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Derek Llambias and Barry Leach face removal from the board or resignation this week, with Dave King claiming landslide victory in his extraordinary general meeting request for all directors to be changed.

In the northeast — where the Nigerian army supported by forces from Chad, Cameroon and Niger is fighting a Boko Haram insurgency — Buhari will likely claim landslide victory over Jonathan in Borno State, where the Islamist militants first emerged back in 2002. .

The Comoran federal government delayed the holding of an election on Anjouan due to alleged irregularities and intimidation, but Bacar nevertheless printed ballots and held an election in June, claiming a landslide victory of 90 percent.

With her National League for Democracy claiming a landslide in Sunday's parliamentary polls, Suu Kyi for the first time could face the challenge of helping to lead a government still dominated by a powerful and opaque army establishment.

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Many reformist politicians were arrested immediately after the disputed June 12 elections, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed a landslide victory.

But since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed a landslide victory in Iran's disputed election in June, each day there have been flare-ups in the increasingly bitter fight between political and clerical factions.

" The oil price has been inching higher this morning, back over $108 per barrel, after pro-Russian campaigners in East Ukraine claimed a landslide win in an unofficial independence referendum.

The country was saved only by bringing in a new constitution, giving each island its own president and administration—all for 840,000 impoverished citizens.More trouble erupted last year when Anjouan's president, Mohamed Bacar, refused to step down after his five-year term; he held an illegal election and claimed a landslide victory.

The challengers, the Movement for Democratic Change, contend that the party of President Robert G. Mugabe, the 89-year-old former liberation hero who has ruled Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980, rigged the vote in order to claim a landslide victory, winning more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats and a 61 percent majority in the presidential race that kept him in office.

See articleIn Cambodia, the ruling Cambodian People's Party claimed a landslide win in parliamentary elections, handing another five-year term as prime minister to Hun Sen. International observers raised concerns about voter intimidation and the party's use of state resources to campaign.