Syria ousts 8 Cabinet ministers in shakeup
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DAMASCUS -- President Bashar Assad shuffled his Cabinet yesterday, just weeks after the United States and the United Nations challenged Syria over its military presence in Lebanon and the security situation along its border with Iraq.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell and three other cabinet members have resigned, escalating the shakeup of President George W. Bush&#39;s second-term team.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffles his cabinet, following a poll defeat of his reform proposals.
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Lebanon&#39;s Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri resigned Wednesday after the pro-Syrian president&#39;s term was extended under what lawmakers called pressure from Damascus.
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Lebanon&#39;s hothouse politics have been thrown into turmoil by Syria&#39;s insistence - at a suddenly summoned special cabinet meeting over the weekend - that the president
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra shakes up cabinet in a bid to beat bird flu and unrest in the south.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday appointed new ministers of interior and justice and information, a cabinet reshuffle after his victory in a recall referendum.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his cabinet on Monday, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms in the world's second-largest economy.
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A Lebanese cabinet minister has resigned to protest parliament&#39;s controversial decision to extend the term of Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud.
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President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the Russian government on the request of the prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday, a major political shakeup that comes less than three months before crucial parliamentary elections.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took a perilous step toward early elections yesterday, firing Cabinet ministers from the secular Shinui Party after members of the junior coalition
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KABUL: President Hamid Karzai named a new cabinet on Thursday, dismissing the defense minister and removing other warlords from top spots in a major reshuffling.
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Burma&#39;s military government, in a weekend move, reshuffled its cabinet, with the foreign minister and deputy foreign minister stepping down.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday reshuffled his cabinet for a third time, removing most of ministers while keeping the pivotal portfolios of economy, trade
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Lebanon&#39;s prime minister Rafic Hariri announced the possibility of making a reshuffle on his government as from September 17 after four ministers including 3 from the Democratic Gathering bloc led by the Druz leader Walid Junblat gave their resignation in
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Poland WARSAW -- Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski shook up his Cabinet yesterday, dumping his coalition partner and bringing back his promarket finance chief in a move that could lead to new elections. Andrzej Lepper was dismissed from his two posts of deputy prime minister and agriculture minister. Zyta Gilowska was reappointed finance minister after she was cleared of communist collaboration ...
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With Monday's announcement of four Cabinet resignations, at least six Cabinet members are leaving the Bush administration.