Barak wins leadership of Israel's Labor Party
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Wednesday, putting him in an influential position to decide the fate of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his coalition government.
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Opposition Labor Party leader Mark Latham has conceded defeat in Australia&#39;s general elections and congratulated Prime Minister John Howard for winning a fourth consecutive term in office.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the  opposition Labour party into government, said Army Radio citing  an initial ballot count.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the  opposition Labour party into government, officials said.
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Israel's Labour Party voted in a runoff leadership election on Tuesday pitting former prime minister Ehud Barak against ex-intelligence chief Ami Ayalon, a race that may help decide Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's future.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak emerged marginally ahead in a runoff vote for leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, exit polls showed.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was leading a close race for the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, television exit polls showed.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and veteran Labor Party leader Shimon Peres agreed Thursday on a title for Peres, paving the way for the establishment of the coalition government.
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JERUSALEM -- Shimon Peres -- the octogenarian former prime minister, Nobel laureate, and perennial loser of elections -- handily won Israel's presidency yesterday, in his second bid for what is likely to be his last job in public life.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard managed to secure another term as leader after election results released Saturday handily declared him the winner.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak will be named Israel's defence minister next week in a reshuffle of the coalition cabinet rushed through in response to Palestinian factional warfare in Gaza, officials said on Friday.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a key victory today as his cabinet easily approved a plan to compensate Jewish settlers who would be uprooted from the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- A former prime minister won the Labor party primary over a relative political newcomer, party officials from both camps and Israel Radio said late yesterday, in a race between two former military officers who both called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down.
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Sydney, Oct. 10 (NNN): Australia&#39;s Prime Minister John Howard has won his fourth term in office. With 70% of the votes counted in Saturday&#39;s election, results indicate Howard&#39;s Liberal-National coalition has won an easy majority over Labour.
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Turkey's ruling AK Party won a resounding election victory on Sunday, giving the pro-business, Islamist-rooted party a mandate for reform but potentially setting the stage for renewed tensions with the secular elite.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked virtually assured of reelection as leader of the rightist Likud party after it gave him a key vote of confidence on Tuesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  won a crucial Likud party vote on Thursday that will let him  bring opposition Labour into his shattered coalition and power  forward a plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.