Kuwait gov't resigns ahead of health minister vote
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Kuwait's government resigned on Sunday, parliament members said, in a move aimed at thwarting a no-confidence motion against the Gulf Arab country's health minister, a member of the ruling family.
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Kuwait's only female cabinet minister, Nouria Sbeih, survives a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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South Africa's deputy health minister on Tuesday denied calling upon President Thabo Mbeki to take a public AIDS test, but repeated that she believed it was important for national leaders to be tested.
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ROME - Italy's Romano Prodi is scrambling for support ahead of a vote of confidence this week which he must win to stay on as prime minister.Prodi resigned last week after suffering an ...Comment
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Hong Kong's former health chief said she has secured support from &quot;some countries&quot; for the top job at the World Health Organisation (WHO), hours before the nominations process was to end.
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Opposition parties heaped pressure on Japan's health minister on Sunday, demanding that he resign for calling women "birth-giving machines", as voting took place in two local elections which could decide his fate.
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Rejecting the national pharmacare plan favoured by the provinces, federal health minister Ujjal Dosanjh says he&#39;s confident a strategy is still in the works.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An official of a Sunni political party said Thursday the group would push forward with demands to postpone general elections despite statements the government was committed to holding the vote on Jan. 30.
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OTTAWA -- A scheduled three-day first ministers conference next month designed to reform the health system should continue &quot;as long as it takes&quot; to get a deal, Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday, even as one of the key premiers said he will limit
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Kuwait's information minister tenders his resignation hours ahead of questioning by parliament on morality issues.
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A Kuwaiti diplomat who was beaten as he left his country's embassy in Tehran will be flown home for treatment Wednesday, and the Kuwaiti government is awaiting results of an Iranian investigation into the attack, a Kuwaiti official said.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Just because he's federal health minister, doesn't mean he's healthy.
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Early results in Estonia's parliamentary poll suggest the governing coalition is poised to stay in power
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JERUSALEM  - The political mouthpiece of the settler movement was poised to resign from Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition government Tuesday after the Israeli prime minister refused to bow to demands to put his Gaza pullout plan to a national referendum.
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Japan's opposition parties on Sunday kept up pressure on the health minister to resign for calling women "birth-giving machines", as voting began in two local elections the results of which could decide his fate.
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HONG KONG - Veteran protester Leung Kwok-hung, who won a seat in legislative elections, says he will demand the resignation of Hong Kong&#39;s leader when the two hold face-to-face talks on Saturday, media reports said.
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A Lebanese cabinet minister has resigned to protest parliament&#39;s controversial decision to extend the term of Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud.