King for life in plea to abdicate
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CAMBODIA&#39;S King Norodom Sihanouk yesterday issued a plea to be allowed to retire, creating constitutional confusion and prompting the country&#39;s leaders to vow to beg him to remain on the throne.
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In a letter read on radio and TV and posted on his website, he said he was too ill to continue. His son, Prince Ranariddh, has travelled to Beijing, where the king is receiving medical treatment, to ask him to reconsider.
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Cambodia&#39;s Prince Norodom Ranariddh left on Saturday for Beijing to implore his ailing father, the king, to reverse his decision to abdicate.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Australia's  head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Australia can become  a republic, said one of the country's leading politicians and  former head of the republican movement.
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The family of a British hostage  threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to  Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers'  demands and save his life.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.
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The career of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia has been a bewildering trail of political twists and expedient turns. Now the man they call the &#39;mercurial monarch&#39; has announced his abdication.
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley have made an appeal to his kidnappers not to harm him, as the deadline for their demands approaches.
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Efforts to persuade aging and ailing Norodom Sihanouk to reverse his decision to abdicate the Cambodian throne mounted Friday.
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Cambodiaâs King Norodom Sihanouk declared today that his son, Prince Norodom Sihamoni, is ready to accept the crown to resolve a political crisis triggered last week when the 81-year-old monarch announced he would abdicate.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  - Efforts to persuade aging  and ailing Norodom Sihanouk to reverse his decision to abdicate  the Cambodian throne mounted Friday.
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The Church of England will never soften its opposition to euthanasia, even in the case of the terminally ill who clearly wish to die, the head of the worldwide Anglican church has said.
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Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, now 83, sick and dismayed at political infighting in his impoverished country as it tries to recover from the &quot;Killing Fields&quot; era, wants to give up his throne.
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King Norodom Sihanouk said on  Tuesday his decision to abdicate gave Cambodia a chance to  choose a successor in his lifetime and thus avoid another  bloodbath.
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By KER MUNTHIT Associated Press Writer PHNOM PENH, Cambodia . Cambodians were shocked and worried when revered King Norodom Sihanouk announced his decision last week to abdicate after six decades at the
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia&#39;s King Norodom Sihanouk has announced his abdication, the head of the National Assembly said Thursday.
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Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk offered to abdicate on Thursday, sick and dismayed at political infighting in his impoverished country as it struggles to recover from the &quot;Killing Fields&quot; era.