Turkish Cypriot government quits
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The Turkish Cypriot minority government resigns after abandoning efforts to forge a new coalition.
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The government in Kuwait submits its resignation to head off a no-confidence vote in a minister, MPs say.
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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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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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Kuwait's government resigned on Sunday, parliament members said, in a move aimed at thwarting a planned no-confidence motion against a health minister who is also a member of the ruling family.
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The prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik al-Hariri, resigned yesterday, declining to form a new government that would face international pressure over Syria&#39;s interference in Lebanese affairs.
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LISBON, Portugal  - Portugal's conservative government is quitting, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes announced Saturday, a day after the president dissolved the legislature and called an early general election.
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes announces the government's resignation.
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Italy's prime minister resigned Wednesday after his center-left government Wednesday lost a key foreign policy vote.Comment
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Austria's government resigned Tuesday, two days after the center-right coalition lost parliamentary elections. It will remain in office until a new government is formed.
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Croatian Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul quits, despite denying links to corruption scandals.
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Kyrgyzstan's government resigned on Wednesday, in line with requirements set by a new constitution adopted at a referendum last weekend.
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Israel's pro-settler National Religious Party (NRP) decided on Monday to quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government in protest at his Gaza pullout plan.
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The Hungarian Prime Minister, Peter Medgyessy, resigns following  a row with his liberal coalition partner.
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Macedonia's prime minister Hari Kostov resigned Monday over disagreements with ethnic Albanian coalition partners, setting off a government crisis in the Balkan state where ethnic tensions run high.
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Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi of Somalia resigned yesterday after weeks of mounting tensions inside the Horn of Africa nation's transitional government and a power struggle with the president.