UAE Supreme Council elects Khalifa as president
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The Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday evening unanimously elected Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the new president of the UAE, the official Emirates news agency WAM reported Wednesday.
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News of the US elections competed only with the death of the UAE&#39;s president for space on the front pages of Arab newspapers Wednesday.
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Osama bin Laden finally voted for president. So did Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of &quot;Monotheism and Holy War,&quot; alleged beheader of Western hostages in Iraq, and the US target of choice in and around embattled Fallujah.
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The United Arab Emirates appointed Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as its president Wednesday, hours after burying his father in a funeral that attracted thousands of mourners and several heads of state to this
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The Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf state of Bahrain appoints its first Shia Muslim deputy prime minister.
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Nairobi: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed won Somalia&#39;s presidential vote, an election official announced at a ballot designed to install the anarchic Horn of Africa&#39;s country&#39;s first recognised central government since 1991.
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Leaders in the Arab world have congratulated incumbent US President George W. Bush on his re-election. Arab League chief Amr Moussa hopes Bush will actively push forward the
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Iraqi rebel cleric Moqtada al Sadr has officially handed control of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Najaf to representatives of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz expressed shock and condoled the demise of the president and founding father of United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- There&#39;s been a death of a leader in the Arab world. State-run media say the president of the United Arab Emirates has died.
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The most important decision about who will run for president of the Palestinian Authority was made Monday by the Fatah movement's 15-member Central Committee, which nominated former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas as the group's presidential candidate for the Jan. 9 election.
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The United Arab Emirates appointed Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as its president Wednesday, hours after burying his father in a funeral that attracted thousands of mourners and nine heads of state to this desert nation on the Arabian Peninsula.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas declared that  he had won a Palestinian presidential election on Sunday and  dedicated his victory to Yasser Arafat, the iconic leader he is  replacing.
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, leader of the Barod clan, one of the four major clans of Somalia, was elected president of Somalia, parliament speaker Shariff Hassan Shek Adan announced here Sunday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 25 -- The Revolutionary Council of the dominant Palestinian political faction, Fatah, approved former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday as its candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat in a presidential election set for Jan. 9.
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Abu Dhabi, Nov 3 (PTI) President APJ Abdul Kalam tonight called on the new ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Al Bateen palace here and offered condolences over the death of the UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan.
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A large funeral was held yesterday afternoon for Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, late president of the United Arab Emirates, who died on Tuesday evening at 86 year old of which he had spent 33 years as a president for the country.