Schroeder lifted by election win
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Monday he is confident of winning Germans over to his reform plans and rebuilding his party&#39;s support after avoiding major new losses in local elections in a traditional stronghold.
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Taiwan's high court cleared presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou of corruption-related charges on Friday, lifting further the chances of a frontrunner who has pledged to improve the economy and mend fences with China.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stepped up the German government's pledge of financial aid to tsunami victims to $674 million US Wednesday as European nations moved to step up help to the devastated region.
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Gerhard Schroeder and his wife Doris have adopted a 3-year-old Russian girl, the leader of Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrat party says.
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BERLIN : Fringe parties including the far-right made strong gains in two former communist eastern states as voters dealt fresh electoral blows to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats amid ire over his economic reforms.
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Voters in the German state of Saarland have delivered another punishing defeat to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's swift and generous response to the Asian tsunami disaster reflected the mood of ordinary Germans at the start of a key election year.
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BERLIN Sept. 5, 2004 - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s party was routed in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programs also boosted a small
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German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a stinging defeat in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, reflecting public anger over his drive to cut into the country's cherished network of social programs.
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Switzerland on Sunday completed a general election which focused on whether the far-right Swiss People's Party would increase its vote share after being accused of racism during a tense campaign.
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Exit polls from two German states show Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s ruling Social Democrats lost significant support in Sunday elections to far right and left wing parties.
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Chancellor Schroeder's SPD loses local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, but avoids a major slump.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder praised changes in Libya as he toured this desert oasis Friday, promoting closer relations and new business opportunities in the first visit by a German head of government to a country once shunned for its support of terrorism.
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Early results of a local election in Germany show the country&#39;s ruling Social Democratic party appears to have avoided a major defeat following a string of recent electoral losses.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stepped up the German government's pledge of financial aid to tsunami victims to $674 million (U.S.) today as European nations moved to step up help to the devastated region.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed  in a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Gerhard  Schroeder to respect the results of any new election in  Ukraine, the German government said on Tuesday in a statement.
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has won the backing of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the line-up of his commission, CCTV reported Thursday.