Jamaica ousts female PM: early results
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Jamaica's main opposition party won a close election Monday, ousting the country's first woman prime minister and ending her party's nearly 20-year-old hold on power, according to preliminary results.
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PM-designate Omar Karameh forms a new 30-member cabinet which includes women for the first time.
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Jamaica's embattled police commissioner resigned following last year's record number of homicides in the Caribbean country, authorities said.
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Â· Bombing reduces majority of ruling coalition to threeÂ· Country in further turmoil ahead of elections
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The opposition Jamaica Labour Party appeared to win power by a narrow margin on Monday, ending an 18-year reign by the ruling People's National Party, which served notice it would likely challenge the result.
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Â· Christine Lagarde will oversee Â11bn in tax cuts  Â· Black feminist appointed to deal with troubled cities
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Likely cabinet reshuffle may shake up politics after former PM and newcomer knock out current leader.
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Hurricane Ivan, one of the most powerful storms to batter the Caribbean, killed at least 16 people in Jamaica, where it wrecked houses and washed away roads on
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Power is shut off on the island of Jamaica as Hurricane Ivan rages above, packing maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 kmph). The main highway leading from Kingston to the eastern
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PAKISTAN&#39;S NATIONAL Assembly has elected Shaukat Aziz as the countryâs new prime minister, replacing interim Prime Minister Chaudhri Shujaat, who stepped in when Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigned June 28.
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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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Jamaica went to the polls yesterday after a tight election campaign battered by a hurricane, political violence and economic woes.
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Fiji's president dissolved parliament on Tuesday and sanctioned the military to remove embattled Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, said New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who immediately imposed sanctions against Fiji's military.
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India chose its first female president Saturday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
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United States national team coach Bruce Arena was planning for the future last night. But Arena was also playing to win, the US's 1-1 tie with Jamaica eliminating the Reggae Boyz from World Cup qualifying.
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The perception that Jamaica is corrupt has worsened in the past year, pushing its ranking on Transparency International&#39;s Corruption Perception index to 74 out of 146 countries, down 17 places from its 2003 position.
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A victory by a Thai opposition candidate in the race for Bangkok governor is a blow to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his party ahead of national polls early next year, analysts said.