Gul sworn in as Turkey president
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was sworn in as Turkey's president on Tuesday despite the objections of a powerful military that fears a creeping subversion of the country's secular order under the former Islamist.
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The cabinet of Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected President, Hamid Karzai, has been sworn in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kabul.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn-in as Afghanistan&#39;s first directly-elected president amid tight security at his fortified Presidential Palace Tuesday.
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Thousands of cheering supporters showered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with ticker tape Saturday as he returned to Ankara from a European summit, vowing to press forward with reforms and the country&#39;s bid to join the bloc.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s new transitional Parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing its first national government since 1991.
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Hamid Karzai was due to be sworn in as  Afghanistan's first popularly elected President on Tuesday at a  ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for  easing him into power.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country exactly three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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THE CEREMONY: Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a five-year term as Afghan president after winning the country&#39;s first vote for head of state.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected Turkey's president on Tuesday, the first former Islamist to take the post in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history.
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president at a ceremony attended by US Deputy President Dick Cheney and Defence Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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Turkish MPs are expected to elect a controversial former Islamist, Abdullah Gul, as president of the republic.
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Turkey's powerful armed forces chief paid a courtesy visit to his newly elected president on Monday following accusations the general had snubbed him because of his Islamist past.
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a former general, took the oath of office on Wednesday as the first directly elected president of Indonesia, and in a businesslike address
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistanâs first popularly elected president yesterday, promising to bring peace to the war-torn nation and an end to the economyâs dependence on narcotics.
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Pakistan&#39;s former Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz was sworn in as prime minister on Saturday, a day after parliament elected him as premier.
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Hamid Karzai was set to be sworn in on  Tuesday as the country's first popularly elected president at a  ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for  easing him into power.
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Hamid Karzai was set to be sworn in on Tuesday as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.