Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the party Syriza, hopes to ride a tide of anti-austerity sentiment to break from four decades of ossified two-party government in Greece.

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In Greece, Leftist Party, Syriza, Upends Politics

The ouster of Bo Xilai, the party chief in Chongqing, points to possibly the most serious division in the party elite since the leadership upheavals during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

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News Analysis: Bo Xilai’s Ouster Exposes Chinese Fault Lines

China’s official military newspaper has warned soldiers to ignore internet rumours and maintain absolute loyalty to the party, following online rumours of a coup last week.

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China military warned on rumours

Veteran Ulster Unonist Lord Kilclooney delivers a devastating verdict on the party, saying it has “failed to show what it stands for”.

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UUP failed ‘to give leadership’

George Bush Snr formally endorses Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as the party establishment swings behind the former governor.

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Elder Bush endorses Mitt Romney

Plaid Cymru has proven its ability to run local councils, the party’s spring conference will hear on Saturday.

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Plaid ‘has shown it can govern’

Labour MP Eric Joyce has been suspended from the party after he was arrested over allegations of an assault in a House of Commons bar.

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Labour suspends MP over ‘assault’

South African youth leader Julius Malema loses his appeals against the ruling ANC’s decision to suspend him for bringing the party into disrepute.

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ANC youth leader appeal dismissed

Florida Republicans began casting ballots Tuesday, as Newt Gingrich, who lagged far behind in recent polls, tried to stop Mitt Romney’s march to the party’s presidential nomination.

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Florida Polls Open as Gingrich Tries to Galvanize Conservatives

My daughter always wondered why they called it “One Life to Live’’ when almost everyone who died in Llanview returned to the party eventually, looking none the worse for having gone over Iguazu Falls in a canoe, or having spent months in a coma in Kentucky. Read full article > >

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‘One Life to Live’: This time, it’s fatal, as soap opera comes to end

YANGON, Myanmar — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says Myanmar’s government has approved her National League for Democracy to run in upcoming by-elections. Suu Kyi said in an interview at her residence Thursday that the party had been accepted earlier in the day. NLD spokesman Nyan Win also told The Associated Press the party will start accepting new members on Monday. Read full article > >

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Suu Kyi says Myanmar’s government has approved her party to run in elections

Ed Miliband is warned by a shadow minister that Labour could fall into a Tory “trap” of being cast as the party of tax and spend.

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Miliband warned about ‘Tory trap’

North Korea hails Kim Jong-un as “supreme leader of the party, state and army”, a day after the elaborate funeral of his father, Kim Jong-il, in Pyongyang.

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N Korea hails Kim’s son as leader

Republicans competing to be the party’s candidate for the US presidential election next year take part in a debate in Iowa.

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Republican rivals in Iowa debate

Aleksei Navalny has aroused Russians angry over what they say were fraudulent parliamentary elections, rebranding Vladimir V. Putin’s United Russia party as “the party of swindlers and thieves.”

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