1.   Police fired on opposition supporters and beat them with batons as clashes erupted during parliamentary runoff elections Tuesday.

2.   Parliamentary runoff elections apparently failed in breakaway Chechnya because of low voter turnout, initial results indicated on Sunday.

3.   Parliamentary runoff elections apparently failed in breakaway Chechnya because of low voter turnout, according to early results Sunday.

4.   He also said he would cancel upcoming parliamentary runoff elections.

5.   In an effort to present a single anti-government candidate in undecided districts, the two leading opposition parties on Wednesday signed an agreement to cooperate in parliamentary runoff balloting.

6.   Lukashenko considers the parliamentary runoffs unnecessary and is pushing his own referendum in an attempt to expand his already sweeping powers.

7.   Legislators insisted on the later date to coincide with a parliamentary runoff, making a higher turnout likely, and added referendum questions that could effectively eliminate the presidency.

8.   Muslim militants took up arms after the military-backed government canceled parliamentary runoff elections in which the Salvation Front was favored to win over discontent with high unemployment.

9.   On Sunday, presidential elections will be held in Chad, local elections are held in Romania, parliamentary runoff elections are held in Albania.

10.   Pro-government candidates swept Belarusian parliamentary runoff elections, according to results Monday, in a vote boycotted by opposition groups and called unfair by international observers.