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...policy conditions. Argentine President Nestor Kirchner accuses the IMF of causing many of his nation's economic woes. In the Ivory Coast, it's the U.N. that is the focus of government wrath. Following a recommendation last week by a U.N.-backed international working group that the Ivorian parliament?which is dominated by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo?be dissolved, more than 300 U.N. peacekeepers were forced to pull out of bases in the west of the country after they were attacked by armed groups loyal to Gbagbo. In the main city of Abidjan, protesters surrounded the U.N. headquarters...
...convince some key rebel groups that unless the Sunni minority voted, the elections would enhance the power of Kurdish and religious Shi'ite parties, some of which have ties to Iran. (Election results released last week showed that Sunni Arab parties will hold 55 seats in the new parliament, up from 17 in the previous one.) Abu Noor al-Iraqi, a leader of the Unified Leadership of Mujahedin, a new amalgam of four nationalist guerrilla outfits, tells TIME that "when al-Zarqawi's group threatened to attack the polling centers, we stood against them...
Left-wing members of Mongolia’s parliament ousted a Harvard alum from his post as prime minister last week. A master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government didn’t save Tsakhia Elbegdorj from being booted out of office by the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP...
...MPRP ministers in Elbegdorj’s 17-member cabinet walked out last week, and the country’s parliament, known as the Grand Hural, voted last Friday to dissolve the government...
MPRP originally had exactly half of the 76 seats in parliament. The Democratic Party had just 28, but Elbegdorj ruled as prime minister as part of an agreement with the rival faction...