Incumbent President Danilo Turk was leading the polls ahead of the balloting, followed by Borut Pahor and Milan Zver.

Amnesty International said blogger Sattar Beheshti had complained of being threatened the day before his arrest.

The rare case against a senior official is meant to show Jordan's seriousness in efforts to tackle graft and corruption.

Roadside bombs are by far the deadliest weapon deployed by Taliban insurgents in the war against NATO and Karzai government.

Fighting flared again on the Turkish border as Syrian troops and rebel fighters battled for the key northeastern frontier zone of Ras al-Ain.

The 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck around 60 km (37 miles) northwest of Mandalay, the U.S. Geological Survey said.