Japan farm minister quits in another blow to PM Abe
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, delivering a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet to try to revive his popularity.
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Afghanistan's counter-narcotics minister has resigned, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday, as the country brings in what is expected to be another record harvest of opium, a crop which is funding Taliban insurgents.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, 28 May: Farm Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka attempted suicide in Tokyo on Monday, police sources said.  It is not immediately clear whether he remains alive.  (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring Newsfile.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized Thursday for stress and exhaustion a day after announcing his resignation, his doctors said, amid speculation health troubles prompted him to step down.
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Agrarian Policy Minister of Ukraine Viktor Slauta has handed in his resignation, Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister for Agriculture Ivan Kyrylenko said on December 16 to the session of the Cabinet of Ministers, ...
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Japan's defense minister resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly tapped a woman for the post to try to quell the furor ahead of an election this month.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced his resignation on Wednesday after a year in power dogged by scandals, an election rout and a crisis over Japan's support for U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan.
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Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been admitted to hospital, media said on Thursday, a day after the leader suddenly announced he would resign.
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TOKYO, Sept. 13 -- The departure of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stunned Japan on Wednesday by announcing that he was quitting after a year in power, appears likely to weaken his party's long hold on political power, embolden an already cocky opposition and stall economic reform.
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet to try to revive his popularity.
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Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a major cabinet reshuffle Monday, shifting his foreign minister to a top party job as part of a shake-up aimed at salvaging his government.
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Japan's ruling party scrambled on Thursday to find a new leader and avoid a policy vacuum after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shock resignation the previous day.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned on Wednesday after less than a year in power, falling victim to a string of scandals that hampered his reform agenda and sent his popularity plummeting.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's health minister was under pressure to quit on Wednesday for calling women "birth-giving machines", with opposition parties poised to boycott debate on the budget unless he stepped down.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s entire Cabinet resigned Monday ahead of a planned reshuffle that Japanese leader hopes will solidify his power and boost his ability to carry out reforms.
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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka -- under fire for a series of political funding scandals -- has killed himself, NHK said on Monday.
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US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns expressed sorrow Monday at the suicide of Japan&#39;s farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who had been embroiled in a political funding scandal.