The Democratic candidate Barack Obama won the presidential election - according to preliminary election results. The current U.S. leader received 303 electoral votes, whilst Republican Mitt Romney is supported by 203 electors.
These elections were the 57th in a row in the U.S. history. In addition to the president, today in the U.S. there were another 14 thousand different levels of elections, including the election of the House of Representatives and the election of state governors.
Until recently, the politicians found it difficult to answer who will win, and opinion polls showed that both candidates are on a par. However, the vote showed that America still favors Democrats.
Barack Obama won in Delaware (59% vs 40%), Florida (50% vs. 49%), DC (92% vs. 7%), Rhode Island (63% vs. 35%), Illinois (57% vs. 41%), New Jersey (59% vs 40%), Ohio (50% vs. 49%), Vermont (67% vs 31%), Colorado (51% versus 47%) and others.
Mitt Romney was supported in North Carolina (51% vs 48%), Kentucky (60% vs. 38%), Tennessee (60% vs. 39%), Louisiana (60% vs. 38%), and Texas (59% vs 40%). Note that in the western states the vote is still going on, but it will not have a significant impact on the results of the election. -02D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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