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Prime Minister Anton Rop conceded defeat in EU newcomer Slovenia&#39;s general election on Sunday, after his Liberal Democrats suffered a surprise heavy loss to the centre-right Slovenian Democrats.
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Latvian Prime Minister Indulis Emsis&#39;s seven-month-old government collapsed after one member of the three-party minority coalition voted against the draft 2005 budget in parliament on concern the planned deficit was too big.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase claimed victory for his Social Democrats party (PSD) in Sunday&#39;s parliamentary elections following favorable showings in exit polls.
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Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi was reconfirmed as prime minister on Friday when he won a second and final confidence vote in parliament, ending a political crisis and ensuring there will be no snap ...Comment
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SYDNEY, Australia - Prime Minister John Howard scored a stunning victory in Australia's federal election Saturday in a vote ensuring the country keeps its troops in Iraq.    Labor Party leader Mark Latham conceded defeat in a speech to his supporters in western Sydney, saying he called Howard to congratulate him on his fourth straight election victory...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, who has come under intense pressure to quit after admitting he lied to voters, won a confidence motion in parliament on Friday.
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Hungary's prime minister admits saying his party lied to the public in order to win April's general election.
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KIEV -- The Ukrainian parliament voted yesterday to dismiss the government headed by the declared winner of a disputed presidential vote, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, handing the opposition a victory in its campaign to overturn national election results.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s main rival for the Afghan presidency yesterday conceded defeat with less than 6 per cent of the vote count remaining.
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President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan's historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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Belgian voters handed a stinging defeat Sunday to centre-right Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt in legislative elections, taking a big step towards a change of government.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court on Monday turned down four appeals of last month's presidential election results filed by Viktor Yanukovych, the former prime minister who preliminary results show lost to a ...
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President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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Slovenia's centre-right opposition wins a surprise victory in the first national poll since EU membership.
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The main rival of President Hamid Karzai has conceded defeat in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election with less than six per cent of the vote left to be counted.
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INDONESIA&#39;S outgoing President Megawati Sukarnoputri today tearfully conceded defeat in last month&#39;s elections, clearing the way for the winner, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to begin forming a new government.
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With the war in Iraq dividing his government and eroding trust in his leadership, Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday conceded at