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...minute he was being hailed as a friend in the fight against terrorism, a defender of democracy; the next, he was being attacked as a dictator who could tear a nation apart. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf was in London today, reassuring British Prime Minster Gordon Brown that his home country's parliamentary elections next month would be free and fair. But at a press conference an hour later, Imran Khan, ex-cricket legend and head of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, warned that if Musharraf's party wins the majority on February 18, the world will witness protests...
...only ran into the school to escape from police - freed the children and turned themselves in to the tribal elders who were acting as negotiators. Brown might have seen the peaceful outcome as either an omen or perhaps real-world proof that Musharraf is, in the words of the prime minister, "a key ally in combating terrorism and extremism...
...Hariri, a former Lebanese Prime Minister who opposed Syrian dominance of Lebanon, was killed in a massive truck bomb blast in February 2005. His death, which many Lebanese blamed on Syria, sparked protests that compelled Damascus to withdraw its troops from Lebanon two months later. Since then, Syria's critics in Lebanon accuse Damascus of seeking to reimpose its hegemony over Lebanon through assassinations and intimidation. Syria denies any involvement in Hariri's death and the subsequent assassinations...
This is how an Italian government ends. One-by-one, each Senator was required to say out loud whether he or she wanted the center-left government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi to stand or fall. It was the final evening act in a day's worth of high and low drama in the ornate chambers of the Italian Senate on Thursday. There were bombastic speeches by party members defying their leaders' orders on which way to vote. Former Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, who'd brought on the government crisis by yanking his support from Prodi, choked...
...individual oral vote on Thursday. After the vote, Prodi submitted his resignation to President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, who now has the task of either searching for Parliamentary support for a bipartisan caretaker government or calling snap elections. Berlusconi, his eyes on a chance to return to the Prime Minister's office, has demanded an immediate election...