North Korea calls on the country to defend the new leader, Kim Jong-un, to the death, in a New Year’s message released by state media.

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N Korea urges Kim Jong-un loyalty

The new leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, is formally named supreme commander of the country’s army, state media say, days after his father’s funeral.

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Kim Jong-un named army commander

South Belfast MP and MLA Alasdair McDonnell is elected the new leader of the SDLP.

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McDonnell elected new SDLP leader

Vote counting is under way in the contest to determine the new leader of the Scottish Conservative Party.

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New Scots Tory leader to be named

Ayman al-Zawahiri is appointed al-Qaeda’s new leader following Osama Bin Laden’s death, a statement issued by the organisation’s general command says.

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Zawahiri ‘becomes al-Qaeda chief’

Germany’s finance minister on Saturday added to a chorus of calls for France’s Christine Lagarde to become a new leader of the International Monetary Fund.

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Germany Voices Support for Lagarde’s IMF Bid

The Hezbollah-backed candidate for Lebanon’s prime minister, Najib Miqati, is poised to take over the country’s government, sparking widespread protests throughout the country. The new leader could prove a problem to the U.S., which had supported the…

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Hezbollah Picks PM in Lebanon

Profile of Marine Le Pen, new leader of France’s National Front

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In father’s footsteps

With a new leader, the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up arrests of gang members.

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Gang Activity Now a Focus for Immigration Agents

No one can accuse her of being too quick to throw in the towel. After Democrats took a beating at the polls Tuesday, some in the party are calling for a new leader in the House, but current House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi may make another bid for a…

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Pelosi to Lead Minority Dems?

The new leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, had his first big test in the House of Commons today – a face to face clash with David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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Miliband v Cameron: First PMQ clash

Labour’s new leader Ed Miliband opposes coalition “unfair” plans to axe child benefit for higher rate taxpayers, saying all families should be supported.

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Miliband: Don’t cut child benefit

Labour’s new leader admits that his predecessors may have interfered too much in the workings of the party in Scotland.

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Scots Labour ‘can set direction’

Tensions within the Labour Party, about the Iraq war, were on show again, as new leader Ed Miliband declared that the decision to invade had been wrong.

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Read his lips – what did David say?

Labour’s new leader Ed Miliband has said that going to war in Iraq was “wrong”.

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Iraq war wrong, says Ed Miliband