THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012
PAGE 3
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
Former Finance Minister wins presidential election
INDIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI The candidate from India's governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in voting for the country's president, a largely ceremonial position.
India's President-elect Pranab Mukherjee greets journalists outside his residence after winning the presidential election in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012.
Election official P.K. Agnihotri said Mukherjee, 76, had received more than twice as many votes as his rival in last Thursday's balloting by national and state legislators.
"I express deep gratitude to the people for electing me to this high office," Mukherjee said. He said he will "justify the people's trust."
The prime minister of India is Congress Manmohan Singh.
GREAT BRITAIN
Murdoch abdicates news company positions
LONDON Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. boards overseeing his Britain newspapers, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.
He also quit from some of the media company's subsidiary boards in the United States.
Murdoch stepped down this past week as a director of NI Group, Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corp.
Investments in the U.K., said Daisy Dunlop, spokeswoman for News Corp.'s British arm, News International. The companies oversee The Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch enters the News Corp. building, in New York. Murdoch has resigned from many of News Corp.'s subsidiary boards.
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