en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/world/minister/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/world/call_for_israeli_pm_to_stand_dow/ Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to take a leave of absence or resign as he battles allegations of corruption. Mr Barak said he would take his Labor Party out of Mr Olmert's governing coalition if he did not news world 2008-05-28 08:17:26 http://www.newsique.com/world/call_for_israeli_pm_to_stand_dow/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7423405.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/call_for_israeli_pm_to_stand_dow/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/defense_minister_barak_says_olme/ Israel's defense minister issued a tough ultimatum to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday, saying he would use his considerable power to topple the coalition government if the Israeli leader does not step aside to face corruption allegations. The c news world 2008-05-28 08:12:33 http://www.newsique.com/world/defense_minister_barak_says_olme/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/299514811/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/defense_minister_barak_says_olme/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_announces_cabinet_line-up/ Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is proposing the names of ministers in his new government, which will work with President Dmitry Medvedev. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will be retaining his post and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also keeps his news world 2008-05-12 08:16:20 http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_announces_cabinet_line-up/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7395911.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_announces_cabinet_line-up/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/new_generation_stands_by_in_cuba/ Cuba's foreign minister, Felipe Perez Roque, 42, belongs to this generation. He was the first Cuban born after the revolution to be named to Fidel's cabinet, and for the past 19 months, he has served under Raul in the interim government created when Fidel news world 2008-02-21 08:15:26 http://www.newsique.com/world/new_generation_stands_by_in_cuba/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23262893/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/new_generation_stands_by_in_cuba/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/italian_pm_to_risk_confidence_vo/ The future of Italy's prime minister was in doubt Thursday after he decided to risk a confidence vote in the Senate in a final bid to save his government. Romano Prodi, in office for 20 months, has only a slim chance of surviving the vote, and observers h news world 2008-01-24 08:13:58 http://www.newsique.com/world/italian_pm_to_risk_confidence_vo/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/24/italy.prodi/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/italian_pm_to_risk_confidence_vo/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_backs_medvedev_as_successo/ President Vladimir Putin expressed support Monday for First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as his successor, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. There have been months of intense speculation on whom Putin would support to run in the March 2 preside news world 2007-12-10 08:12:26 http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_backs_medvedev_as_successo/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/10/medvedev.russia.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Important [10] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/putin_backs_medvedev_as_successo/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/israel_mulls_citizenship_changes/ Israel's interior minister has called for reforming the law that grants Jews around the world Israeli citizenship. Meir Sheetrit said citizenship should be earned by a strong commitment to Israel and not granted automatically. He was addressing the news world 2007-10-31 08:16:26 http://www.newsique.com/world/israel_mulls_citizenship_changes/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7070868.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/israel_mulls_citizenship_changes/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/canadian_pm_vows_to_defend_arcti/ Canada's prime minister has begun a three-day trip to the Arctic in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines. Although Stephen Harper's visit has been planned f news world 2007-08-09 08:14:59 http://www.newsique.com/world/canadian_pm_vows_to_defend_arcti/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/09/canada.arctic.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [9] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/canadian_pm_vows_to_defend_arcti/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/minister_us_is_uks_no_1_ally/ New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United States was still Britain's number one ally. "It is the single most important bilateral rela news world 2007-07-15 11:14:36 http://www.newsique.com/world/minister_us_is_uks_no_1_ally/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/15/uk.miliband.reut/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/minister_us_is_uks_no_1_ally/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/japan_minister_quits_over_gaffe/ Japan's Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma has resigned amid a furore over comments he made about the US atom bomb attacks on Japan during World War II. His apology, and a public rebuke from PM Shinzo Abe, failed to quell anger over his remarks that the bomb news world 2007-07-03 08:09:35 http://www.newsique.com/world/japan_minister_quits_over_gaffe/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/6263812.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/japan_minister_quits_over_gaffe/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/brown_begins_uk_cabinet_reshuffl/ Newly installed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has started appointing members of his cabinet in a re-shuffle expected to be the biggest shake-up in government since the Labour Party came to power in 1997. Alistair Darling, a longterm political all news world 2007-06-28 08:14:32 http://www.newsique.com/world/brown_begins_uk_cabinet_reshuffl/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/28/britain.brown/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/brown_begins_uk_cabinet_reshuffl/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/japanese_agriculture_minister_co/ Japan's agricultural minister died Monday after reportedly hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in parliament over a political scandal, officials said. The minister was found in his apartment Monday unconscious and declared dead news world 2007-05-28 09:12:15 http://www.newsique.com/world/japanese_agriculture_minister_co/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275833,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/japanese_agriculture_minister_co/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/blair_makes_surprise_iraq_visit/ Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Mr Blair is due to have talks with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. "He's in Baghdad against a backdrop of the continuing major security opera news world 2007-05-19 04:17:40 http://www.newsique.com/world/blair_makes_surprise_iraq_visit/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/6672097.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/blair_makes_surprise_iraq_visit/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/gordon_brown_officially_launches/ Treasury chief Gordon Brown on Friday launched his campaign to become Britain's next prime minister and win back voters disenchanted after a decade of Labour Party rule. Brown said his government would honor Britain's commitments in Iraq but acknowledg news world 2007-05-11 08:02:15 http://www.newsique.com/world/gordon_brown_officially_launches/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271452,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/gordon_brown_officially_launches/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/australian_pm_ban_aids_immigrant/ Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that people with the AIDS virus should not be allowed to migrate to Australia, and that the government was investigating whether it could tighten existing restrictions. The comments triggered anger among AIDS work news world 2007-04-13 08:14:07 http://www.newsique.com/world/australian_pm_ban_aids_immigrant/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/13/aidsaustralia.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Important [16] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/australian_pm_ban_aids_immigrant/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/canadian_anti-terrorism_act_sect/ Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an 11th-hour compromise Monday to salvage two controversial weapons in the government's anti-terrorism arsenal. And his justice minister, Rob Nicholson, said he's open to other possible compromises. But the Liberal news world 2007-02-27 00:41:56 http://www.newsique.com/world/canadian_anti-terrorism_act_sect/ Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070226.wantiterr0226/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070226.wantiterr0226 http://www.newsique.com/sources/globe_and_mail/ 96 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/canadian_anti-terrorism_act_sect/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/prodi_keeps_job_as_italy_pm/ Italy's president asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister on Saturday, but he now faces a confidence vote in parliament to prove he has enough support to govern. Prodi resigned on Wednesday after he was defeated on foreign policy in the upper h news world 2007-02-24 14:25:33 http://www.newsique.com/world/prodi_keeps_job_as_italy_pm/ Reuters http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-24T164811Z_01_L21529654_RTRUKOC_0_US-ITALY.xml&src=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/reuters/ 93 Interesting [6] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/prodi_keeps_job_as_italy_pm/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/female_pakistani_minister_shot_d/ A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil. Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was news world 2007-02-21 00:11:58 http://www.newsique.com/world/female_pakistani_minister_shot_d/ Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1414137.ece http://www.newsique.com/sources/times_online/ 93 Shocking [17] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/female_pakistani_minister_shot_d/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/bright_idea_australia_pulls_plug/ Australia has announced plans to ban traditional light bulbs in a move Prime Minister John Howard called a practical step toward slowing climate change. Claiming a world first for a national government, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said incand news world 2007-02-20 12:57:43 http://www.newsique.com/world/bright_idea_australia_pulls_plug/ Physorg http://www.physorg.com/news91171489.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/physorg/ 91 Amazing [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/bright_idea_australia_pulls_plug/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/italy_sounds_alarm_over_cocaine_/ Italy is becoming a nation of cocaine users, according to a senior government minister. news world 2007-02-03 12:01:45 http://www.newsique.com/world/italy_sounds_alarm_over_cocaine_/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/hl_nm/italy_cocaine_dc http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/italy_sounds_alarm_over_cocaine_/#comments