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Merkel elected Germany's first woman chancellor Reuters
BERLIN - Angela Merkel was elected Germany's first woman chancellor on Tuesday in a parliamentary vote that ends months of uncertainty and ushers in a fragile new government with the task of reviving Europe's largest economy.
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Liberia verges on a new day The apparent election of a female `technocrat' might end a ruinous populism, experts say
By Laurie Goering Tribune foreign correspondent Published November 20, 2005
Johnson-Sirleaf, a former banker and United Nations Development Program administrator, has yet to be formally declared Liberia's president-elect. Weah has lodged election fraud charges, which are being investigated. But with the final tally showing Johnson-Sirleaf with 59.4 percent of the vote to Weah's 40.6 percent, she almost certainly will become Africa's first elected female president.
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