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BBC News
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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..
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SF Gate
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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MSNBC
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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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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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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FOX News
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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..
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CNN
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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..
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Globe and Mail
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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..
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Reuters
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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..
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Times Online
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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..
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Physorg
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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..
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Yahoo News
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Italy is becoming a nation of cocaine users, according to a senior government minister...
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