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• The more reputable quick counts showed Widodo ahead with about 52 percent of the vote, while Prabowo Subianto had around 48 percent, with 80 percent of the votes tallied. The quick counts tally a representative sample of votes cast around the country and have accurately forecast the results of Indonesian national elections since 2004. It will be around two weeks before votes are officially tallied and the results announced in the country of 240 million people.
• "At the time being, the quick counts show that Jokowi-Kalla is the winner," Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, told a news conference, referring to his vice-presidential running mate, Jusuf Kalla.
• As supporters of Jokowi claimed victory, Subianto's campaign chief, Mohammad Mahfud, said that three internal quick-count results showed Subianto was ahead. He called on supporters to remain calm as the votes continued to be counted.
• "Thank God, all the data from the quick counts shows that we, Prabowo-Hatta, gained the people's trust," Subianto told a news conference, referring to his running mate, Hatta Rajasa.
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- With the World Cup in faraway Brazil coming at a time of unprecedented sectarian violence and soaring tension in the Middle East, some Arab football fans have been reduced to watching matches in secret or even -- and this is where it gets complicated -- on a TV channel owned by Israel.
• Since the World Cup kicked off three weeks ago, Sunni Muslim extremists have seized territory in Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic state. Lebanon has been hit by a spate of suicide bombings. Israelis and Palestinians were pushed to full conflict after the murders of four teenagers. Egypt's political divide grew wider as hundreds of people charged with supporting the ousted Muslim Brotherhood group were convicted of terrorism-related crimes -- including three journalists for Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera network.
• Many accuse the Doha-based network of editorial bias in favor of the now banned Islamic group in Egypt and of Sunni insurgents fighting Shiite-dominated governments in Syria and Iraq.
• Qatar's media conglomerate owns broadcasting rights to the World Cup in the Middle East, charging viewers from $110 to $320 for a three-month subscription that includes the 64 World Cup matches -- a tournament that should have been a wel

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