Local Party Official in China Ousted Over Fatal Bombing
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BEIJING, July 17 -- Duan Yihe, 61, was known in Jinan city as a serious man, a quietly efficient official at the pinnacle of a long career in local Communist Party politics.
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Shanghai's top Communist Party leader has been sacked over a major corruption scandal, China's state press said, although analysts suggested it could be part of a power play by President Hu Jintao.
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A bombing Monday targeted the funeral of an Afghan provincial governor who was assassinated a day earlier by a suicide bomber, the Afghan Interior Ministry told CNN.
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China holds a scaled-down funeral on  Saturday for Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief toppled in  1989 for opposing the army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square  demonstrations for democracy.
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Two suspected suicide bombers died Sunday when they prematurely detonated their bomb near the residence of a senior leader of the ruling party in eastern Pakistan, police said.
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Izz A din Al Halil, a senior Hamas official, has been killed in a car blast in Syria, the Palestinian resistance movement confirmed Sunday.
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A government minister resigned Tuesday after police named him as a suspect in the death of a Canadian woman at their shared home in the Pakistani capital.
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An official from the Palestinian  militant group Hamas was killed on Sunday when a bomb exploded  in his car in Damascus, Hamas spokesmen and witnesses said.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, is in hospital, the government and sources close to the family said Tuesday.
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China has executed a former state banker for embezzlement and accepting bribes, state media said on Wednesday, days after a senior Communist Party official was put to death for blowing up his mistress with a car bomb.
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The opposition Kuomintang party won a landslide victory as President Chen Shui-bian resigned as chairman of the governing Democratic Progressive Party to take responsibility for the loss.
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All trace of Shanghai's disgraced Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu disappeared from the city government's official Web site on Monday moments after state media announced he had been fired for corruption.
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An official once in charge of guarding cultural relics has been sentenced to death in China's biggest antiquities theft case since the start of communist rule in 1949.
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The Communist Party boss of Shanghai   has been sacked for corruption, state media announced on   Monday, toppling the highest leader so far in national party   chief Hu Jintao's drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.
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A suicide bomber tried to kill the leader of Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shi&#39;ite political group Monday while the main Sunni party withdrew from the country&#39;s January 30th election.
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China's Communist Party expels nine officials and businessmen over a big Shanghai corruption scandal.
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A suicide bomb kills An Afghan provincial governor, the highest-ranking official to die in the insurgency.