Italy: Justice Minister offers to resign
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"I am resigning because between the love of my family and that of power, I choose the former."  Italy's justice minister offered his resignation Wednesday after the start of a corruption investigation involving his wife, but Premier Romano Prodi quickly rejected it. via The Oregonian
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he twice offered to quit over the Iraqi prison abuse scandal.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi handed  his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday  after losing a confidence vote in the Senate.
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Klaus Zumwinkel has offered his resignation following an alleged tax probe.
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Italy's prime minister resigned Wednesday after his center-left government Wednesday lost a key foreign policy vote.Comment
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An Italian prosecutor on Friday asked a  court to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for  bribing judges as the prime minister's four-year corruption  trial reached its closing stages.
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Romano Prodi expected to resign tonight after a confidence vote in parliament
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Italy's president has asked Romano ProdiA to stay on as prime minister and face a new vote of confidence in parliament, rejecting his resignation announced earlier in the week.Comment
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South Korea's army chief  offers to resign, amid growing unease over an investigation into a promotions scandal.
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Italy's ex-justice minister confirms he will not rejoin the the governing coalition and calls for early elections.
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Argentina's economy minister offers her resignation over $64,000 discovered in her office toilet.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has handed in his resignation after his fragile centre left coalition lost a crucial parliament vote.Comment
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ROME - 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 ...Comment
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Italy's ex-justice minister confirms he will not rejoin the governing coalition and calls for early elections.
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The president of the 2006 Winter Games in Turin is to offer his resignation because he no longer has the support of the Italian government.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's  government is "inclined to" present its resignation to the  president following a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign  policy, a center-left political source said on Wednesday.
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"I will not negotiate, I will not discuss. It's over."  A key ally of Premier Romano Prodi pulled his party from the Cabinet on Monday amid a corruption scandal, sending the center-left governing coalition scrambling to keep the administration from falling.Prodi, who presided at strategy talks Monday night, planned to address Parliament about the crisis Tuesday. Taking a break from the talks, a senator in Prodi's coalition hinted to reporters that the premier could call for a confidence vote by lawmakers.Prodi 'will put the crisis in the hands of Parliament,' said Sen. Roberto Manzione. Read more