French Finance Minister resigns to take top job in French ...
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy resigned Monday in order to take over the leadership of the ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, French TF1 television quoted government officials as saying.
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Lebanon&#39;s Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri resigned Wednesday after the pro-Syrian president&#39;s term was extended under what lawmakers called pressure from Damascus.
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Israel's finance minister resigns amid allegations of embezzlement at a workers' union he headed in 2003.
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Britain&#39;s top law enforcement officer, a key member of Tony Blair&#39;s Cabinet, resigned Wednesday after acknowledging that his department fast-tracked a visa for his former lover&#39;s nanny.
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Thai Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula quits,  blaming infighting in the military-backed government.
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Alain Menargues, deputy director-general in charge of news at the French state-owned Radio France International (RFI), has resigned.
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France's popular, hard-driving finance minister -- moved a step closer to realizing his ambition to become the country's next president with his election as head of the ruling Union for a Popular Majority ...
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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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Top British government minister David Blunkett resigned on Wednesday over a charge of abuse of office, ripping a hole in Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s
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LONDON -- One of Britain's most powerful and popular Cabinet secretaries resigned his post yesterday after admitting his office had fast-tracked a visa application for his married lover's nanny.
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Ukraine's Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk resigns after a power struggle with PM Viktor Yanukovych.
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The chief executive of telecom company Equant, Daniel Caclin, resigned, the company said, signalling that he would be replaced by a top Thomson executive close to the head of Equant's parent group, France Telecom.
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France's agriculture minister, Herv&#195;&#169; Gaymard, will replace Nicolas Sarkozy as finance and economy minister following the latter's resignation to take up the helm of the governing UMP party, officials said.
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Environment minister Fares Boueiz resigns over Emile Lahoud's being allowed a second presidential term.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Wednesday announced his resignation to pave the way for Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz,the prime minister-designate.
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French President Jacques Chirac named loyal ally Herve Gaymard as finance minister on Monday, tightening his grip over the economy after the departure of the ambitious and outspoken Nicolas Sarkozy.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©raleâs top executive, Daniel Bouton, offered his resignation on Wednesday for a second time, but the bankâs board declined to vote on it, maintaining him in his job for now.