Israel's Barak claims victory in Labour Party race
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak claimed victory on Wednesday in the leadership race for Israel's Labour Party over his challenger, former intelligence chief Ami Ayalon.
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Mahmoud Abbas's victory Sunday gives new impetus to negotiation with Israel.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, furthering an unlikely political comeback, was elected Tuesday to head the Labor Party.
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Opposition Labor Party leader Mark Latham has conceded defeat in Australia&#39;s general elections and congratulated Prime Minister John Howard for winning a fourth consecutive term in office.
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India's ruling Congress party won power  in a giant state on Saturday, a victory that will boost the  fortunes of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's party and strengthen  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's minority national coalition.
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Israel's leader wins a historic vote to withdraw settlers, but now faces a revolt in his own party.
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Former premiers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres are tapped for Labor chief, president.
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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 leading a close race for the leadership of Israel's Labor Party on Tuesday, a television exit poll showed.
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Labor Party members cast ballots Monday for their leader, a contest that could have serious implications for the makeup of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's governing coalition and his own political survival.
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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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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko claimed victory on Monday in a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing alliance with the Labour Party, warning that failure to do so would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan. Internal polls predict victory for Sharon in a crucial ballot by the rightist Likud's Central Committee on whether to allow him to open talks with center-left Labour on joining a unity coalition to shore up his shattered government.
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Jamaica's electoral office on Thursday confirmed the Labor Party's victory in a close election, sealing its return to power after 18 years in opposition.
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JERUSALEM, May 29 -- Israel's Labor Party on Monday ousted Amir Peretz, its populist leader sharply criticized for his role as defense minister during last summer's Lebanon war, in a primary election with implications for the durability of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's strained governing coalition.
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Israel's new Labour Party chief and former PM, Ehud Barak, is appointed the country's defence minister.
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President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party won a majority of seats in elections for Egypt's upper house of parliament, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.