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CNN
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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..
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FOX News
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said, in a step to bolster the moderate Palestinian leader in his standoff against the Islamic terrorist group Hamas.
Prime Ministe..
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BBC News
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A Thai cabinet minister allied to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned after being accused of criticising the monarchy.
Jakrapob Penkair stepped down after the police said they would charge him with lese majeste, a serious offence whic..
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BBC News
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has named veteran lawmakers to key posts in his new Cabinet.
Nobutaka Machimura has become foreign minister for a second time - replacing Taro Aso, who is now secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
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BBC News
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Five Iraqi MPs have announced a boycott of cabinet meetings, deepening the political crisis and leaving the unity government without any Sunni members.
The ministers, who are loyal to former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, blamed what they said was the Shi..
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SF Gate
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused Sunday to accept the resignations of six Cabinet members, keeping open the door for a possible return of Sunni ministers whose departure last week caused a crisis in his unity government.
Members of the Sunni bloc..
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BBC News
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The future of Poland's governing coalition is in doubt after a junior member, the Self Defence party, pulled its ministers out of the cabinet.
The move was announced by party leader Andrzej Lepper, who was sacked in July by PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski after..
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FOX News
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned as head of an emergency government and was immediately appointed Saturday to lead an interim Cabinet, after a state of emergency imposed after Hamas' Gaza takeover expired.
Fayyad's resignation and reapp..
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Alter Net
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The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy.
As the Iraqi cabinet approves part of a controversi..
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Al Jazeera
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The administration in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq said on Wednesday that it had "not seen and approved the final text of the law". "We hope that the cabinet is not approving a text with which the KRG (Kurdish Regional Government)..
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BBC News
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc has said it will boycott government meetings because of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers.
The Iraqi Accord Front (IAF) has six ministers, and its move is seen as a blow to the Shia-led cabinet as it tries..
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Washington Post
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency cabinet Sunday and officially outlawed the armed wing and paramilitary security branch of the Hamas movement, saying it had carried out a "military coup against the Palestinian legitimacy..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says prospects for peace could be boosted by the creation of a new Palestinian government without the Hamas party.
Israel would regard such a cabinet as a partner, he said, adding that Hamas' exclusion "creates opport..
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BBC News
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has accepted the resignation of his cabinet, a move widely expected after last month's parliamentary election.
Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem's ruling coalition won 249 of the 389 seats in the poll, but its v..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Gordon Brown's path to a radical rejuvenation of the cabinet was cleared yesterday when the home secretary, John Reid, his great rival, shocked Labour politics by announcing he was quitting the front bench altogether.
It had been expected that Mr Reid..
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FOX News
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Telling his rivals to "slow down," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet Wednesday in a feverish attempt to hold on to power following a scathing report on his handling of last year's war in Lebanon.
This week's report h..
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USA Today
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet Wednesday in a feverish attempt to hold on to power, urging his rivals to "slow down" before trying to reap political capital from a scathing report on his handling of last year's war a..
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FOX News
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced an onslaught of calls for his resignation on Tuesday and a Cabinet minister disillusioned by his leadership quit, following a government panel's harsh criticism of the Israeli leader's handling of last summer's Lebanon war..
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Yahoo News
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Six senior Irish government ministers were forced to call in the army after spending a sweaty half hour trapped in a tiny lift.
Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern, who spent 30 minutes cooped up with cabinet colleagues, including Finance Minister Brian Cowe..
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BBC News
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Maoist ex-rebels have been sworn in as ministers in Nepal's interim government after a deal on the make-up of the new cabinet tasked with building peace.
Parties in the ruling alliance reached a deal after a day of haggling over senior posts.
Five M..
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