Barak wins leadership of Israel's Labor Party
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Wednesday, putting him in an influential position to decide the fate of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his coalition government.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak took over as defense minister on Tuesday, an appointment that restored the job to a man with solid defense credentials at a time of heightened security concerns on Israel's southern and northern borders.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a key victory today as his cabinet easily approved a plan to compensate Jewish settlers who would be uprooted from the Gaza Strip.
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Final election results Thursday showed John Howard becoming Australia's first prime minister in 24 years to control both houses of parliament, clearing the way for the conservative leader to push through reforms including relaxing media ownership laws.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and veteran Labor Party leader Shimon Peres agreed Thursday on a title for Peres, paving the way for the establishment of the coalition government.
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Last week, for the first time since Ehud Barak defeated Benjamin Netanyahu in the contest for prime minister, the left wing was radiant with joy.
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India's ruling Congress party won power  in a giant state on Saturday, a victory that would boost the  fortunes of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's party and strengthen  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's minority national coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has agreed to a possible alliance with the opposition Labour group. The vote averts a snap election and strengthens Mr Sharon&#39;s controversial Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Togo's governing RPT party wins a majority of seats in parliamentary elections, the electoral commission says.
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Former prime minister Ehud Barak was sworn in as Israel's defense minister on Monday in a cabinet shakeup rushed through in response to violence in Gaza.
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Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his support Tuesday to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on his plan to invite the Labor Party into a unity government, Ha&#39;aretz reported, citing an aide of Sharon.
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WHAT HAPPENED: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party approves inviting the dovish Labor Party into a coalition government.
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SYDNEY, Australia Australian Labor Party members say Mark Latham should keep leading the group despite losing yesterday&#39;s election to the incumbent prime minister.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meeting with members of his Likud Party last week. The partyâs Central Committee has authorized him to form a coalition cabinet with Labor.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked virtually assured of reelection as leader of the rightist Likud party after it gave him a key vote of confidence on Tuesday.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the primary for head of Israel's dovish Labor Party, officials said early Wednesday, in a race between two ex-military officers who had both called on Israel's current leader to resign.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the new chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, won a vital vote on Thursday evening from the Palestinians&#39; dominant political faction approving