Controversial Bangladesh election chief steps aside
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Bangladesh's controversial election chief has bowed to pressure to step aside, the president said, after thousands of opposition supporters poured onto the streets to demand his removal.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The head of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's party said Friday he would step down after a campaign mudslinging scandal.
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Bangladesh appointed a new election chief nearly a month after national elections were cancelled following accusations of vote-rigging.
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A surgeons' leader resigns from talks in the row over a new system for the  training of junior doctors.
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Four members of Bangladesh's interim cabinet resign over the decision to deploy the army ahead of elections.
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Islamabad, Oct 16. (PTI): A senior opposition lawmaker in Pakistan&#39;s National Assembly resigned on Friday to protest the approval of a bill authorising President Pervez Musharraf to continue as President and
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Bangladesh's new chief election commissioner was sworn in in a move aimed at ending opposition party claims of vote bias so that credible elections can take place.
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's top anticorruption official quit yesterday, dealing the biggest blow so far to President Mwai Kibaki's election pledge to root out public corruption hobbling East Africa's largest economy.
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The Bosnian Serb prime minister steps down after the US and Bosnia's top international envoy sanction officials.
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The chairman of Hewlett Packard is stepping down amid controversy over a probe into leaks at the firm.
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An investigation leads to the manager of City of Derry Airport being removed from his position.
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Attorney General Lord Goldsmith is to step down after six years in office, it is announced.
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The chief rival to Afghan President Hamid  Karzai in last week's historic presidential election said on  Monday he and several other candidates had dropped a plan to  boycott the election process.
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Kostov said today he is stepping down because of disagreements with one of the ruling coalition&#39;s ethnic Albanian partners, the Albanian Union for Integration.
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A top economic aide to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigned Wednesday from his position in the current military-appointed government following sharp criticism from pro-democracy groups.
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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has left the country hours after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity.
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Bangladesh's main opposition called off a four-day transport blockade after the interim government bowed to pressure to replace an election chief accused of seeking to rig January polls.