S.Korea's Ruling Party Head Resigns on Father's Past
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The chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri  Party resigned on Thursday after saying his father had served  as a military police officer during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial  rule on the peninsula.
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South Korea's new leader wants to ditch the ministry that has long handled relations with the North, have others absorb its functions and shift the way Seoul deals with its prickly neighbor, aides said on Wednesday.
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SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Shin Ki-nam, South Korean ruling UriParty&#39;s chairman, announced his resignation on a Thursday&#39;s press conference for his father&#39;s collaboration with Japanese colonial ruler decades ago.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he would resign, ending a year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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Ruling Uri Party chairman Shin Ki-nam made his resignation official in a press briefing following an emergency party meeting earlier in the day.
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A newly-appointed Thai economics chief resigns after protests over his links to the former prime minister.
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Shinzo Abe, the nationalist leader whose vision of an unapologetically strong Japan sank amid scandals, incompetence and gaffes, said today he would step down.
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Former President Jiang Zemin resigns his post as head of military.
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The head of Taiwan's main opposition party, Ma Ying-jeou, resigns after fraud charges.
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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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South Koreans on Wednesday elected as president Lee Myung-bak, a right-wing former CEO vowing to improve the economy and stand up to North Korea, TV exit polls showed.
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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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The prime minister of the Bosnian Serb-run half of the country resigned Friday, a day after the US government and Bosnia&#39;s top international administrator sanctioned
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The chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party resigned on Thursday after saying his father had served as a military police officer during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule on the peninsula.
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SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Shin Ki-nam, South Korean ruling Uri Party&#39;s chairman, announced his resignation on a Thursday&#39;s press conference for his father&#39;s collaboration with Japanese colonial ruler decades ago.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet resigned Tuesday, clearing the way for new ruling party leader Yasuo Fukuda to be named by parliament as his successor.
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A top official from Sweden's opposition party quits over a political spying row - just days before elections.