Hawkish Party Leaves Israel's Ruling Coalition
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 16 -- A hawkish faction of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition pulled out of his government Wednesday following the start of talks this week over how to resolve the most vexing issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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An Israeli right-wing party leaves the government in protest at peace talks starting with the Palestinians.
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The move by the legislator, angered over the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, leaves Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a slimmer majority in Parliament.
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Thailand's ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra quits as leader of the political party he founded and built up, Thai Rak Thai.
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Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the
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JERUSALEM -- A prosettlement party said yesterday that it plans to quit Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition government over his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, further eroding his hold on power.
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Israel's pro-settler National  Religious Party (NRP) decided on Monday to quit Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon's government in protest at his Gaza pullout plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lost a key vote which would have seen the dovish Labour Party join the government coalition and salvage his Gaza disengagement plan.
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Israel&#39;s ruling Likud party has closed a deal with the opposition Labor party to form a unity government. Under the agreement, Labor leader Shimon Peres will be second in command to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Divided party throws out hope of rainbow coalition, leaving Plaid Cymru and Tories frustrated.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s ruling party, ZANU-PF, has ended its congress by announcing the members of its central committee. It was almost business as usual at the end of the three-day gathering as the majority
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was last night negotiating with the Labour Party and ultra-religious groups in a make-or-break bid to build a new coalition capable of ensuring a Gaza Strip pullout next year, after he dismissed the five ministers of
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A Russian billionaire launches a new political party in Israel with the aim of ousting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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BAGHDAD, March 7 -- A small Shiite political party on Wednesday pulled out of the governing Shiite parliamentary bloc that put Iraq's prime minister in power.
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A right-wing party quit Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition government on Wednesday, condemning his peace efforts with the Palestinians in a move that still left him with a parliamentary majority.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 15 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, resigned Thursday to make way for a power-sharing government with the rival Fatah party in the hopes of ending factional strife and restoring international aid to the nearly bankrupt Palestinian Authority.