Chavez appoints new vice president
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President Hugo Chavez shuffled his Cabinet on Thursday, naming a retired military officer as vice president and other changes aimed at tackling corruption and inefficiencies in his socialist government.
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President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday said Venezuela will summon the U.S. ambassador to issue a diplomatic protest after the foreign minister was temporarily detained by authorities at a New York airport.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffled key members of his government, naming as foreign minister the current head of Venezuela's state-owned oil company and handing the oil minister the helm of the company.
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President Hugo Chavez' deputy welcomes a call by the American administration for improved ties with Venezuela.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai has named a new Cabinet, sacking the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nationâs first democratically elected president.
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Afghanistanâs new cabinet was being sworn in today, a day after Hamid Karzai chose its members in his first major decision since his inauguration this month as the nationâs first democratically elected president.
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Vice Premier Shimon Peres announced his candidacy Wednesday for president of Israel, an office tarnished by rape and other sexual misconduct charges against its current occupant, Moshe Katsav.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former U.S. Trade Representative, as the new president for the World Bank to replace Paul Wolfowitz, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO Chicago-based Tribune Company has named publishing veteran Vincent Casanova as the new vice president for circulation. Casanova will be responsible for guiding the overall circulation marketing, sales
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America&#39;s Roman Catholic bishops chose Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., as their new president Monday and elected Chicago Cardinal Francis George vice president.
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HARARE, 6 December (IRIN) - Joyce Mujuru was sworn in as Zimbabwe&#39;s first woman vice president on Monday. Her path to the vice presidency was cleared by a ZANU-PF congress resolution at the weekend, which
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Guinea's president has agreed to appoint a new prime minister amenable to the West African country's powerful union chiefs in an attempt to end a crippling strike and simmering unrest that has killed scores of people this year.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez named Ali Rodriguez, chief of the state-run oil company PDVSA, as the country&#39;s new foreign minister, local media quoted government sources as saying on Sunday.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez names former state oil company boss Ali Rodriguez as his new foreign minister.
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President Hugo Chavez is set to assume unbridled powers to remake Venezuelan society as the National Assembly prepares to grant him authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias left here Saturday afternoon for Jinan to start the second leg of his five-day China tour in east China&#39;s Shandong Province.
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The World Bank confirms that former US diplomat Robert Zoellick will become its new president.