India is under pressure from Washington to sign the accord before the US presidential election in November.
Meanwhile, campaigning for Tuesday's US presidential election - suspended earlier in the week - has fully resumed.
Some EU officials privately blamed the looming US presidential election for the host nation's failure to give ground.
The Afghan leader is due to see President Obama on Friday, their first meeting since the US presidential election.
It is the first big unexpected moment of the US presidential election campaign.
Mitt Romney has secured his place as the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November's US presidential election, following a primary in Texas.
As the dispute over the US presidential election drags on, a much bigger debate is generating heat at the Hague climate conference.
Mr McCain made his name as an anti-corruption campaigner when he ran from the Republican nomination in the 2000 US presidential election.
The SNP have accused the government of trying to "bury" the by-election by holding it two days after the US presidential election.
On November 6th, in the midst of the US presidential election, Chinese Internet users flocked to Weibo to follow the news.
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As we saw a few weeks ago, the race for the 2012 US presidential election had a clear and undisputed winner: data.
Steven Spielberg has said that his Abraham Lincoln biopic will be released after the 2012 US presidential election to avoid it being "political fodder".
That's 300 million negative votes -- more than twice as many than the total number of ballots cast in the 2012 US presidential election.
It seems like Microsoft can join Rick Perry in the club of people who are unsure about the date of the US Presidential election.
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It is starting to have the same haunting effect as George Bush senior's famous cry of "read my lips, no new taxes", ahead of the 1988 US presidential election.
Mr Taylor, nicknamed "the Grizz" for his bear-like no-nonsense style, made an unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in the 1996 US presidential election, campaigning on a pro-business ticket.
He also took over the election graphics role from Peter Snow when he retired after 26 years of operating the famous Swingometer and co-presented the 2008 US presidential election.
Intrade, the exchange that takes bets on things like who will win the US presidential election and what films will win an Academy Award, has always been a fun scene.
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Her sister, Deirdre Manchanda, said she wanted to know whether British troops had been moved around Iraq to please the White House in the run-up to the 2004 US presidential election.
It might be quite awkward for a President-elect Mitt Romney to turn around after November's US presidential election and tell his Nato allies that they are staying in Afghanistan a bit longer after all.
It was far removed from the big news stories we kept returning to - the future of the Eurozone, the US presidential election and the alarming state of the global economy - but it packed an enormous emotional punch.
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With Gen Petraeus taking over at Centcom, some Nato partners wobbling about keeping troops in Afghanistan and the US presidential election like to produce a new focus on the conflict there, one thing we can expect is for a clearer command structure to be established in 2009 with the Americans more obviously in charge.
What are the chances that two major storms land exactly on the anniversaries of two prior epic storms, and disrupt US politics in a presidential election year?
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The spiralling cost of the fuel has also threatened to hit industry and has led to growing political pressure, especially in the US ahead of the Presidential election.
Here in the United States, the presidential election cycle gives us the opportunity to publicly discuss the characteristics of good leaders.
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With the November presidential election getting closer, US officials are relieved to think the threat of a financial meltdown in Europe has been deferred.
The 2012 presidential election now is behind us.
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