Israeli NRP quits gov&#39;t to protest pullout plan
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The Israeli far-right National Religious Party (NRP) voted Monday night to quit the coalition in protest of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan, localnewspaper Haaretz reported on its website.
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East Timor&#039;s Nobel prize-winning foreign minister resigned in protest Sunday after the country&#039;s ruling party ignored demands to fire the prime minister over accusations he provoked bloody unrest.
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The Israeli army pulled out of the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday, bringing to an end to its 3-day military operation in the area, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
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Norwegian Petroleum and Energy Minister  Odd Roger Enoksen has resigned, the prime minister&#39;s office  said on Friday without naming his replacement.
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Several thousand Israeli settlers and supporters demonstrate, during a rally against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s planned pullout and evacuation of Gaza Strip Jewish settlements, near Sharon&#39;s residence, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004.
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Israel's police chief resigns after a government commission says he should go over alleged misconduct.
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BEIRUT Four ministers quit the Lebanese government on Monday to protest the passage of a Syrian-inspired constitutional amendment intended to keep President Emile Lahoud in power for another three years.
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Anti-disengagement plan leaders took Olmert&#39;s word that the government intends to carry out more pullouts from the West Bank after the Gaza and northern West Bank disengagement plan is implemented.
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Yisrael Beiteinu left Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ruling coalition on Jan. 16.
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Sharon has angered the settlers, once his most ardent supporters, with his &#39;&#39;disengagement&#39;&#39; plan for separating Israelis from the Palestinians by withdrawing from Gaza and dismantling four settlements in the northern West Bank.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy, who had offered to quit over a controversial cabinet reshuffle, submitted his resignation Wednesday.
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Senior military officers threatened that they would quit the Israeli army in protest against Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw settlers from Gaza.
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Israel&#39;s military commander of the Gaza Strip area, Brig.-Gen. Shmuel Zakai, announced his resignation Thursday amid a leaked media report scandal.
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Bosnia&#39;s Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic resigned Saturday in protest against what he called &quot;unconstitutional changes&quot; top peace overseer Paddy Ashdown intends to make.
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JERUSALEM  - The political mouthpiece of the settler movement was poised to resign from Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition government Tuesday after the Israeli prime minister refused to bow to demands to put his Gaza pullout plan to a national referendum.
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Lebanon&#39;s environment minister resigned from the government on Monday in protest at parliament&#39;s decision to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud&#39;s term of office by three years.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel lashed out yesterday against what he called growing incitement toward violence by opponents of his Gaza Strip withdrawal plan, while thousands of Jewish settlers and their supporters gathered in the city to protest the proposed pullout.