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...former television-quiz-show contestant and law student, Samak entered politics in the 1970s, winning a seat in parliament from Bangkok's military-populated Dusit district. He eventually held several Cabinet posts, including deputy premier. Samak's long-stated ambition was to become Prime Minister, but his time at the top was brief. He was disqualified from holding the premiership by the Constitutional Court after just nine months because he had violated the office's prohibition on holding a second job - his popular television cooking show, which he spiced and flavored with pungent political commentary...
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Washington Monday to represent an India emerging as a cosmopolitan economic powerhouse, his Parliament sent an ugly reminder that the world's largest democracy has a dark side: both chambers of India's Parliament have had to be adjourned repeatedly over the past two days amid a furor over leaked findings of a judicial inquiry into the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya...
...Muslim violence that left more than 2,000 people dead. Seventeen years later, leaks from the report of the Liberhan Commission (named for the presiding judge), which allegedly held some current leaders of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) culpable for the destruction of the mosque, provoked scuffles in Parliament, offering a reminder that beneath the "Shining India" image of modernity the BJP had once proclaimed lie some ugly, unresolved communal tensions...
...Liberhan report had been submitted to Prime Minister Singh on June 30, after which the government was required to produce an action-taken report (ATR) within six months before introducing the findings for discussion in Parliament. It had planned to raise the topic before Parliament adjourns in December, but earlier this week, the report was leaked to the media. Furious members of the BJP demanded that the government immediately release the report in Parliament, which Singh authorized Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to do on Tuesday. (See TIME's pictures "The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India...
After weeks of gridlock, Iraq's parliament passed a law that will enable the nation to head to the polls in January for the second time since the constitution was ratified in 2005. The milestone agreement, which was brokered with the help of U.S. and U.N. officials and must be approved by the country's presidential council, paves the way for the scheduled withdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops by August...