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Advisers to Gul Agha Sherzai, the warlord who has retaken control of Kandahar, told reporters Wednesday that seven Taliban leaders had surrendered their weapons and vehicles to Sherzai and sworn loyalty to him. The governor then sent them home to their villages. The next day, Sherzai's men claimed Turabi was the only Talib to surrender. A day later, no one had surrendered--but six (Turabi and five low-level officials) were said to have approached Sherzai and asked for amnesty, which he refused. But he promised not to pursue them as long as they left a forwarding address. They...
...social spending and limits on bank withdrawals brought down the government of President Fernando de la Rua and left 28 dead. Argentina then engaged in the politics of a comic opera, with three men holding the title of head of state in less than two weeks, before Duhalde was sworn...
...thought Argentina, with its five Presidents in two weeks, was confusing. Because of a quirk in New Jersey's constitution, that state will have four Governors in nine days this month. Governor Donald DiFrancesco will step down on Jan. 8, when the new legislature is sworn in. But Governor-elect Jim McGreevey will not take office until Jan. 15. State law decrees that in the interim the post must be filled by the senate president. But because the senate is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, the leader of each party will run the state for three days...
...Islamic Revolution, have earned them three landslide election victories ? but also the ire of hard-liners, who have shut down around 50 liberal newspapers and jailed reformists on charges of "insulting" officials and Islam. Iran Special: The Islamic Republic in Transition ZAMBIA Election Doubts Levy Mwanawasa was sworn in as Zambia's new President despite serious concerns about the fairness of the election. The 10 parties opposed to Mwan-awasa's Movement for Multiparty Democracy alleged that ballot boxes had been stuffed and voters intimidated. Independent election monitors confirmed that they too had doubts about voting figures. The new President...
...will soon be dead. He may be killed by U.S. forces who find his lair, or he may meet his death in the rubble of a bomb blast. Perhaps his end will come at the hands of those closest to him; bin Laden's bodyguards are said to have sworn to kill their leader rather than let him be captured. The precise form of bin Laden's death is of little significance. What matters is that on earth he be denied a martyr's crown...