China Replaces 5 Cabinet Ministers
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China replaced five Cabinet ministers -- including the finance minister and the head of the secret police -- the government said Thursday, just weeks ahead of a major Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the next five years.
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Jiang Zemin has given up the top job in China&#39;s military, handing over the post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao and completing a historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday after losing a key minister in a parliamentary election and made former international lawyer Christine Lagarde France's first female economy minister.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday reshuffled his cabinet for a third time, removing most of ministers while keeping the pivotal portfolios of economy, trade
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Cabinet ministers in the Hamas-led Palestinian government resigned Thursday, a step toward forming a unity government with Palestinian President Mamoud Abbas' Fatah party.
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KABUL: President Hamid Karzai named a new cabinet on Thursday, dismissing the defense minister and removing other warlords from top spots in a major reshuffling.
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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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A fifth senior Justice Department official announced his resignation yesterday in the wake of the controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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BAGHDAD, June 29 -- Members of the leading Sunni coalition in the Iraqi government said Friday that six of its ministers would withdraw from the Cabinet because of criminal accusations against one minister and their sense of alienation within the Shiite-dominated government.
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With Monday's announcement of four Cabinet resignations, at least six Cabinet members are leaving the Bush administration.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed Nobutaka Machimura to succeed Yoriko Kawaguchi as foreign minister in a cabinet reshuffle Monday, while retaining Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda and Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki.
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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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The home and labour ministers in Myanmar's government have been &quot;permitted to retire&quot; in the latest reshuffle following the ousting of prime minister General Khin Nyunt last month.
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KABUL Afghanistan&#39;s new cabinet was sworn in on Friday, sealing the removal of some high-profile warlords from the government.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet fired five ministers on Tuesday in a major cabinet reshuffle to steady her embattled government, hit by low approval ratings despite strong economic growth.
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THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reshuffled his 36-member cabinet for the ninth time yesterday, dispensing with three senior ministers in a move designed to limit his own responsibility for key crises.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra replaced his agriculture and defense ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle Wednesday, apparently because they failed to resolve Thailand&#39;s bird flu crisis and continuing violence in the country&#39;s Muslim