Former Lebanese premier Karameh named to form new government
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BEIRUT  - Pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud named former premier Omar Karameh to succeed Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who resigned a day earlier amid international criticism of the influence Damascus wields over its tiny neighbour.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri resigned Wednesday and said he would not form a new government, following a widely opposed constitutional change to keep the Syrian-backed president in office.
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The Greek Prime Minister, Costas Karamanlis, has been asked to form a new government after his party won Sunday's parliamentary poll. On Monday Mr Karamanlis met President Karolos Papoulias, who asked him to form the new government.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , left, arrives at the the presidential palace to submit his resignation to President Emil Lahoud Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004.
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Greek PM Costas Karamanlis has been asked to form a new government after his victory in Sunday's poll.
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DC's former mayor takes a new role in government
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[World News]: Beirut, Oct 20 : Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri tendered his government&#39;s resignation to President Emile Lahoud Wednesday, allowing him to set up a new cabinet, Xinhua reports.
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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential elections.
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Embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi named a new Cabinet Monday, two weeks after the old one was dissolved amid a rift within the U.N.-backed transitional government over how to respond to the growing influence of Islamic militants.
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President Lahoud is set to name a new prime minister following Rafiq Hariri's shock departure on Wednesday.
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The dominance of Damascus in Lebanese politics gives rise to a new opposition leader.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri  submitted his cabinet's resignation Wednesday and said he would  not form a new government.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will swear in a new prime minister and emergency cabinet on Saturday, a top aide said, replacing the Hamas-led government he fired after the group's bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Egyptian authorities license a new party led by a former prominent member of the ruling National Democratic Party.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon -- President Emile Lahoud appointed staunchly pro-Syrian politician Omar Karami as prime minister on Thursday and asked him to form the next government, replacing billionaire Rafik Hariri in a move that consolidates Syria&#39;s hold on
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PM-designate Omar Karameh forms a new 30-member cabinet which includes women for the first time.
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JUST weeks before Emile Lahoud is scheduled to start his newly extended three-year term as president of Lebanon, the country has been plunged into a political crisis with the decision by Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to give up his post, dissolve his