Philippine House leader ousted
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Lawmakers ousted the powerful leader of the House of Representatives early Tuesday in a vote he alleged was orchestrated by former ally President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo because his son linked her husband to a corruption scandal.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Myanmar's secretive military regime has forced out its prime minister, the long-powerful Gen. Khin Nyunt, and placed him under house arrest on corruption charges, the leader of neighboring Thailand said Tuesday...
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Bangkok - Myanmar&#39;s prime minister has been ousted and put under house arrest after a lengthy power struggle that has tightened the grip of hardliners in the military government, Thai officials and diplomats said on Tuesday.
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The senior leadership of House Democrats, citing three rebukes of Rep. Tom DeLay by the House ethics committee in a week, called Thursday for him to be ousted as majority leader.
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Calpers President Sean Harrigan was ousted from the No. 1 pension fund on Wednesday after spearheading a controversial corporate reform drive that drew the system into pitched political and boardroom battles.
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Somali MPs elect an ex-warlord as speaker after sacking his predecessor for wanting talks with Islamists.
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UK Home Secretary David Blunkett resigned over claims he helped speed up a visa application to his department by his former lover&#39;s Filipina nanny and remarks he made to a biographer about fellow ministers.
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Philippine troops kill an Islamist militant wanted by the US after raiding his safe house, officials say.
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned as head of his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party, triggering the dissolution of its entire executive in the wake of last month's military coup, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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JAKARTA - Backed by the Nationhood Coalition of political parties, a senior politician of Indonesia&#39;s largest Golkar Party was elected speaker of the House of Representatives early Saturday.
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The Philippines' chief negotiator with Muslim separatists has resigned, sources in the government and rebel peace panels said on Saturday, raising doubts about the resumption of talks in Malaysia next month.
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Nigeria's parliamentary speaker resigns after weeks of stalemate over a report into alleged graft.
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BEIJING -- In a major political tremor within China's ruling Communist Party, Shanghai's top party boss has been sacked on corruption charges stemming from a pension fund scandal.
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Thailand's military-installed prime minister on Monday dismissed the national police chief, who has been criticized for failing to solve a series of bomb explosions in the capital on New Year's Eve.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling Uri Party resigned Thursday, an unexpected first casualty of President Roh Moo-hyun&#39;s call for an inquiry into who benefited from working with Korea&#39;s Japanese colonial rulers.
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Six-term Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., notified House leaders Friday that he is resigning from the House Ã¢ÂÂ a sudden and unexpected reaction to questions of impropriety that arose just days before. (read Foley's official statement)
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Representative Mark Foley, a Florida Republican, resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit Internet messages he is reported to have sent.