Colombian Foreign Minister Resigns as Paramilitary Scandal Widens
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 19 -- Colombia's foreign minister resigned on Monday as a growing scandal swept the country's political establishment, linking it to far-right paramilitary groups blamed for thousands of killings and other crimes.
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A minister resigned Monday, days after her brother's arrest for helping paramilitaries.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro   Uribe's U.S.-backed plan to disband right-wing militias has   been hit by charges he is too easy on paramilitaries and that   drug smugglers are posing as fighters to win short jail terms.
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The foreign minister resigned Monday as a growing scandal linking the political establishment and far-right paramilitaries claimed its first member of President Alvaro Uribe's Cabinet.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon's fragile government over the decisive role that Syria, its larger and more powerful neighbor, plays in its political life.
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Guatemala's top detective quit on Friday following a spate of recent murders of politicians and policemen that have raised suspicion of links between high-level security forces and drug gangs.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - With her embattled government about halfway through its four-year term, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Belisario Velasco on Thursday.
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Estonian defence minister Margus Hanson resigns after admitting confidential documents were stolen from his home.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest right-wing  paramilitary group said on Thursday it would disband 3,000 of  its fighters before the end of the year, in what the group  called a good faith gesture as it pursues peace talks with the  government.
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Bosnia&#39;s Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic has quit, saying his party will refuse to bow to international pressure and enact police and defence reforms.
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A slew of allegations &#151; staged bombings, civilian killings and a fake kidnapping &#151; have eroded confidence in the institution most crucial to President Alvaro Uribe's crusade to make his war-torn country safer: Colombia's U.S.-bankrolled army.
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The Tanzanian prime minister has resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract between his office and a U.S.-based firm, he said on Thursday.
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The son of Northern Ireland leader Ian Paisley announced his resignation as a junior minister Monday amid allegations about his links with a businessman in his home constituency.
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Peru's interior minister resigned Monday during hearings into a four-day standoff with a paramilitary group that ended with four police officers dead.
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Saturday he had accepted the resignation of two ministers, following a corruption scandal that has shaken his centre-left government.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's president quickly named a new foreign minister yesterday , hours after Maria Consuelo Araujo resigned amid a growing scandal linking the political establishment and far-right paramilitaries.
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The minister leading Bolivia's efforts to nationalize Bolivia's oil and gas operations resigned Friday after his government backed down in a dispute with Brazil's state-run energy company, the industry's biggest investor.