Kan became finance minister after his predecessor Hirohisa Fujii suddenly resigned, citing ill health.

After suffering massive casualties, the Arabs assumed control of it in 643 AD.

Not surprisingly, all corruption indicators have been rising since Putin took over from Yeltsin, whereas they are falling in most post communist countries.

(Dick Cheney went from being Halliburton s CEO to the US vice presidency.)

The same junta that had assumed power after the fall of Lescot reinstalled itself.

In November 2004, he requested the same parastatal to give 100,000 to the Permanent Mission in New York to meet his expenses. These telephonic directions were not confirmed in writing.

After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin took the reins of power and began an era of renewed fear and terror for Armenians.

The European Union calls upon the King to take early measures to restore democratic freedoms and civil liberties, and to lift the emergency powers he introduced following the takeover of power on 1 February.

Papadopoulos assumed the Presidency on 28 February 2003 after winning a first round majority with 51.51 of the vote.

He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re elected to a second term in March 2011.

The Chairman took the Chair.

With Gaza poised on the brink of civil war, pity poor Mahmoud Abbas, who took over as president of the Palestinian Authority two and a half years ago, after the death of Yasser Arafat.

The Polish right was last in power in 1997, having previously governed in the years 1990 1993.

After Admiral Kolchak took command (August 1916), the Russian fleet mined the exit from the Bosporus, preventing nearly all Ottoman ships from entering the Black Sea.

In the summer of 1997, David was in Monrovia when Charles Taylor was inaugurated President of Liberia following an eight year civil war.

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Now Ukraine s people may face a similar test after supporters of Viktor Yanukovich threatened to seek autonomy should the rightful winner of the country s presidential vote, Viktor Yushchenko, actually become president. Who can doubt that the hand of Russia is behind this?

He soon sponsored the unveiling of a bust of the assassinated Israeli premier Yitzak Rabin at Brasov in Transylvania.

Mr. Mekdad took the Chair.

Gradually, electoral implementation was taken over by Timorese.

Tradition credits him with bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia, following a visit to Jerusalem to meet his father upon reaching adulthood.

When Cornelius moved the show to Los Angeles a year later, his assistant, Clinton Ghent took over the local show until it ended in 1976.

He then assumed the European Union presidency just days after the resounding Irish No to the Lisbon Treaty reduced his role to an exercise in damage control at best.

Préval took office in May 2006.

Mr. Díaz Paniagua (Costa Rica) took the Chair.

Later Mr. CHARANASOMBOON (Thailand)

Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, knows that his time is up.

Mr. Martirosyan (Armenia), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Hachani (Tunisia), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Sen (India), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Butagira (Uganda) took the Chair.

Mr. Kazykhanov (Kazakhstan), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Loizaga (Paraguay), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil), Vice President, took the Chair.

Mr. Duarte (Brazil) took the Chair.

Mr. Anshor (Indonesia), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.

Mr. Yañez Barnuevo (Spain) took the chair.

Mr. Swe (Myanmar) took the Chair.

Mr. Kuchinsky (Ukraine), Chairman, took the Chair.

Mr. Sardenberg, Vice President (Brazil), took the Chair.

In 1995, when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was in power, he was arrested after being falsely accused of anti State activities and kept in custody for five days.

President Ould Abdel Aziz is a high ranking military officer, who came to power in August 2008 following a coup that toppled then President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

But they are wrong to think that nothing has changed in the first year of his presidency.

He assumed his current assignment on September 23, 2011.

Mr. Anshor (Indonesia), Vice Chairman, took the Chair.