Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra did and still do.

Mir Hossein Moussavi, a former prime minister, and Abdullah Nouri, a former interior minister, are also expected to enter the race.

Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua.

A dozen prominent opposition politicians have been sentenced to prison, including former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the former interior minister, Yuri Lutsenko.

The assassination of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir ( born 4 October 1942) is a former politician and the former Prime Minister of Iceland.

His son, Matti Vanhanen, is a former Prime Minister of Finland.

Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir belonged to that category.

Former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar was the most radical European reformer.

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, is now a blogger.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Ikeda, former minister of MITI, the Japanese government undertook an ambitious income doubling plan.

Former chief of staff and defense minister Shaul Mufaz provides the security expertise.

The populist billionaire and former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, appeared to be different.

As you have noted, Mr. President, Lebanon has lost its former Prime Minister.

She is a former Minister of Social Affairs and Women Issues in Cameroon.

The Minister of National Defence and Former Combatants, a former army chief of staff, is not a member of a political party.

LONDON Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has many positive attributes, including great charm.

It was founded in 1993 by Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon.

As members know, Lebanon has also just violently lost former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Japan s former Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and Australia s former premier, Kevin Rudd, both championed regionalism from early in their short time in office.

As of this writing, only two presidential candidates have declared themselves former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi.

According to Reuters, the administrative court fined Mubarak 200 million pounds, former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif 40 million pounds, and former interior minister Habib al Adly 300 million pounds for their damage to the national economy.

Two listed individuals have registered as candidates for the 18 September parliamentary elections Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar, the former Taliban deputy (security) minister of interior affairs, and Abdul Wakil Mutawakil, the former Taliban minister for foreign affairs.

So French President Nicholas Sarkozy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appear to think.

Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister and now an opposition critic, was inherited from Yeltsin.

Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland s former finance minister and central bank governor, is also a credible candidate.

The former culture minister, Jack Lang, said the American system of justice had run amok.

All eyes turned to Syria following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

This approach has been supported by luminaries such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Mir Hussein Mousavi, former Prime Minister, launches an internet TV in Iran's presidential election battle.

The amount of cables addressed to the former Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal is huge.

His father and grandfather were former politicians who were lower house members, and also, former prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa is a distant relative of his.

It was 30 years ago that former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, the father of today s prime minister, signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty with China.

Exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sought to return, but was promptly sent back into exile.

Gusmão s main rival, Mari Alkatiri, Fretilin s leader and a former prime minister, denounced Ramos Horta s decision.

LONDON I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, Australia s former prime minister.

Thus, former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Pyongyang in October 2009 and promised generous economic aid.

We saw this a few weeks ago, when former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.

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He is the former Secretary General of the Commonwealth and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria.

The Kosovar people showed remarkable political maturity when former Prime Minister Haradinaj was indicted and surrendered voluntarily to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has brought Pakistan s state of turmoil to new heights.

Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and Labor party leader, appeals to many voters from the left.

On the right is Bibi Netanyahu, a former prime minister and leader of Sharon s old Likud party.

The university is named after Hassan Abbaspour, former Iranian Minister of Energy who was killed in 1981.