Baker to Step Down As Japan Ambassador
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Howard Baker, the former Senate majority leader, plans to step down as ambassador to Japan.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigned Monday only a week after his appointment because of a scandal involving misuse of farm subsidies, the fourth Cabinet minister to step down in the past year.
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Attorney General Lord Goldsmith is to step down after six years in office, he has announced.
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R. Nicholas Burns, the countryâs third-ranking diplomat who has been Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs right-hand man, is retiring for personal reasons.
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White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who has been battling cancer, plans to step down on September 14 and he will be replaced his deputy, Dana Perino, a U.S. official said.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigns after only a week in office, in another blow for PM Shinzo Abe.
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The Marseilles president, Christophe Bouchet, resigned yesterday while former Japan manager Philippe Troussier was in &quot;advanced talks&quot; to replace Jose Anigo as the French club&#39;s coach.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned on Wednesday after less than a year in power, falling victim to a string of scandals that hampered his reform agenda and sent his popularity plummeting.
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The US ambassador here called on Japan Wednesday to maintain support for forces in Afghanistan, saying that ending the mission would hurt its alliance with Washington and send a bad message to the world.
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The US ambassador to the UN is to leave his post when his temporary appointment runs out, officials say.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely viewed as the moderate in an administration dominated by hawks, announced yesterday he will step down as chief US diplomat once a successor is in place.
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Mozilla COO John Lily is taking over for Mitchell Baker, who is stepping down.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will step down in the coming days, the White House announced on Monday, unable to overcome Democratic Senate opposition.
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Japan's defense minister resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, attempting to quell the latest furor plaguing the ruling camp ahead of an election this month.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is considering announcing an end to Japan&#039;s military mission in Iraq ahead of his meeting with US President George W. Bush later this month, the foreign minister said.
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America&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations has quit after less than six months in the job, citing he wants to spend more time with his family.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat, has told ruling party leaders he intends to resign, an official said today.