The UAE names new energy minister
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has named Mohammed bin Al Dhaen Al Hamili oil minister, succeeding Obeid bin Saif Al Nasseri in a cabinet reshuffle approved by Supreme Council
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ISLAMABAD: Former Federal Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that the new cabinet of Prime Minister-elect Shaukat Aziz would be chosen by Wednesday.
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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential elections.
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Following the death on Monday of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum will serve as interim leader of the country that has become an international innovator
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Israel's new Labour Party chief and former PM, Ehud Barak, is appointed the country's defence minister.
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President Bush nominates top Treasury Department official Sam Bodman to be the next US energy secretary.
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In a surprise move, President Bush yesterday tapped a deputy Treasury secretary and former chemical-engineering professor with limited energy-policy expertise to be his new energy secretary.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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Spanish energy company Gas Natural said it had appointed Savaldor Gabarro as chairman to replace Antonio Brufau, who is replacing Alfonso Cortina at the country's leading energy group Repsol YPF.
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Sheikh Zayed's eldest son replaces him as president of the United Arab Emirates on the day of the funeral.
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Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Horta has been named as East Timor&#039;s new prime minister, President Xanana Gusmao announced, ending weeks of political uncertainty in the nation.
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The man widely tipped to be named this week as East Timor&#039;s new premier, Jose Ramos-Horta, has taken charge of a meeting of ministers to plot the tiny nation&#039;s route from crisis.
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President Lahoud is set to name a new prime minister following Rafiq Hariri's shock departure on Wednesday.
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Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been chosen as president of the United Arab Emirates, succeeding his father, who
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BEIRUT, Lebanon -- President Emile Lahoud appointed staunchly pro-Syrian politician Omar Karami as prime minister on Thursday and asked him to form the next government, replacing billionaire Rafik Hariri in a move that consolidates Syria&#39;s hold on
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President Bush on Friday nominated a  senior Treasury Department official to be the next U.S. Energy  Secretary, a surprise choice of a former chemical engineer with  relatively little energy experience.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she will appoint a special envoy for energy issues to deal with the use of oil and gas for political means, particularly in Central Asia.