Longtime papal spokesman leaving post
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For more than two decades he was Pope John Paul II&#039;s confidant and the Vatican&#039;s public face. A usually unflappable Spaniard, Joaquin Navarro-Valls struggled to hold back tears as the Polish pontiff lay on his deathbed.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely viewed as the moderate in an administration dominated by hawks, announced yesterday he will step down as chief US diplomat once a successor is in place.
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An adviser to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns over a row centred on Italy's Telecom Italia.
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The sudden hospitalization of Pope  John Paul was another reminder, if any were needed, that one of  the longest and most event-studded pontificates in history may  be coming to a close.
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A senior Hong Kong hospital official who was criticized for his performance during the SARS crisis will resign at the end of the year.
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The director and anchor of the main news program at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset TV empire has been forced to step down, prompting fears of growing political pressure.
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Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian nominee to the European Commission whose views on homosexuality resulted in an impasse with MEPs, yesterday decided to step aside.
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After a season of apparent policy slip-ups, Pope Benedict XVI is shuffling top advisers and bringing in veteran diplomats closely identified with Vatican policy in Iraq and the Middle East.
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The pope Wednesday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Jozef Glemp as archbishop of Warsaw, submitted for reasons of age.
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A fifth senior Justice Department official announced his resignation yesterday in the wake of the controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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WASHINGTON (CP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, a moderate voice among cabinet hardliners who remained popular despite a global tide of anti-Americanism sparked by the Iraq war, is stepping down as the top US diplomat.
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The chief White House spokesman today announced plans to leave his post on Sept. 14.
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An NI priest steps down from all ministry pending the outcome of a police investigation.
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US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi resigned today, becoming the ninth member of President George W. Bush&#39;s Cabinet to leave since the November election.
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Pope John Paul will leave hospital  Thursday after a 10-day stay for breathing problems, the  Vatican said.
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Pope Benedict is coming under mounting criticism from his former German theologian colleagues, one likening the Catholic Church's doctrinal office, that the pontiff once headed, to a 19th century censorship bureau.
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Tim Priest, the executive director of the Greater Washington Initiative, announced yesterday that he is stepping down after nine years with the marketing affiliate of the Greater Washington Board of Trade.