India set for first woman president
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India looked set Thursday to get its first woman president after a vote by lawmakers, but doubts remained as to whether the 72-year-old -- dogged by a slew of scandals -- was fit to assume the post.
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The largest trade organization for the advertising industry is poised to name a woman as its leader for the first time in its 91-year history.
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PM-designate Omar Karameh forms a new 30-member cabinet which includes women for the first time.
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The daughter of South Korea's assassinated president Park Chung-hee on Monday launched a bid to be the country's first woman leader in a race dominated by her main challenger for the opposition conservative's nomination.
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The British Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Blair, will visit India from November 26-29 in connection with a charity of which she is president, it was confirmed on Sunday.
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Former Indian deputy Prime Minister LK Advani becomes the new president of the main opposition BJP.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s first female vice-president, Joyce Mujuru, has taken over as acting head of state during President Robert Mugabe&#39;s year-end vacation.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for the millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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IRAN TEHRAN -- Iran's hard-line leadership ruled out allowing women to run for president in June elections, denying reports in the state-run media yesterday that it had decided to allow female candidates for the first time. It was not clear whether the denial meant the Guardian Council was reversing itself or whether the earlier announcement was a mistake.
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NEW DELHI: Myanmar army strongman General Than Shwe was due to meet Indian premier Manmohan Singh, leader of the world&#39;s biggest democracy, in New Delhi as the neighbouring nations sought stronger ties.
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Pratibha Patil, a diminutive 72-year-old lawyer, was set to be declared India&#39;s first woman president Saturday after one of the bitterest political campaigns in the nation&#39;s post-colonial history.
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Segolene Royal has officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, struggled to mount a challenge.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for hundreds of millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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Argentines appeared certain to choose their first elected female president on Sunday, with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner favored to win by a wide margin over her closest rival, another woman.
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Maoist leader Prachanda says he expects to be Nepal's first president after its monarchy is abolished.
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Â·  UMP and allies expected to win 70% of 577 seats Â·  President set to unleash string of radical reforms
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Mary McAleese is to be inaugurated as Irish president for the second time at a ceremony in Dublin Castle.