Yanukovych resigns post as Ukraine PM
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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych resigned Friday, making a grudging admission that he had little hope of reversing the presidential election victory of his Western-leaning rival.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas resigned on Thursday in a procedural move aimed at launching a unity government with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, an official in Haniyeh's office told Reuters.
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The prime minister of the Bosnian Serb-run half of the country resigned Friday, a day after the U.S. government and Bosnia's top international administrator sanctioned Bosnian Serbs for failing to arrest and hand over war crimes suspects to the U.N. tribunal.
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Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma  accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on  Wednesday, in a decree published by the president's office.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Yevgeny Marchuk on Wednesday, the presidential press service reported.
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Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych resigns, but refuses to admit defeat in the presidential election.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament voted out the administration of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych yesterday amid charges that it stole the presidential election, and the opposition halted
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Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma  accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on  Wednesday, but the country remains in political limbo during a  drawn-out transition after last month's election.
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Government candidate Viktor Yanukovych is declared the winner of Ukraine's election in a result rejected by the US.
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On Wednesday, prime minister Viktor Yanukovich said he was resigning. However, he refused to concede his defeat to his opposition rival, Viktor Yushchenko, in the presidential poll.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has dismissed the heads of three more regions.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of political turmoil and setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to move out of imperial leader Russia's sphere of influence.
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Macedonian Prime Minister Hari Kostov resigned Monday over a minority party dispute and Parliament is expected to decide on the resignation Thursday.
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Macedonia's Prime Minister Hari Kostov resigns over disputes within the ruling coalition over minority rights.
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Head of the Czech government office Pavel Pribyl resigns after a protest over his record as a senior police officer.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation at a Wednesday news conference.
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Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-backed candidate in Ukraine's presidential elections, rose to prominence as governor of the eastern Donetsk coal-mining and industrial region before President Leonid Kuchma appointed him prime minister in 2002.