Temaru elected president of French Polynesia
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Pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was elected president of French Polynesia for the second time on Thursday, less than two weeks after his predecessor lost power in a political rebellion.
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DR Congo's Supreme Court confirms Joseph Kabila as the winner of the country's presidential elections.
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Less than a month into office, Nicolas Sarkozy is being dubbed the "hyper president" for an energetic governing style that appears set to win him a huge parliamentary majority in June legislative elections.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - Retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president Wednesday after winning the country's first-ever direct election for head of state last month.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday hailed the French parliament's adoption of the European Union's new reform treaty as a "success" that restores the country to its rightful place in Europe.
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The candidate of Namibia's ruling Swapo, Hifikepunye Pohamba, is elected president after a landslide victory.
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French President Jacques Chirac (C), flanked by General Secretary of the Francophone association (OIF) Abdou Diouf (L) and Burkina Faso&#039s President Blaise Compaore give a press conference at the end of the ...
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Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the first French president to hold talks with the far-right's  Jean-Marie Le Pen in decades.
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Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali won a landslide victory over three rivals in the presidential elections, officials said Monday.
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Madagascar's Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as president of the Indian Ocean island country.
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The Romanian Humanist Party (PUR)'s president Dan Voiculescu, a member of Alliance between the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and PUR, the winner of the November 28 parliamentary elections, announced on Tuesday ...
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French President Jacques Chirac has congratulated Nicolas Sarkozy on his nomination as president of his ruling party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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Togo's Faure Gnassingbe was formally sworn  in as president on Monday after his father's sudden death,  despite strong condemnation from former colonial power France  and African leaders who branded the succession  unconstitutional.
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Mesdames, Messieurs, France is now open for business. Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency on pledges to open up the economy, and his government is selling one message: Things have changed.
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The first round of voting in France's legislative elections has put the new president's party firmly on the road to controlling Parliament.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, a flamboyant rival to President Chirac, is crowned as head of France's governing party.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has won re-election for a second term, poll officials say.