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SF Gate
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Taiwan's new president took office Tuesday and set the tone for his administration's policy on rival China: better economic and political ties but no plans for unification with the mainland.
The inauguration of Ma Ying-jeou, 57, represents a clear brea..
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CNN
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Nepalese police shot and killed a demonstrator Wednesday as he protested the killing of a political candidate a day earlier, police said. The demonstrator's death is the latest of several violent episodes in Nepal in advance of elections scheduled for Thu..
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Yahoo News
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China must pursue democratic reforms to defuse economic and social imbalances threatening the country's stability, a former editor of the People's Daily said in a rare open call for political reform...
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Boston Globe
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By day, Alireza Samiei covers banking and insurance for an industry newspaper. By night, he writes a daring online blog about Iran's social and political ills...
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BBC News
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is holding talks in Kenya in an attempt to push the country's rival political groups to accept a deal to share power.
Before meeting President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga in Nairobi, Ms Rice sai..
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CNN
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Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has told Italy's president that only early elections can end the political crisis sparked by the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi last week. Berlusconi, a former prime minister, on Tuesday rejected the possib..
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BBC News
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Turkish prosecutors have reportedly moved to ban a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey that has been accused of colluding with Kurdish rebels.
Supreme Court prosecutors asked the Constitutional Court to bar the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the sta..
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BBC News
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Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met members of her political party for the first time in more than three years.
Ms Suu Kyi is reported to be optimistic about the chances of reconciliation with the military junta.
Earlier s..
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MSNBC
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Yasuo Fukuda, a quiet compromiser who has promised to bring stability and moderation to Japan’s tumultuous political scene, was elected prime minister by the lower house of parliament Tuesday.
Fukuda garnered 338 votes in the lower house, many more t..
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SF Gate
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Japan's troubled ruling party on Sunday chose as its leader an admittedly uncharismatic party elder known for his dovish foreign policy and quiet political know-how.
Yasuo Fukuda, 71, a longtime salary man in the oil industry before serving as Cabinet..
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CNN
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he expected early elections in the autumn after his conservative party gave him the green light on Saturday to push for a snap vote to end weeks of political turmoil. Early elections have been on the cards in..
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Washington Post
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China's Olympic organizers said Monday that they will not allow the 2008 Beijing Games to be turned into a sounding board for foreigners with a political agenda. But even as they spoke, foreign demonstrators demanded the release of political prisoners and..
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Washington Post
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With two new manuals for high school history and social studies teachers, written in part by Kremlin political consultants, Russian authorities are attempting to imbue classroom debate with a nationalist outlook.
The history guide contains a laudatory..
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USA Today
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Though Sudan has accepted the notion of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the operation could still be derailed by a lack of funding and political will, African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said Sunday.
"What is lacking toda..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's opposition and ruling parties are holding talks aimed at solving the country's economic and political crisis, officials say.
The first talks since South African President Thabo Mbeki was tasked with mediating between the rivals began in Sout..
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CNN
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Ukraine's president and prime minister on Sunday agreed to hold an early parliamentary election on September 30, defusing a months-long political crisis that had threatened to escalate into violence.
"We found a decision, which is a compromise," Presid..
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CNN
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The leaders of the European Union and Russia traded barbs over Russia's human rights record at the end of their summit Friday, an event that produced no formal agreements and served mainly to illustrate the widening political chasm between Russia and the..
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CNN
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Moscow airport officials stalled journalists and political opposition party members Friday morning, causing them to miss a flight bound to a southwestern Russian city where an anti-Kremlin march was planned on the sidelines of a major Russia-European Unio..
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Al Jazeera
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The ruling was an embarrassment for Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the prime minister, and his twin Lech, Poland's president, who have made the law a cornerstone of their political agenda.
The brothers have exerted pressure on the tribunal in the past few days, a..
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BBC News
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France is preparing to enter a new political era, one day after choosing right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy to be the country's next president.
Previously a divisive cabinet minister, Mr Sarkozy won a clear election victory over Socialist opponent Segolene Roy..
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