Ukraine minister found shot dead
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The Ukrainian transport minister is found dead with gunshot wounds at his holiday home near Kiev.
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JERUSALEM -- Masked gunmen shot and killed a senior official in the Palestinian intelligence service and four aides yesterday near the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
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A European Union diplomat working in Ivory Coast is killed by an unidentified attacker, officials say.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - The prime minister of  ex-Soviet Georgia was found dead on Thursday in a bizarre gas  poisoning that robs the inexperienced president, Mikhail  Saakashvili, of a steadying hand to help run his turbulent  country.
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A former Ukrainian defense minister who was fired when a stray missile shot down a Russian passenger plane in 2001 got his old job back Friday.
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The prime minister of ex-Soviet Georgia was found dead on Thursday in a bizarre gas poisoning that robs the inexperienced president, Mikhail Saakashvili, of a steadying hand to help run his turbulent country.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Transport Minister Heorhiy Kirpa, alleged by the opposition to have helped engineer voting fraud in Ukraine's presidential elections, apparently committed suicide, an official said Tuesday.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A suspected Islamist zealot shot dead a Pakistani woman provincial government minister on Tuesday because he believed women should not be in politics, officials said.
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A suspect in the slaying of a top Venezuelan prosecutor last week was killed Tuesday in a shootout with police, an official said.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a Sri Lankan minister with a roadside bomb north of the capital on Tuesday, officials said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
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A French diplomat with the European Union in Ivory Coast was shot to death in his home overnight, a spokesman for the French embassy said Wednesday.
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Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was shot dead by apparent assassins Tuesday in Beirut, senior Lebanese government officials said.
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Interior Minister Vasyl Tsushko, a central figure in Ukraine's recent political standoff between the president and prime minister, has suffered a heart attack, a ministry official said Wednesday. She gave no information on his condition.
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Police in Indian-administered Kashmir say suspected militants have shot dead a former junior state minister. Safdar Baig, a leading figure in the state opposition National Conference Party, was shot on Thursday
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Ukrainian authorities opened a criminal  probe on Tuesday into the death of the transport minister,  found with a gunshot wound to the head a day after the  opposition candidate won a controversial election re-run.
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A helicopter carrying Georgia's defense   minister was shot at by rebels from the breakaway region of   South Ossetia, forcing it to make an emergency landing on   Sunday, a military commander said.