Sejm Speaker expected to resign later today
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Sejm Speaker and Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) leader JÃ³zef Oleksy is expected to officially announce his resignation as Sejm Speaker.
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SOFIA, Jun 1 (IPS) - Justice Minister Georgi Petkanov announced he will  resign after the weekend because of health reasons, saying  "work at the ministry is extremely hard." Meanwhile, a  rising politician who has staked a claim as an anti-crime  crusader is making his way towards the prime minister's  chair.
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Poland's Prime Minister Marek Belka confirmed that the 2,500 Polish troops in Iraq would be progressively withdrawn starting from January next year and would not stay &quot;an hour longer than needed.&quot;
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U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, embroiled in a sex scandal and yielding to pressure from his fellow Republicans, was expected to announce his resignation on Saturday, a senior party aide said.
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Bosnian Prime Minister Adnan Terzic has announced that he and the Bosnian government will resign. Terzic made the statement to Bosnia private television, BN TV.
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Tony Blair is expected to outline his plans for leaving as he faces a number of resignations from the government.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell will resign, sources said Friday.
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Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman Philip W. Johnston said last night that he plans to step down this winter as the party&#39;s leader after serving four
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U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns is expected to step down in an announcement to be made on Friday, a U.S. official said.
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The Dutch prime minister said Thursday his government will resign after his coalition split over the citizenship case of a Somali-born lawmaker. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said he will tender his resignation to Queen Beatrix on Friday, signaling the collapse of three-year-old government and likely early elections.
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East Timor&#039;s prime minister will likely resign, his spokesman said Wednesday, as the country&#039;s president and members of the beleaguered leader&#039;s own party joined a chorus of people saying he no longer had their trust.
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A US senator who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct is set to resign from the Senate, officials say.
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Roderick R. Paige has informed the White House that he plans to resign from his job as secretary of education next week, and President Bush will accept his decision
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Poland&#39;s defence minister sparked confusion Monday by announcing that the country would pull its troops out of Iraq by the end of next year, only to be contradicted hours later by other top government figures.
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Tony Blair will leave office on July 26,   the Sun newspaper reported in its Wednesday edition, as the   increasingly unpopular prime minister faced growing pressure to   quit from within his own Labour Party.
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Poland&#39;s parliament is widely expected  to pass a motion on Friday triggering an early election pitting  the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against the main,  pro-business opposition party.
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"I don't think he will sign such an agreement"  Poland's prime minister and president clashed Sunday over the future of the country's mission in Iraq, with the premier warning that failure to resolve the dispute could force Warsaw to start withdrawing its 900 soldiers this month.New Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Lech Kaczynski are at odds over how long to continue the mission, although neither is seeking an immediate withdrawal.Tusk wants to keep Polish troops in Iraq until October 2008 at the latest. However, their current mandate expires Dec. 31, and extending the mission until late next year requires the government to present a new mandate that must be approved by parliament and by Kaczynski, the military's commander in chief. Read more