Colombian Foreign Minister Resigns as Paramilitary Scandal Widens
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 19 -- Colombia's foreign minister resigned on Monday as a growing scandal swept the country's political establishment, linking it to far-right paramilitary groups blamed for thousands of killings and other crimes.
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The Tanzanian prime minister has resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract between his office and a U.S.-based firm, he said on Thursday.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina  - The prime minister of the Serbian half of Bosnia resigned Friday, a day after the U.S. government and Bosnia's top international administrator sanctioned Bosnian Serbs for failing to arrest and hand over war crimes suspects to the UN tribunal.
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Estonian defence minister Margus Hanson resigns after admitting confidential documents were stolen from his home.
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Russia's defense minister has resigned, the country's new prime minister said Tuesday, announcing the departure of his own son-in-law in the beginning of what is expected to be a Cabinet-wide shake up.
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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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Far-right paramilitary groups pulled out of a peace process with the Colombian government late Wednesday following a decision by President Alvaro Uribe's administration to transfer jailed militia leaders to a maximum security prison.
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Afghanistan's counter-narcotics minister has resigned, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday, as the country brings in what is expected to be another record harvest of opium, a crop which is funding Taliban insurgents.
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Five Colombian congressmen, including the brother of the foreign minister, were arrested in a widening scandal linking the country's political class and far-right militias drew closer to the president, local media reported.
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Police and army operations in two Colombian cities have led to one of the largest rebel surrenders since President Alvaro Uribe began his U.S.-backed security crackdown in 2002, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Suriname&#39;s youngest government minister said she had resigned on Tuesday after charges she tried to spend $13,000 (6,700 pounds) in government money on a lavish 30th birthday party, featuring catering by her mother.
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The son of Northern Ireland leader Ian Paisley announced his resignation as a junior minister Monday amid allegations about his links with a businessman in his home constituency.
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Kosovo's interior minister resigns after two ethnic Albanians died of injuries sustained in clashes.
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Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the
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The foreign minister resigned Monday as a growing scandal linking the political establishment and far-right paramilitaries claimed its first member of President Alvaro Uribe's Cabinet.
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Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez quits after being caught drink-driving and held by police.
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Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic resigned, one day after the international community imposed sanctions against Bosnian Serb police and officials for allegedly helping fugitive war crimes suspects evade justice.