Portuguese government resigns after snap vote call
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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced that he and his centre-right cabinet had submitted their resignations, the day after the nation's socialist president announced he would dissolve parliament and call an early vote.
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Portugal's president decided Tuesday to dissolve parliament and call early elections after weeks of feuding among ministers, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes said.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano  formally dissolved parliament on Wednesday, a spokesman said,  putting the country on the road to a snap election that will  most likely be held in mid-April.
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Ivory Coast's government resigns and the PM will form a new cabinet after toxic waste kills three people.
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The leader of the Bosnian Serb government, Dragan Mikerevic, resigned Friday to protest what he described as unconstitutional interference in his government&#39;s affairs by the country&#39;s Western administrator.
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Top government minister David Blunkett has resigned over a charge of abuse of office, ripping a hole in Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government months before an expected general election.
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Portugal's prime minister said on  Saturday he and his cabinet had submitted their resignations, a  move that came a day after a snap election was called.
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Portugal's prime minister and his cabinet may offer to resign on Saturday, a day after snap elections were called, news reports said.
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East Timor's police chief and his two deputies have resigned but no reason was given, the interior minister of the troubled nation said.
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Portugal&#39;s prime minister said on Saturday he and his cabinet had submitted their resignations, a move that came a day after a snap election was called.
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Portugal, already reeling from an alarming economic decline, plunged deeper into crisis Saturday when the conservative government quit a day after the president dissolved parliament and called an early general election.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana announced Saturday the resignation of his government, one day after Portuguese president said he would dissolve parliament and call an early vote.
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Interior Minister Belisario Velasco, one of the most powerful officials in President Michelle Bachelet's government, resigned Thursday as part of an expected Cabinet shake-up.
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The Portuguese government has resigned to avoid turf battles with President Jorge Sampaio in the run-up to snap elections in February.
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Lithuania PM Algirdas Brazauskas and his coalition government resign after its largest member withdraws.
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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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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.