Leader of governing Brazil party quits
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The president of the governing Workers' Party said Friday he was stepping down in the wake of a corruption scandal that had battered Brazil's president during his re-election campaign.
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced the resignation of his conservative government.
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Interpol head Jackie Selebi quits after being suspended as South African police chief over corruption allegations.
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Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Partyâs Central Committee that ended yesterday.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's largest political party voted on Thursday to join the coalition government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in his second term, giving the former labor leader vital support for his legislative agenda.
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Marcelo Bielsa quit as coach of Argentina&#39;s soccer team less then three weeks after guiding it to the nation&#39;s first Olympic title in 52 years at the Athens Games.
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Though it isn&#39;t certain, it appeared Wednesday a major party member of Brazil&#39;s ruling alliance would leave to pursue 2006 presidential aspirations.
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The leader of Australia's opposition Labor Party announced Tuesday he will quit politics because of ill health.
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Romario, the man who led Brazil to their 1994 World Cup victory, says he&#39;s retiring, Brazilian media reported on Tuesday.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's campaign manager stepped down Wednesday over his alleged involvement in a plot to incriminate a leading opposition politician.
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Fidel Castro stepped down as president after a long illness, according to the official publication of the Cuban Communist Party, ending one of the longest tenures as a head of state.
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Former President Jiang Zemin resigns his post as head of military.
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Marcelo Bielsa resigns as coach of Argentina less than a month after steering the country to Olympic gold.
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The chief of the Organisation of American States, accused of corruption in Costa Rica, quits two weeks into the job.
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By Tiago Pariz and Carmen Munari BRASILIA, Brazil  - A leading centrist party isthreatening to leave Brazil's governing coalition next week ina move that could jeopardize the president's reforms inCongress and pressure him to give it more Cabinet posts.
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The head of the nation's second largest teachers union is stepping down.
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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.