Malawi president quits his party
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Malawi's president resigns from the ruling party saying he is fed up of criticism about his crack down on corruption.
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The president of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games has decided to resign saying he no longer has the support of the Italian government.
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The head of Taiwan's main opposition party, Ma Ying-jeou, resigns after fraud charges.
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Viktor Medvedchuk, the chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration and the leader of the Social-Democratic (united) Party, has resigned, Nestor Shufrich, a member of the United Social Democrats Party, ...
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William Kennedy Smith said Monday he has resigned from the humanitarian group he founded while he fights sexual assault allegations leveled by a former employee.
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Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin gives up his last official position as head of the military.
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Macedonian Prime Minister Hari Kostov quit today over disagreements with ethnic Albanian parties in the governing coalition, triggering a government crisis in the ethnically tense Balkan state.
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Malaysian Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dissolves parliament more than a year before its term was due to end.
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Jailed leader Marwan Barghouthi has  decided to quit the Palestinian presidential race, Al Jazeera  television reported on Sunday.
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The Tanzanian prime minister has resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract between his office and a U.S.-based firm, he said on Thursday.
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Interpol head Jackie Selebi quits after being suspended as South African police chief over corruption allegations.
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra quit as head of his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party on Tuesday, signaling the de facto collapse of a political machine that had dominated the country until last month's coup.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav resigned on Friday, a day after admitting to sex crimes against women employees in a case that has brought unprecedented disgrace on an Israeli head of state.
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Thailand's deposed premier resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from London on Tuesday, after more than 200 colleagues quit the organization in the wake of a military coup.
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The leader of New Zealand's main opposition party, Don Brash, quits after weeks of mounting speculation.
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The Kenyan anti-corruption supremo steps down just days after the government was accused of "massive looting".
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The new head of the ruling political party in France has resigned his post as finance minister, one day after taking over the party.