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...Prime Minister and longtime No. 2 in the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), stepped into the top slot as chairman. He shares authority with another Old Guard moderate, current Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, 67, who will continue to run day-to-day government operations. And as Palestinian basic law dictates, Parliament speaker Rauhi Fattuh, 55, a largely powerless functionary, was named caretaker President until elections can be held...
...muscular assertiveness to fix Iraq , bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians and keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. That's an irony on which both Chirac and Blair could agree. - By J.F.O. McAllister The Hunt Is Over BRITAIN Ending a long-running, acrimonious debate, Parliament voted to ban all hunting with dogs starting in February. The House of Commons invoked the Parliament Act, a rarely used veto, to overrule opposition from the upper House of Lords. The ban applies to England and Wales. Fresh Questions EUROPEAN UNION Just as the European Parliament finally approved Commission President José Manuel Barroso...
...reason I was chosen was that I had been in Parliament in England, so it was thought that I was a natural to be in this position,” he says...
...Over the years the Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair. The building was occupied by a succession of nightclubs, bars and squatters until 2002, when the city parliament, spurred by local artists, earmarked $993,000 to renovate the landmark and reopen it as an informal Dadaist venue...
...First Step LITHUANIA Parliament voted to ratify the new E.U. constitution, making Lithuania the first country to approve the charter, due to come into force in 2007. All 25 member states must approve the constitution...