Polish official ready to quit
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WARSAW The new chairman of Poland&#39;s governing party, Jozef Oleksy, found guilty of lying about his past as a Communist security agent, said Wednesday that he was ready to resign as parliamentary speaker as soon as a successor could be found.
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The top official in the southern Russian republic of North Ossestia promised that his government would step down amid criticism for its handling of the Beslan school hostage siege, AFP reporters on the scene said.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat, has told ruling party leaders he intends to resign, an official said today.
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Poland, one of the main pillars of the US-led coalition in Iraq, will soon fix a date for the withdrawal of its 2,500 troops, its defence minister said, the day after he surprised Washington by promising a pullout by the end of 2005.
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Polish conservative Prime Minister  Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Thursday he will fire his rebellious  deputy Andrzej Lepper, ending a four-month alliance with his  leftist party after a budget row.
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Czech government office chief Pavel Pribyl resigns after a protest over his record as a senior police officer.
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WARSAW, Poland Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on Sunday urged Poles to be patient with his governing coalition a day after a deputy premier suggested internal friction could lead to snap elections next year.
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Poland's prime minister faced calls to resign on Wednesday after television aired what it said were secretly filmed meetings where his top aide held talks with an opposition MP on what she wanted for switching ...Comment
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The chief White House spokesman today announced plans to leave his post on Sept. 14.
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Poland&#039;s finance minister resigned Friday after a prosecutor asked a court to investigate whether she collaborated with the country&#039;s communist-era secret police.
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A top official from Sweden's opposition party quits over a political spying row - just days before elections.
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Poland&#039;s governing party accepted the resignation Saturday of Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and recommended party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski &amp;#151; the president&#039;s identical twin &amp;#151; to replace him.
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WARSAW -- Cardinal Jozef Glemp, who headed Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church through the dark days of martial law and the country's later jump to free-market democracy, stepped down as archbishop of Warsaw yesterday after more than 25 years.
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White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said today that he plans to step down Sept. 14 and President Bush said he will "sadly accept" his chief spokesman's resignation.
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Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has announced that he is to quit, and is set to be replaced by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS), party officials said.
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The chief organizer of the 2006 Turin  Winter Olympics, who has threatened to quit his post, made  peace with the Italian government Tuesday to raise the  possibility he may pull back from resigning.
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Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2005 according to Poland&#39;s Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski, AFP announced.