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The government suffered a stunning setback in the March general elections when a three-party opposition alliance led by Anwar won five of Malaysia's 13 states and left the government with less than a two-thirds majority in parliament.

A1 Liberals Lose Ground in Kuwait Kuwaiti liberals suffered a stunning setback in weekend parliamentary elections, with Islamic traditionalists, both Sunni and Shiite, taking more than a third of the seats, according to early unofficial results.

Kuwaiti liberals, hopeful that the downfall of Saddam Hussein would strengthen their efforts at modernization, suffered a stunning setback in weekend Parliamentary elections, with traditionalists winning a sweeping victory.

The announcement marked the beginning of a dramatic and public reversal in Manila's historic foreign policy alignment and represented a stunning setback in Washington's efforts to build a regional coalition backstopped by American military power to contain Chinese expansionism in the South and East China Seas.

In August 2009, the judge ruled Bout could not be extradited in a stunning setback to the US embassy and its "Bout team".

President Obama's ambitious trade agenda unraveled Friday in a stunning setback delivered by his own party as the House rejected an important piece of a package aimed at fast-tracking a controversial trade pact he is pursuing with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.

The meticulously planned operation, which followed the successful infiltration of the FARC by military intelligence agents, represented a stunning setback for the rebels, who lost their highest-profile captives in Betancourt and three American defense contractors whom they had held since 2003.

Representative Marcia Fudge, a Cleveland Democrat, called the ruling last year "a stunning setback".

With 57 going to the nine-month-old Movement for Democratic Change, it was a stunning setback for Mr. Mugabe.

But Emanuel's desperation campaign signalled a stunning setback for a political celebrity who has had to redirect nearly all his campaign energy, including approximately $15m in attack ads and direct mail literature, against Garcia.

The verdict was a stunning setback for prosecutors, who had argued that the defendant, Robert Ellis, was one of two men who fired their weapons at Officer Timoshenko and his partner, Officer Herman Yan, during a traffic stop in the early-morning hours of July 9 , 2007