two Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack on the road to Hebron On March 27, 2001, 16 days after settlers had celebrated Purim with a march through the city in which some settler children were dressed up as Baruch Goldstein, a Palestinian sniper targeted and killed the Jewish baby Shalhevet Pass.

International observers including the United Nations, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), and others called the election free, fair, and transparent.

Participants included MEPs, Amnesty International observers and random individuals who travelled from abroad to support LGBT Latvians and their friends and families.

Under the terms of Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, children over the age of fifteen who have volunteered can be used as spotters, observers, and message-carriers ( see above International humanitarian law ).

Women's boxing was not featured at the 2008 Olympics ; however, on 14 August 2009, it was announced that the International Olympic Committee ’ s Executive Board ( EB ) had approved the inclusion of women ’ s boxing for the Games in London in the 2012 Olympics, contrary to the expectations of some observers.

Formally known as the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie ( OIF ) or the International Organization of the Francophonie, the organization comprises 56 member states and governments, 3 associate members, and 19 observers.

Most observers guess the population of Nogales, Sonora, at roughly 300, 000. International commerce is a big part of Nogales ’ economy.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

A joint statement by the British Foreign Office and Department for International Development cited " real concerns " over irregularities, while international observers refused to declare the election free and fair.

International observers qualified the situation as the " collapse of reunification talks ", " last chance for Cyprus reunification lost ", and the " failure of UN Cyprus campaign for reunification ".

On March 31, 1994, representatives of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Israeli government signed an agreement requesting Italy, Denmark and Norway to provide observers to form a Temporary International Presence in the City of Hebron ( TIPH ).

During de la Madrid's presidency, he introduced liberal economic reforms that encouraged foreign investment, and widespread privatisations of outdated state-run industries and reduction of tariffs, a process that continued under his successors, which immediately caught the attention of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and other international observers.

Human Rights Groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30, 000 disappeared, Amnesty International estimates 20, 000 while other observers think 12, 000 is a more accurate figure.

Human Rights Groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30, 000 disappeared, Amnesty International estimates 20, 000 while other observers think 12, 000 is a more accurate figure.

In the August race at Michigan International Speedway, Earnhardt led laps late in the race and nearly pulled off his first win on a non-restrictor plate track since 1996.

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

North American highway Semi-trailer | freight rig pulled by an International Tractor unit | tractor.

" After he failed military training in his junior year, his father pulled him out of school and put him to work at the International Shoe Company factory.

International Artists pulled together the various studio recordings from 1968 and with the assistance of drummer Danny Thomas added some horn arrangements, which became the Bull Of The Woods album, released c. March 1969.

In addition, he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series The Loner ( which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966 ; Bridges pulled out in disagreement over the violent content of the show ), and in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport ( 1970 / 71 ) and a Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester ( 1975 – 76 ).

It was selling well, but in early 1978 Playboy International pulled the plug on Playboy Records and Blue Ash was once again without a label.

American International Pictures pulled out of the production, halting filming.

By that time, a half-built shell of a stadium stood at the Tallaght site ; Mulden International Ltd, recruited by Colwell to complete the project, had pulled out of building the stadium.

Hantuchová began the year at the Brisbane International, where she reached her first final of the year, defeating Dominika Cibulková and Vania King, before receiving a walkover in the quarterfinals when Serena Williams pulled out of the event with an ankle sprain.

; September 21: Doctor Negrín, head of the Republican government, in a speech to the League of Nations, announces that the International Brigades will be pulled from the combat zones.

** New Orleans ( Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ) ( Destination abruptly pulled in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the PHX-MSY route has never resumed when the airline became U. S. Airways.

The International Labor Organization has found that girls involved in other forms of child labour-such as domestic service or street vending-are at the highest risk of being pulled into commercial child sex trafficking.

In 2003, RAI pulled its content from TLN and petitioned the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to allow it to broadcast RAI International in Canada.

# International common strike in case of the impunity of the hijackers or in case of not letting the crew of the hijacked plane out within 48 hours ;

During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

This terror and the crimes carried out during MLC's war against Bozizé's rebels between October 2002 and March 2003 is now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, which says it has identified 600 rape victims and the real numbers are expected to be higher.

Testing procedures for rescue carabiners are set out in ASTM International standard F 1956 Standard Specification of Rescue Carabiners.

In this case the specific name marinus changes to marina in order to conform with the rules of gender agreement as set out by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature changing the binomial name from Bufo marinus to Rhinella marina ; the binomial Rhinella marinus was subsequently introduced as a synonym through misspelling by Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan ( 2008 ).

Organized cheerleading competitions began to pop up with the first ranking of the " Top Ten College Cheerleading Squads " and " Cheerleader All America " awards given out by the International Cheerleading Foundation in 1967.

Graham Allison, the director of Harvard University ’ s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, points out, “ The Soviet Union could right the nuclear imbalance by deploying new ICBMs on its own soil.

A fact finding mission of 1985 – sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group and the Washington Office on Latin America, and carried out independently of any Nicaraguan government interference or direction-found that the contras with some frequency deliberately targeted Nicaraguan citizens in acts of terroristic violence.

In 2006 Transparency International ranked the Democratic Republic of the Congo 156 out of 163 countries in the Corruption Perception Index, tying Bangladesh, Chad, and Sudan with a 2. 0 rating.

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

During a test session at Riverside International Raceway in August 1966, with Ken Miles driving, the car suddenly went out of control at the end of Riverside's high-speed, 1-mile-long back straight.

* The renovated and expanded ( phase 1 out of two phases of renovation ) La Aurora International Airport lies in the southern part of the city and is the main gateway to the country.

In 2008 Transparency International ranked Georgia 67th in its Corruption Perceptions Index, with a score of 3. 9 points out of 10 possible.

Caricom, which had been backing the peace deal, accused the United States, France, and the International community of failing in Haiti because they allegedly allowed a controversially elected leader to be violently forced out of office.

The International Red Cross reported that Haiti was 155th out of 159 countries in a similar survey of corrupt countries.

At the 2010 International Conference on Afghanistan in London, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he intends to reach out to the Taliban leadership ( including Mullah Omar, Sirajuddin Haqqani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ).

He captained the One Day International team to 99 wins out of 138 matches with one tied match and three no results.

A second conference was held at The Hague in May 1911, and out of it came the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention of 1912.

There were numerous unconfirmed reports of the bird, but many ornithologists believed the species had been wiped out completely, and it was assessed as " extinct " by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1994.

The Uniono di la Amiki di la Linguo Internaciona ( Union of Friends of the International Language ) was established along with an Ido Academy to work out the details of the new language.

In 2007, the Chief Minister of Jersey and the UK government agreed an " International Identity Framework ", setting out the modern relationship between the United Kingdom and Jersey.

Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.

International revenues were $ 45 million out of $ 60 million overall.

Many national libraries cooperate within the National Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ( IFLA ) to discuss their common tasks, define and promote common standards and carry out projects helping them to fulfil their duties.

Anarcho-communism developed out of radical socialist currents after the French revolution but was first formulated as such in the Italian section of the First International.