Polish parliament elects speaker
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Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has been elected speaker of the country's parliament.
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Poland&#039;s governing party accepted the resignation Saturday of Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and recommended party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski &amp;#151; the president&#039;s identical twin &amp;#151; to replace him.
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Poland's capital has got its first woman mayor, liberal Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, after voters dealt a blow to the conservative government of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski.Comment
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A pro-business opposition party that wants Poland's troops out of Iraq ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government in parliamentary elections Sunday
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Ukraine's parliament overwhelmingly endorsed Yulia Timoshenko as the country's new prime minister, sealing a dramatic political transformation that swept away the ex-Soviet republic's pro-Russia regime and brought Western-leaning democratic reformers to power.
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The leaders of the Ukrainian parliamentary factions have backed the proposal to call an extraordinary parliamentary session on Saturday, the speaker's press secretary Ihor Storozhuk told journalists on Friday.
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Poles voted on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that could weaken the grip of the conservative Kaczynski twins and bring in a government ready to speed up economic reforms and improve relations with EU allies.
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Socialist Oleksander Moroz was elected  speaker of parliament on Thursday with the help of Ukraine's  opposition, jeopardizing a prospective government coalition  made up of backers of the 2004 "Orange Revolution."
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Poland's centre-right election victors  said on Monday they would seek a broad alliance in parliament  to push through economic reforms and redirect Poland into the  EU mainstream.
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Latvia's parliament elects anti-gay activist Janis Smits as the head of its human rights committee.
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PRAGUE, Oct 25 (IPS) - The change of government in Poland heralds a new  era in its cooperation with the European Union, and changes are  also expected in Warsaw's policies towards both Russia and  the United States.
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From left, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Ukraine&#39;s opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana meet in Kiev, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka addresses lawmakers in the Parliament ahead of the vote of confidence on his government, in Warsaw Friday Oct. 15, 2004.
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BAGHDAD June 11--- Iraq's parliament voted today to oust its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani, a day after one of his bodyguards allegedly roughed up another lawmaker, legislators said.
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Walesa, who was the first president of Communist-free Poland, is the guest speaker during the celebration, which also includes Polish Ambassador Przemyslaw Grudzinski and members of the Polish American ...
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The Ukrainian parliament is expected to confirm Yulia Timoshenko, a pivotal figure in the "orange revolution" that swept President Viktor Yushchenko to power, as the country's prime minister.
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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka won a parliamentary vote of confidence Friday, heading off the prospect of renewed political turmoil in a country that is a key U.S. ally in Iraq and the European Union's largest new member.