Japan's prime minister to resign, official says
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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.
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Ruling party stalwarts in the town of Furukawa in northern Japan are fed up with the string of scandals that have cost Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet five ministers in less than a year, and want the premier to step down.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has  told executives of his ruling coalition he intends to resign,  Japanese media reported on Wednesday.
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The head of South Korea&#39;s governing party has resigned over disclosures that his father collaborated with the Japanese during their occupation more than half a century ago.
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Shinzo Abe, the nationalist leader whose vision of an unapologetically strong Japan sank amid scandals, incompetence and gaffes, said today he would step down.
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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is set to reshuffle his cabinet on Monday in order to gain the leverage to silence critics within his ruling party of his unpopular reform plan.
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TOKYO, Sept. 13 -- The departure of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stunned Japan on Wednesday by announcing that he was quitting after a year in power, appears likely to weaken his party's long hold on political power, embolden an already cocky opposition and stall economic reform.
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Portugal's prime minister says his Social Democratic government will formally resign Monday to defend its honour.
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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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Japanese Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma will step down over his remarks suggesting that the US atomic bombings of Japan were the inevitable way to end World War II, national broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday.
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South Korean Prime Minister Han Myung-sook will resign early next month, an aide said Friday amid media reports that she may run for president.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy on Wednesday, a minister said.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling party has resigned after acknowledging his father was a military police officer for Japan&#39;s occupying forces in Korea.
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The Dutch prime minister said his government would resign Friday after his coalition split over the citizenship case of a Somali-born lawmaker.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized Thursday for stress and exhaustion a day after announcing his resignation, his doctors said, amid speculation health troubles prompted him to step down.
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Japanâs embattled defense minister resigned over his comments suggesting the 1945 atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable.
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet.