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...Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, two Americans assigned to the U.S. Embassy, and a Vietnamese woman. "The target was the Marriott," Rehman Malik, the Interior Ministry chief, told a packed news conference in the gloom-filled Pakistani capital. Contradicting earlier reports that the original target had been the nearby parliament building, where newly-elected President Asif Ali Zardari had earlier made his inaugural address, Malik said the bombers had targeted an "international chain" in search of "international attention...
...With cabinet members loyal to Mbeki likely also to resign, analysts predict that parliament would most likely convene to elect a caretaker government until elections can be held next year. Some suggested that Zuma, who is not a member of parliament, would not serve in a transitional administration and would most likely assume power only after the elections. Although Mbeki has been a lame duck ever since Zuma wrested the ANC leadership from him at last December's party leadership conference, Saturday's move to accelerate Mbeki's ouster has raised fears of growing instability in Africa's largest economy...
...days ahead, the new party head will try to lock up support from Kadima's current coalition partners - the dovish Labor Party, a group representing pensions and the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party - which could give her a slim majority in the 120-seat Knesset, or Israeli parliament. But Shas is making demands on Livni, such as pushing for an increase in child allowance (ultra-Orthodox families tend to be large) and making state education more religious. If Livni bends to Shas' demands, Labourites are threatening to walk out of her future coalition. But if she succeeds, she will become Israel...
...just what the thousands of protesters camped out at Thailand's leadership compound have been demanding since they besieged Government House three weeks ago. On September 17, Thailand's parliament elected Somchai Wongsawat as the country's new Prime Minister, replacing embattled political veteran Samak Sundaravej, who only served in the top post for just over six months...
...actually wants to rule Thailand is less clear. In spite of the fact that the group uses the word "democracy" in its name, the PAD backs a political system in which an elected parliament could be replaced by one that is partly appointed. Some PAD leaders have advocated what they call a "People's Revolutionary Government," though there's little consensus among the PAD's disparate factions - which include labor activists, ethnic Chinese businessmen and staunch royalists - as to how such a government should come to power or what it might do on a day-to-day basis...