VENEZUELA: Chavez announces campaign for unprecedented third term

This post, and those below it, are from 2006, and were the first "test" of the blog.

Norway: Support for EU membership growing, poll says 

 Estonia: Christian Democratic Party calls for ban on Saturday gay pride parade

Congo: Pres. Kabila leads Vice President in presidential election vote count 

Australia: Law requiring illegals to be held in offshore camps passed legislative hurdle 

Azerbaijan: Opposition newspaper editor imprisoned for libeling ruling party lawmaker

Japan: Frontrunner in PM race criticized for alleged visit to controversial war shrine 

Australia: Calls within ruling Liberal party to allow 'conscience' vote on stem cell research 

Belarus: European watchdog group decries jail sentences of four election observers

Scotland: Former Scottish Socialist Party leader wins defamation suit against tabloid that alleged sexual 
improprieties 

Sierra Leone: President sets 2007 election date 

Senegal: Rap artists fear backlash for speaking out politically with music 

U.S.: Bush extends year-long ban on Burma imports; cites military regime's failure to move towards democracy

Turkey: Moderate armed forces head replaced by "hardliner" expected to press U.S. to stop 
Kurd incursions from Northern Iraq 

Zimbabwe: Rival opposition leaders vow unity to unseat ruling party

Somalia: Four more ministers resign from cabinet, citing PM's failure to bring stability to nation 

Ukraine: Political archrivals seek "unity pact"

Latvia: Protests lodged after Latvian diplomat filmed having sex with male in Belarus, take shown on state-run TV  

Congo: Pres. candidate rejects election results; say "irregularities" in historic poll; results not 
known for two weeks; election hailed by African neighbors, Kofi Annan 

 Cuba: Castro relinquishes power while undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding