Israeli right-wing party quits Olmert's government
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A right-wing party quit Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government on Wednesday, condemning his peace talks with the Palestinians and leaving him even more politically vulnerable.
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Israeli right-wingers opposed to the  Gaza disengagement plan attack Finance Minister  Binyamin Netanyahu.
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A senior Israeli army commander has resigned in the wake of a reported row with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Israeli Police Chief Moshe Karadi resigned on Sunday after a government inquiry recommended he steps down in a scandal that linked his department to the underworld.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  right-wing Likud party voted on Wednesday against his bid to  form a coalition with center-left Labour he seeks to advance  his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud Party, but a minority religious party quit Prime
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Thailand's deposed premier resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from London on Tuesday, after more than 200 colleagues quit the organization in the wake of a military coup.
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The Turkish Cypriot minority government resigns after abandoning efforts to forge a new coalition.
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Italy's former justice minister, who resigned over a corruption probe, withdraws his party from the ruling coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  sacked his main coalition partner on Wednesday after a  humiliating parliamentary defeat that left him scrambling to  avoid early elections and save his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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An Israeli general who was shunted   aside as commander of the Lebanon front during a month of   fighting against Hizbollah guerrillas resigned on Wednesday in   a widely expected move.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the decisive role that
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra quit as head of the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party on Tuesday, signaling the de facto collapse of a political machine that had dominated the country until last month's coup.
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The leader of Australia's opposition Labor Party announced Tuesday he will quit politics because of ill health.
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Israel's pro-settler National Religious Party (NRP) decided on Monday to quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government in protest at his Gaza pullout plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sacked ministers from the Shinui party after they voted against a 2005 state budget in its first reading Wednesday.
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Austria's government resigned Tuesday, two days after the center-right coalition lost parliamentary elections. It will remain in office until a new government is formed.