Malawi’s new leader Joyce Banda sacks her foreign minister, Peter Mutharika, the brother of the late president who had been anointed as his successor.

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Former broadcaster Mike Nesbitt is elected the new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

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The Ulster Unionist Party will elect a new leader on Saturday.

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Ulster Unionists to elect leader

After a boisterous but highly undemocratic contest featuring feuding tycoons, dark rumors of closet communism and a host of scandals over sex, gangsters and an illegal wine cellar, Hong Kong elites on Sunday selected a wealthy, China-backed populist as the new leader of this former British colony . Read full article > >

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A group of electors in Hong Kong choose self-made businessman CY Leung as the city’s new leader, after an unusually turbulent campaign.

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Ballot papers to elect the new leader of Plaid Cymru are sent out to members, with three candidates bidding to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones.

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HONG KONG — Just a month before Hong Kong selects a new leader, the former British colony is experiencing something that Britain never allowed and that China, in charge here since 1997, certainly doesn’t want: a contest for the top job that increasingly resembles a real election. Read full article > >

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‘Underground palace’ roils Hong Kong leadership race

HONG KONG — Just a month before Hong Kong selects a new leader, the former British colony is experiencing something that Britain never allowed and that China, in charge here since 1997, certainly doesn’t want: a contest for the top job that increasingly resembles a real election. Read full article > >

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

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

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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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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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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