Dissidents oust ex-Bangladesh PM Zia as party chief
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Dissidents in Bangladesh's largest political party have ousted former prime minister Khaleda Zia as leader while she is under arrest on corruption charges, officials said Tuesday.
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KARACHI, Dec 21: Pakistan Peoples&#39; Party leader Asif Ali Zardari was arrested after his bail in the Justice Nizam murder case was cancelled on Tuesday.
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Another former minister is detained in Bangladesh as the government says it is stepping up an anti-corruption drive.
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by our Internet desk, 23 August 2004. Tension remains high in Bangladesh following Saturday&#39;s grenade attack on a political rally addressed by the leader of the opposition Awami League, former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed.
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Bangladesh's security forces arrested at least 13 political leaders including eight former ministers in pre-dawn raids, according to officials and reports.
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New charges are announced against former Bangladesh PMs Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.
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BEIJING, Sept. 25 -- The Communist Party chief of Shanghai was fired Monday in the highest-level purge of a Chinese official in more than a decade. Analysts called the dismissal a move by President Hu Jintao to root out corruption and consolidate his own power.
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Lawmakers ousted the powerful leader of the House of Representatives early Tuesday in a vote he alleged was orchestrated by former ally President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo because his son linked her husband to a corruption scandal.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 30 -- Burma's military junta detained two former dissident leaders on Saturday as part of a renewed crackdown on pro-democracy activists that followed anniversary celebrations of Aung San Suu Kyi's political party.
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All five election commissioners in Bangladesh resign after months of protests over alleged vote-rigging.
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Bangladesh's security forces have arrested at least 14 political leaders including nine former ministers in pre-dawn raids, according to officials and reports.
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Police in Bangladesh clash with thousands of opposition supporters outside the prime minister's office.
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Seven people were killed when bombs or grenades exploded as former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed ended her address to a public meeting outside her headquarters on Saturday, police and witnesses said.
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Burma's pime minister has been removed from his post and put under house arrest, accused of corruption, Thai officials say.
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Another Bangladesh ex-minister was arrested while 20 other high-profile political figures were remanded in custody as part of a major anti-corruption crackdown, officials said.
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Bangladesh&#39;s main opposition party says party leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, during an attack on a political rally.
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Police in Bangladesh arrest former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after a raid on her house in Dhaka.