Polish minister fired in spy row
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Polish Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska is dismissed amid claims she lied about her communist past.
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Poland headed towards early elections  after conservative Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski fired his  deputy and main coalition partner on Monday over a corruption  investigation.
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A Polish senator who questioned the Nazi  Holocaust has been given a top ceremonial role in parliament,  drawing anger from the party that won Sunday's parliamentary  election.
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WARSAW -- Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski fired his deputy over corruption allegations Monday, throwing the future of Poland's conservative governing coalition into doubt and raising the possibility of early elections.
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Official complaint against work and pensions minister lodged with Westminster watchdog
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko  summoned security ministers on Thursday after his dismissal of  a top judiciary official spurred angry protests by supporters  of his arch-rival, the country&#39;s prime minister.
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LONDON: The British minister under investigation for allegedly fast-tracking a visa for a former lover's nanny was at the centre of a new political storm yesterday over slurs on his government colleagues.
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The president fired Ukraine's top prosecutor Thursday and the interior minister appeared to defy the order, sending dozens of police to surround the prosecutor's building and dramatically raising the stakes in the political chaos in the former Soviet republic.
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The speaker of Poland&#39;s Parliament, Jozef Oleksy, offered to resign on Wednesday, a party spokesman said, after a court said he had worked for the country&#39;s Communist-era secret services.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma sacked his defense minister on Wednesday for failing to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of Soviet-era weapons and ammunition that he said threaten the country's ...
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Ukraine s Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk has resigned amid criticism of the country s military storage and missile fuel disposal facilities.
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Poland's former national security adviser said on Thursday he would sue a European investigator for naming him in a report that accused Poland and Romania of hosting secret CIA prisons for suspected terrorists.
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Mr Lepper has said he is the victim of a smear campaign Polish prosecutors are investigating claims that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper employed a woman on condition that she had sex with him.Comment
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BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fired ministers responsible for dealing with a bird flu crisis and violence in the largely Muslim south yesterday, just months ahead of a general election.
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A British Cabinet minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of 'attacks on individual liberty and on democracy' and said Sunday that relations with Moscow were strained after a former KGB agent was ...Comment
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A day after they forced out Poland's respected minister of defense, the identical twins who run Poland face accusations they have packed the government with inexperienced loyalists _ and damaged the country's ...Comment
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A British minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia and media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death in London of a former KGB spy.