Minister quits to race cars
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Lord Drayson, minister for defence equipment, quits to pursue dream of winning Le Mans 24-hour motor race.
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Nicolas Sarkozy resigned as finance minister Monday, a day after accepting the leadership of France&#39;s conservative party and effectively becoming a rival to his old boss, President Jacques Chirac.
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SOFIA, Jun 1 (IPS) - Justice Minister Georgi Petkanov announced he will  resign after the weekend because of health reasons, saying  "work at the ministry is extremely hard." Meanwhile, a  rising politician who has staked a claim as an anti-crime  crusader is making his way towards the prime minister's  chair.
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The announcement by Olivier Panis here yesterday that he will retire from racing at the end of the season at the age of 38 to take up a testing role at Toyota not only created a vacancy
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Former Conservative minister Robert Jackson defects to the Labour Party.
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Ukraine s Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk has resigned amid criticism of the country s military storage and missile fuel disposal facilities.
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Cabinet Office minister Hilary Armstrong announces she will step down as a minister once Tony Blair resigns.
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An Afghan Cabinet minister resigned Monday after President Hamid Karzai rejected his drive to shut down relief groups he accused of wasting money on expensive cars and houses.
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MONZA, Italy  - Formula One's oldest driver  Olivier Panis announced Thursday he will quit racing at the end  of the season to take up a test role with Toyota.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman resigns.
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A Somali minister and two deputies resign from the new government, tasked with ending years of anarchy.
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Cabinet ministers in the Hamas-led Palestinian government resigned Thursday, a step toward forming a unity government with Palestinian President Mamoud Abbas' Fatah party.
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A number of famous faces are quitting frontline politics alongside Blair.
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Britain&#39;s top law-enforcement officer, a key member of Tony Blair&#39;s Cabinet, resigned yesterday after acknowledging that his department fast-tracked a visa for his former lover&#39;s nanny.
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Budapest, August 20 (NNN): Hungarian Prime Minister, Peter Medgyessy, resigned on Friday following a row with his Socialist party&#39;s liberal coalition partner, the Free Democrats (SZDSZ), over a government reshuffle.
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Ian Paisley Jnr resigns from his position as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Britain's work and pensions minister Andrew Smith resigned, citing his wish to devote more time to his family and constituents, although recent press reports suggested he was about to face the axe.