Dictator&#39;s profile takes dive
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North Korea seems to be softening its rigid personality cult around leader Kim Jong Il, say experts on the reclusive communist state - although they are unsure why.
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coming after last week&#39;s purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt cast doubts over the process. seven-step &quot;roadmap to democracy&quot; unveiled by the ousted prime minister last year.
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BANGKOK: The removal of Myanmarâs PM, architect of a tentative âroadmap to democracy,â has dashed faint chances for an end to military rule and leaves South-East Asiaâs policy of constructive engagement in tatters.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy this week showed he&#39;s not only about political gaffes: He demonstrated he can play politics with the heavyweights when he has to.
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RUMPLED and engaging, in his rhetoric a Middle Eastern strongman, in his stated principles a democrat, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi seemed, when he assumed sovereign power just three months ago, to be the ideal man for his nation&#39;s difficult
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PHNOM PENH: Cambo-dian King Norodom Sihanouk announced his abdication yesterday, sick and dismayed at political infighting in his impoverished country as it struggles to recover from the &quot;Killing Fields&quot; era.
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An Egyptian cleric who says he was  kidnapped by the CIA in Italy and flown to Egypt for torture is  considering a political career in his home country thanks to  the fame the case has brought him.
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FOR those who hoped that the ego had landed after the 2003 Rugby World Cup success, the news that he is resigning from his post as England coach to aim for Sven-Goran Erikssonâs job in football has the foreboding of an embarrassing new chapter for Sir
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Kim Jong Il dials back his personality cult as protest activities pick up.
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has moved out of the non-proliferation regime for over two years now,&quot; he said. the gravity of the (South Korea&#39;s) case,&quot; suspecting US influences behind its stance.
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His philosophy has underpinned China&#39;s opaque and secretive political system and, for this reason, Jiang Zemin&#39;s decision to stand down as army chief three years ahead of schedule marks the real handover of authority.
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A controversial figure takes charges of a State Department advisory panel.
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El-Hadji Diouf is back doing what he appears to do best - spitting on people. Not content with covering a variety of fans with spittle he has now targeted his fellow professionals.
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Li Peng, the former Chinese prime minister dubbed the &quot;Butcher of Beijing&quot; for his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown, is trying to clear his name with a new essay that shifts some of the blame on to his political master.
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They don&#39;t call him the bulldozer for nothing. Our prime minister is a man who, once he has decided on a course of action, puts his head down and pursues it relentlessly - determinedly impervious to the demands of those who would steer him elsewhere.
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The former Panamanian dictator's term ended Sunday. He faces extradition to France or being sent back to Panama.
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BANGKOK -- Really, he is not up to anything. Just doing a little shopping, taking a well-earned rest. What is everybody so worked up about? From China to Hong Kong to Bali, Thailand's deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in September in a coup, has been circling his country, mostly shopping for blazers, handbags, things like that; playing a little ...