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BBC News
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Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says.
Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government.
His party won the second..
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SF Gate
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Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
President Jose Ramos-Ho..
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CNN
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Assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest alongside her father in her ancestral home of Garhi-Khuda Baksh after a chaotic funeral procession and scenes of violence in Pakistan on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people in the surr..
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SF Gate
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A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday at a checkpoint near the offices of two prominent lawmakers, including a former prime minister. The attack killed two guards.
The lawmakers, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and Sunni politician Saleh Mutlaq, w..
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MSNBC
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Iraq will take over security from British troops in Basra province within two months, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Tuesday after meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who said 1,000 more British troops would be withdrawn b..
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USA Today
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Iraq's prime minister lashed out at American criticism, saying Wednesday that no one has a right to put timetables on his elected government.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the U.S. presidential campaign for the recent tough words from the Bush..
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USA Today
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Turkey's prime minister, a devout Muslim, has said he has no intention of changing the secular, pro-Western orientation that was laid down by national founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923.
Now Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won a new mandate..
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Times Online
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America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday...
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BBC News
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has ordered a stop to all operations against "people who carry weapons" in the country.
This comes a day after he promised to continue to pursue criminals and outlaws in all provinces.
Last week there was intense fi..
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SF Gate
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Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his militia after a week of battles that claimed about 400 lives.
The peace deal between al-Sadr..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned that the withdrawal of troops from Gaza does not mean Israel's military operation there is over.
Israeli forces pulled out overnight, several days after entering Gaza to try to suppress rocket fire. The ope..
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BBC News
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says his government will do all it can to safeguard democracy in East Timor after attacks on its president and PM.
On his second visit to East Timor in only two months, Mr Rudd said his support was "absolutely rock..
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CNN
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is said to be critically wounded following a suicide attack on a political rally in Rawalpindi, her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, was quoted as saying on CNN affiliate Geo TV. The attack has left at least 14 dead..
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BBC News
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Hamas, the Palestinian militant group in control of the Gaza Strip, says it is holding a key adviser to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
About 30 men seized Omar al-Ghoul at his Gaza home early on Friday, accusing him of collaborating with Isra..
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CNN
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What happens when a country is in the news for all the wrong reasons? Pakistan has dominated headlines this week for violent demonstrations, declarations of a state of emergency, troops on the street and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under house ar..
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MSNBC
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It’s in for more unraveling: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that Britain will halve its remaining force of 5,000 next spring, and another official said there were no guarantees any British troops would remain in Iraq beyond the end of 2008...
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CNN
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British troop numbers in Iraq will be cut by 1,000 by the end of 2007, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday, shortly after arriving in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials. The comments came as Brown, on his first visit to the country since repla..
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BBC News
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UK troops in Basra are to be cut by 1,000 by the end of the year, Gordon Brown has said on his first visit to Iraq since becoming prime minister.
Mr Brown also confirmed Basra province could be handed over to full Iraqi control within the next two mont..
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USA Today
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that Britain would pull 1,000 more troops out of southern Iraq by the end of the year.
"Hopefully they will be home by Christmas," Brown told reporters in Baghdad during his first trip to Iraq since becoming pri..
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MSNBC
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Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported Monday hours after he had landed in Pakistan from seven years in exile hoping to campaign against the country’s U.S.-allied military ruler, two officials and Pakistani media reported.
About four hours a..
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