Jiang Zemin resigns; gives up military control
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Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China yesterday as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.
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KIEV -- Viktor Yanukovych announced his resignation as prime minister yesterday, handing Ukraine's pro-Western opposition a symbolic victory, but he pledged to continue his court battle for the presidency of this former Soviet republic.
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A meeting of China&#39;s Communists ends today with expectations the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin is to give up military control.
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Former President Jiang Zemin gave up the top job in China&#39;s military yesterday, handing over his last post to the Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, to complete the leadership transition to a younger generation.
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Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma on Wednesday formally accepted the resignation of Viktor Yanukovych as prime minister, the presidential press service said.
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China's Communist Party is due to wrap up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a historic leadership succession.
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Pakistan's President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has agreed to step down as the country's military chief during negotiations on a power-sharing deal with Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, she told CNN Wednesday.
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HARDLINERS in Burma&#39;s military regime were consolidating their control of the country yesterday after ousting the Prime Minister, painting a gloomy prospect for the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The Fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee in the Communist Party in China was closed on September 19. In this meeting, Jiang Zeminâs resignation as the CPC`s top military official was the top story.
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A meeting of China&#39;s ruling Communist Party is due to close later on Sunday amid reports military chief Jiang Zemin will complete a long awaited leadership transition by handing the army over to President Hu Jintao.
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China&#39;s president, Hu Jintao, replaced Jiang Zemin as the country&#39;s military chief and de facto top leader on Sunday, state media announced, completing the first orderly transfer
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President Chen resigns as DPP chairman in Taiwan, in a move which could signal a new drive to find consensus.
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Jiang Zemin, the conservative chief of the People&#39;s Liberation Army, may announce his resignation within weeks, raising hopes for democratic reform in China and an easing of tensions over Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya resigns as part of a new deal to set up a national unity government.
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His philosophy has underpinned China&#39;s opaque and secretive political system and, for this reason, Jiang Zemin&#39;s decision to stand down as army chief three years ahead of schedule marks the real handover of authority.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed a powerful warlord from his post as provincial governor in the latest move to solidify the central government's control of wayward provinces ahead of October's landmark polls.
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Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong retired from the Communists' upper ranks on Sunday, bolstering Party boss Hu Jintao's grip on power and clearing the way for a younger generation of potential successors.