Portuguese govt resigns ahead of elections
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The Portuguese government has resigned to avoid turf battles with President Jorge Sampaio in the run-up to snap elections in February.
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The Turkish Cypriot minority government resigns after abandoning efforts to forge a new coalition.
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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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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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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced the resignation of his conservative government.
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Kuwait's government resigned on Sunday, parliament members said, in a move aimed at thwarting a planned no-confidence motion against a health minister who is also a member of the ruling family.
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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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Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy resigned, pre-empting a move by his ruling Socialist party to oust him in a no-confidence vote in parliament next month.
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East Timor&#039;s prime minister said Monday he was ready to resign to help end weeks of unrest and political turmoil in the tiny nation.
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Algeria's prime minister submits the resignation of his cabinet, a move expected after last month's  elections.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio said Tuesday he intends to dissolve parliament and call for early elections.
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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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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced that he and his centre-right cabinet had submitted their resignations, the day after the nation's socialist president announced he would dissolve parliament and call an early vote.
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The government of Latvia resigns after parliament rejects a draft budget for the coming year.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is resigning when he meets today with Prime Minister Jean- Pierre Raffarin, freeing him to use his new position as head of the ruling party to prepare for the 2007 presidential elections.
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Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Ghedi resigns after a long-running feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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East Timor's police chief and his two deputies have resigned but no reason was given, the interior minister of the troubled nation said.