Ashdown pulls out of bid to be Afghanistan envoy
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Senior British politician Paddy Ashdown has withdrawn his candidacy for the role of United Nations representative in Afghanistan, he said in a statement Sunday.
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Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf is backing out of his promise to step down as army chief at the end of the year. Yesterday&#39;s announcement by the Information Ministry has infuriated the political opposition.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  The US ambassador helped broker a cease-fire Tuesday to halt the latest bloody infighting in Afghanistan, persuading a warlord to pull away from a provincial capital as US warplanes circled overhead.
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An officer has resigned from the British army in protest at its &quot;grotesquely clumsy&quot; campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Sunday Times reports.
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Â·  Chief negotiator resigns after rift on strategyÂ·   Doubts surround future of foreign minister
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Domestic Afghan politics were behind President Hamid Karzai's veto of Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy there, the senior British diplomat said Sunday.
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Bangladesh's main opposition called off a four-day transport blockade after the interim government bowed to pressure to replace an election chief accused of seeking to rig January polls.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 27 Afghanistan formally expelled a senior U.N. official and the acting head of the European Union's mission there for allegedly meeting with Taliban militants. via Earth Times
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The president-elect of the European Commission on Wednesday withdrew his proposed executive team from consideration by the European Parliament to avoid an unprecedented rejection.
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Afghanistan makes it clear it does not want Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy to the country.
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John C. Danforth, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said Friday that he withdrew his name from contention for any senior post in President Bush&#39;s second term
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Bangladesh's main opposition has called off a four-day transport blockade after the interim government bowed to pressure to replace an election chief accused of seeking to rig January elections.
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has abruptly withdrawn his name from consideration to be US Homeland Security Secretary, prompting the search for a new candidate.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai  abruptly canceled a speech to a state-run think tank in  Pakistan on Tuesday, but officials denied security was a  reason.
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Britain's Paddy Ashdown says he has withdrawn his name from the list of possible UN envoys to Afghanistan.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard dismissed talk of Foreign Minister Alexander Downer taking over as head of the UN nuclear watchdog, amid reported US pressure for him to do so.