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Jan 2004.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Three veteran Commonwealth prime minister stepped dawn-Jean Chretien of Canada after 10 years, Anerood Junauth of Mauritius after total of 16, and Mohamad Mahathir of Malaysia after 22. The new faces were Paul Martin, Paul Berenger and Abdullah Badawi. India Pakistan edged towards talking peace, but in Sri Lanka the peace process halted when the president suspended parliament and clashed head-on with her prime minister. Serious rioting hit the Maldives.The sutting dowan of the only independent daily newspaper in Zimbabwe came when new 1000 dollar notes would not even buy aloaf of bread. In Lodon a judge turned dowan the claim for compensation by the long-evicted islanders of Diego Garcia.
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