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        "msgid": "mahathir-withdraws-resignation-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-06-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Mahathir withdraws resignation",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Mahathir withdraws resignation MALAYSIA: Malaysia's veteran Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, having offered to quit all posts in his party and the ruling coalition, has withdrawn his offer, his deputy Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said on Saturday. \"We took quite a long time. And after that, he agreed that I announce that he will continue to hold his posts,\" Abdullah announced to cheers from his party's annual assembly.",
        "content": "<p>Mahathir withdraws resignation<\/p>\n<p>MALAYSIA: Malaysia's veteran Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad,<br>\nhaving offered to quit all posts in his party and the ruling<br>\ncoalition, has withdrawn his offer, his deputy Abdullah Ahmad<br>\nBadawi said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We took quite a long time. And after that, he agreed that I<br>\nannounce that he will continue to hold his posts,\" Abdullah<br>\nannounced to cheers from his party's annual assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes before, Mahathir was led weeping from the rostrum<br>\nafter making his shock announcement at the end of his United<br>\nMalays National Organization's (UMNO) conference.<\/p>\n<p>\"I would like to take this opportunity to announce my<br>\nresignation from my post as UMNO president and all the posts I<br>\nhold in the party, my resignation as chairman of Barisan Nasional<br>\nand all posts in the Barisan Nasional,\" Mahathir told a stunned<br>\nauditorium, packed with over 2,000 party faithful.<\/p>\n<p>He is Asia's longest-serving elected leader and has ruled<br>\nMalaysia for 21 years, leading the multiracial Barisan Nasional<br>\ncoalition. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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