New Icelandic prime minister takes office
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Geir Haarde became Iceland&#039;s new prime minister Thursday, marking a return to the office for Iceland&#039;s largest political party and a likely shift toward a tighter fiscal policy.
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New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown assembled his cabinet team Thursday on his first day in office after taking over from Tony Blair vowing to lead a government of change.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Aug 28 (PNS) - Shaukat Aziz has been elected as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan on Friday. He got one hundred and ninety-one votes in a special session of the National Assembly held
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John Howard has been formally sworn in as Prime Minister with his new fourth term ministry by Queen Elizabeth II's Australian representative Governor-General Michael Jeffery.
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Thailand's parliament on Monday chose a combative, right-wing politician and close ally of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra as the country's new prime minister
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A new centre-right government has taken office in Greece, after the re-election last weekend of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's New Democracy party. The new cabinet, which includes several senior ministers from the previous government, was sworn in at a ceremony in the presidential palace in Athens.
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The European Union's new executive commission took office after a three-week delay facing yet another fierce row over one of its members.
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Former finance minister and President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s key loyalist Shaukat Aziz took the oath of office on Saturday as the country&#39;s new prime minister, one day after his parliamentary
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Pakistan&#39;s former finance minister Shaukat Aziz has taken the oath of office as the country&#39;s new prime minister, one day after his parliamentary election was boycotted by the entire opposition.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Aug 29 (PID) - Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz arrived at the Prime Minister&#39;s House on Saturday after swearing in as the country&#39;s Premier on Saturday morning.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sworn in new cabinet members for his emergency government at his headquarters in Ramallah.
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Centre-right opposition leader Fredrik Reinfeldt, who has pledged to cut taxes and trim the welfare state, formally became Sweden's new prime minister on Thursday after winning a vote in parliament.
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Leading pro-Beijing figure Tsang Tak-sing is appointed to the Hong Kong government in a new cabinet.
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Iceland Prime Minister David Oddsson, Europe's longest-serving premier, is stepping down after a 13-year tenure marked by the transformation of his island country with free market policies.
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SLOVENIA'S parliament elected centrist leader Janez Jansa as new prime minister today, giving him a clear mandate to form a ruling coalition after elections last month.
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BUCHAREST Romania&#39;s new centrist government was sworn in on Wednesday and immediately set out to overhaul the tax system, fight corruption and boost investment in the country.
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Thai lawmakers choose Samak Sundaravej, ally of ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra, as the new prime minister.