Two Israeli ministers sacked after pullout vote
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sacked cabinet minister Uzi Landau and deputy internal security minister Michael Ratzon y after they voted against his Gaza pullout plan.
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was last night negotiating with the Labour Party and ultra-religious groups in a make-or-break bid to build a new coalition capable of ensuring a Gaza Strip pullout next year, after he dismissed the five ministers of
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Appointment of ministers enrages opposition and ends hopes of swift end to political and social crisis
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned as head of an emergency government and was immediately appointed Saturday to lead an interim Cabinet, after a state of emergency imposed after Hamas' Gaza takeover expired.
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Kuwait&#039;s Cabinet resigned Saturday, a move that was expected after parliamentary elections in which women voted for the first time and a new legislature of mostly reformers was chosen.
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Israel dismissed a group of reservist military officers on Sunday who threatened they would disobey an order to evacuate Jewish settlements under a Gaza pullout plan, one of the officers said.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo's interior minister resigned on Monday over the deaths of two protesters in clashes between police and ethnic Albanians demonstrating against a UN plan for the breakaway province.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is desperately trying to save his government after he sacked his main coalition partner yesterday.
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Two Dutch ministers are resigning after a critical report into a deadly fire at Amsterdam's airport.
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A top Israeli army general is sacked over his criticism of the war in Lebanon in a series of media interviews.
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BUDAPEST : Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy resigned, pre-empting a move by his ruling Socialist party to oust him in a no-confidence vote in parliament next month.
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Former prime minister Ehud Barak was sworn in as Israel's defense minister on Monday in a cabinet shakeup rushed through in response to violence in Gaza.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fired the defense and agriculture ministers after his public ratings fell following the government&#39;s failure to stop violence in the Muslim-dominated south and the spread of bird flu.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  sacked his main coalition partner on Wednesday after a  humiliating parliamentary defeat that left him scrambling to  avoid early elections and save his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel sacked a key coalition partner yesterday, and Marwan Barghouthi, the jailed uprising leader, decided to run for president of the Palestinian Authority next month, plunging Israeli and Palestinian politics into disarray.
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Israel's pro-settler National  Religious Party (NRP) decided on Monday to quit Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon's government in protest at his Gaza pullout plan.
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BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fired ministers responsible for dealing with a bird flu crisis and violence in the largely Muslim south yesterday, just months ahead of a general election.