41.   Exit poll results were announced on RAI state TV an hour after the voting stations closed, although many people were still waiting on line to vote.

42.   Exit pollsters at several voting stations said the two rival parties were neck-and-neck by mid-afternoon.

43.   Four Labor Party poll watchers were stabbed, and one subsequently died, in a voting station in southwest Kingston, said deputy Superintendent Jonathan Morrison.

44.   Hamas leader Sheik Mahfoud Nahnah alleged widespread irregularities, particularly at moving voting stations used mainly to serve the scattered population of this mostly desert nation.

45.   Hamas leader Sheik Mahfoud Nahnah alleged widespread irregularities, particularly at mobile voting stations used mainly to serve the scattered population of this mostly desert nation.

46.   He rode to the voting station in his bulletproof Mercedes.

47.   Heeding warnings from rebels who have killed and kidnapped hundreds of candidates in recent months, many Colombians stayed away from voting stations rather than face possible retribution.

48.   In at least one voting station, she said there were more ballots counted than voters registered, indicating ballot-stuffing.

49.   In at least one voting station, there were more ballots counted than voters registered, indicating ballot-stuffing, she alleged.

50.   In Diyarbakir, the main city in the southeast, security forces searched people entering voting stations.