Italian PM hands in resignation
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Troop deployments have split Mr Prodi's coalition Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has handed his resignation to the country's president after losing a crucial foreign policy vote in the Senate.Comment
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced the resignation of his conservative government.
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Romano Prodi lost a Senate confidence vote, obliging him to resign and bring an end to his 20-month-old government.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had to  decide on Thursday whether to resign or risk a confidence vote  he would be expected to lose, obliging his centre-left  government to step down anyway.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is under pressure to resign ahead of a confidence vote in the Senate.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi handed his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday after losing a confidence vote in the Senate.
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ROME - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy on Wednesday, a minister ...Comment
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Italy's justice minister offered his resignation Wednesday after the start of a corruption investigation involving his wife, but Premier Romano Prodi quickly rejected it.
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Pakistan &#39;s caretaker prime minister has resigned and his cabinet dissolved in a formality to allow the finance minister to take over as head of the government.
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Italian PM forced to resign, clearing the way for Silvio Berlusconi to bid once more to govern Italy
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned Thursday after his center-left coalition narrowly lost a Senate confidence vote, a humiliating end to a 20-month-old government plagued by infighting.
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes announces the government's resignation.
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The Tanzanian prime minister has resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract between his office and a U.S.-based firm, he said on Thursday.
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Italy&#39;s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has bowed to the inevitable, abandoning his push to make Rocco Buttiglione a European Commissioner and opening the way for a solution to an unprecedented EU crisis.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after suffering a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy, Infrastructure Minister Antonio Di Pietro said on Wednesday.
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Premier Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday after an embarrassing loss in the Senate on foreign policy, including Italy's military mission in Afghanistan.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Thursday following 20 rocky months in office after the centre-left leader lost a vote of confidence in the Senate.