Nigeria's ruling party picks Yar'Adua as 2007 presidential candidate
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Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chosen Umaru Yar'Adua, governor of the northern Katsina State, as its candidate for the April 2007 presidential election.
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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti has decided to run for the Palestinian presidency as an independent candidate to replace late Yasser Arafat, one of his associates said Thursday.
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Nigeria's ruling party suspends Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for three months over corruption allegations.
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The election of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is upheld in a court ruling ending more than a year of uncertainty.
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Japan's ruling party was poised on Sunday to pick Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian neighbors, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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Yasuo Fukuda, known for building consensus behind the scenes, was chosen by Japanâs governing party to be the new prime minister.
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Delegates of Nigeria's ruling party gather in Abuja to pick a candidate to stand in next year's presidential poll.
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Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a Muslim from the north as its candidate for presidential elections that will mark the first transfer of power between elected governments since Nigeria's independence in 1960.
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Japan's ruling party on Sunday picked Yasuo Fukuda, who seeks warmer ties with Asian neighbors, to succeed Shinzo Abe as prime minister in an effort to revive party fortunes and fill a political vacuum.
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KATSINA, Nigeria  - The poor farmers, camel herders and market traders of far northern Katsina state give their governor credit for new roads and schools but few are so impressed that they want him to be Nigeria's next president.
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Umaru Yar'Adua, the candidate of Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2007 presidental elections, has named Goodluck Jonathan, the governor of the southern oil state of Bayelsa as his running mate, a Bayelsa State spokesman has said.
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It has been seven years since Nigeria shed its military rule and ostensibly became a democracy, but the transformation has been slow and stumbling.
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Nigeria's ex-military ruler Gen Babangida, a top candidate in next year's polls, says he is proud of his time in office.
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The newly-elected Romanian president, Traian Basescu, has nominated a senior member of his party, Calin Tariceanu, to the post of prime minister.
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A leading opposition candidate won his party's nomination Saturday for this year's presidential election, the first time an incumbent president has faced a credible challenge in Kenya.
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Nigeria's vice president was suspended by his party for three months because of corruption allegations, preventing him from running for president on the party's ticket, an official said Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed in his inaugural address Tuesday to work urgently to quell rising violence in the volatile Niger Delta, a major source of oil exports to the United States.