Japanese minister 'has resigned'
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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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Japan's defense minister resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling camp ahead of a national election this month.
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Top government minister David Blunkett has resigned over a charge of abuse of office, ripping a hole in Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government months before an expected general election.
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Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing resigns for personal reasons, the government announces.
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Ukraine s Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk has resigned amid criticism of the country s military storage and missile fuel disposal facilities.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's health minister was under pressure to quit on Wednesday for calling women "birth-giving machines", with opposition parties poised to boycott debate on the budget unless he stepped down.
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet has committed suicide, media reported on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support had already dived ahead of a July election.
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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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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, delivering a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet to try to revive his popularity.
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Thailand's Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula resigns, citing differences with the prime minister.
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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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Japanese opposition parties tell the health minister to resign for calling women "birth-giving machines".
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Lithuania PM Algirdas Brazauskas and his coalition government resign after its largest member withdraws.
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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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BEIJING -- Government officials said Thursday that Finance Minister Jin Renqing resigned for "personal reasons," amid concerns of surging inflation and just weeks ahead of an expected reshuffling of top government positions.
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Japan's embattled defense minister resigned Tuesday over his comments suggesting the 1945 atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable, news reports said. Fumio Kyuma had come under intense criticism from survivors of the bombing following the comments made over the weekend. He had apologized.
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced the resignation of his conservative government.