Anoth-er, Muhammad Muham-mad Taib, will be challenged by a field of state chief ministers and cabinet members. (Abdullah is the third incumbent.) And Razaleigh cannot be written off.

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For now, the likely scenario is a cabinet reshuffle, a replacement of some state chief ministers, and the reaffirmation of a future transition to Anwar and Najib.

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PA's 22 ministries and calls on Mr Arafat to sack his existing cabinet and bring criminal charges against two ministers (including his chief negotiator, Nabil Shaath).

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More than 20 people have now been arrested - many of them high-ranking officials, including former cabinet ministers, Tbilisi's deputy mayor and the army's chief of staff.

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