Chinaâs Vice President Steps Down
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Closing a weeklong Communist Party congress, delegates selected a new Central Committee, with Vice President Zeng Qinghong not among those selected.
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Former President Jiang Zemin resigns his post as head of military.
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BEIJING, June 2 -- Vice Premier Huang Ju, a reformer who helped guide China through a period of swift economic change, died in a Beijing hospital early Saturday after a long illness, the government announced. He was reported to be suffering from cancer and had largely disappeared from public view in...
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China's Communist Party closes a five-yearly Congress on Sunday that will acclaim President Hu Jintao's policies and start to install a new leadership crucial to shaping his legacy.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely viewed as the moderate in an administration dominated by hawks, announced Monday he will step down as America&#39;s chief diplomat once a successor is in place.
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Resigning Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, center, and newly appointed Vice-President Majid Ansari, second left, attend a meeting of the central council of their party President Mohammad Khatami accepted Abtahi&#39;s resignation, in Tehran, Iran
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday after almost half a century at Cuba's helm, setting the stage for an orderly transfer of power to his brother Raul.
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Capping a rocky but peaceful transition of power, China&#39;s ruling Communist Party on Sunday eased former paramount leader Jiang Zemin out of his last formal post as head of the military
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China's Communists began winding up a  five-yearly Congress on Sunday by announcing the Vice President  was out of the new Party lineup, making way for President Hu  Jintao to install potential successors.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell announced his resignation Monday, ending four years of battles with Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld about the course of US foreign policy.
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R. Nicholas Burns, the countryâs third-ranking diplomat who has been Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs right-hand man, is retiring for personal reasons.
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The former Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, has tendered his resignation as head of the People&#39;s Liberation Army, according to reports yesterday, raising hopes for political reform in the world&#39;s most populous nation.
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Dick Cheneyâs critics, and even some of his supporters, say the vice president has been diminished by the proceedings.
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President Chen resigns as DPP chairman in Taiwan, in a move which could signal a new drive to find consensus.
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Virginia's secretary of technology, George C. Newstrom, said yesterday that he is stepping down from the post after more than two years on the job. He will be replaced by his deputy, Eugene J. Huang.
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Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju, a protege of former leader Jiang Zemin, died early on Saturday after a long illness, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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In July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ditched his vice-president, Marshal Mohammad Fahim, one of the countryâs most powerful warlords.