Kuwaiti woman minister survives
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Kuwait's only female cabinet minister, Nouria Sbeih, survives a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said. Seven other people were wounded.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A suspected Islamist zealot opposed to women in politics shot dead a Pakistani provincial government minister at a political meeting on Tuesday, officials said.
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Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi seems sure to remain in office, but opposition to the government is growing
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense  minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed  assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the  minister said in comments published on Saturday.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting Iraq&#39;s environment minister killed four of her bodyguards on Tuesday, while a separate blast near the education minister&#39;s convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials said.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting  Iraq's environment minister killed four of her bodyguards on  Tuesday, while a separate blast near the education minister's  convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials  said.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A suspected Islamist zealot shot dead a Pakistani woman provincial government minister on Tuesday because he believed women should not be in politics, officials said.
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A suspected Islamist zealot  opposed to women in politics shot dead a Pakistani provincial  government minister at a political meeting on Tuesday,  officials said.
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The head of Indian Kashmir&#39;s main opposition party, Omar Abdullah, has survived a second assassination bid in a month. Police say seven people were injured when rebels detonated a bomb a few steps away from Mr Abdullah, two of them critically.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a Sri Lankan minister with a roadside bomb north of the capital on Tuesday, officials said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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BEIRUT -- For years, Fuad Saniora was a man of numbers more than rhetoric, as a banker, finance minister, and friend to Rafiq al-Hariri, the billionaire former prime minister assassinated last year. Last week, he stood before a crowd of more than 1,800 women at his barricaded government headquarters, more populist than pragmatist, more agitator than accountant.
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CHILDRENâS minister Margaret Hodge was handcuffed by a Fathers 4 Justice protester yesterday in a major security scare. She was shackled to the demonstrator for 30 minutes as guards struggled to free her.
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Two Israeli policemen died preventing a female suicide bomber from entering a packed Jerusalem bus shelter yesterday, probably saving many other lives.
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A suspected militant leader died of heart failure and not under torture, says Kuwait's interior minister.
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SRINAGAR, IHK : Sep 23 (KMS) - In occupied Kashmir, the puppet Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Saeed escaped unhurt in an attack on the office of the district magistrate in Islamabad, where he was filing his election papers.
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The woman minister at the centre of the Presbyterian gender row in Portadown says she has been very hurt.