Hong Kong leader Tsang sworn in
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China's president swears in Hong Kong's chief executive, as the territory marks 10 years since its handover.
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HONG KONG At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand was being touted as the new informal leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as  Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a  ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense  Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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Moscow, Oct 5 (PTI) Major General Alu Alkhanov was today sworn-in as the President of Chechnya amid unprecedented security, nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated.
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Pakistan&#39;s economic czar Shaukat Aziz was sworn in as prime minister Saturday and said his government&#39;s greatest challenge would be combatting terrorism and maintaining law and order.
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Retired Gen. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia&#39;s sixth president on Wednesday after winning the country&#39;s first-ever direct elections for head of state last month.
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With security at its highest level since elections in October, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president in Kabul.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as Afghanistan&#39;s first elected president in a ceremony attended by several foreign dignitaries, including US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld, report agencies.
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Hamid Karzai was due to be sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected President on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.
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LOME, Togo -- Faure Gnassingbe was formally sworn in as president of Togo yesterday 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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Retired army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia&#39;s 6th president for a five-year term by the People&#39;s Consultative Assembly at the parliament building here Wednesday.
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Pakistanâs former Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, a close ally of President General Pervez Musharraf, was sworn in as prime minister today, a day after parliament elected him as premier despite an opposition boycott of the vote.
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The late president's son is sworn in in Togo amid international concern at what some say was a "coup".
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Liberal opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as Ukrainian president on Sunday after weeks of political turmoil.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Viktor Yushchenko was sworn in as president of Ukraine on Sunday, calling his inauguration "a victory of freedom over tyranny," two months after massive protests over his loss in a fraud-plagued election plunged the ex-Soviet republic into political crisis.
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Pakistan&#39;s economic tsar Shaukat Aziz has been sworn in as Prime Minister and says his Government&#39;s greatest challenge will be combating terrorism and maintaining law and order.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in today as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, three years after American-backed resistance fighters swept the Taliban government from power.