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President Cristina Fernandez fired the coast guard chief on Monday after a suspect in a human rights trial died of cyanide poisoning at a military brig.
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Canada sacks the head of the country's nuclear watchdog over the closure of a reactor that produces medical isotopes.
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Argentine President Nestor Kirchner condemns the killing of three police guards at a government building.
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President Evo Morales fired two top mining officials late Friday after a clash between rival bands of miners over access to the country's richest tin deposit left at least 16 dead and more than 60 injured.
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South Africa's embattled police commissioner resigned Sunday as president of Interpol, a day after he took an extended leave of absence from his police duties, the international crime-fighting agency said in a statement.
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Robert Polet moved quickly yesterday to put out the first major fire he has faced since joining the Gucci Group as its chief executive, by firing a division head who was accused of disloyalty.
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President Vladimir Putin has fired the commander of Russia's navy, taking to at least four the number of top brass dismissed since he appointed a new defense minister, media in Russia reported on Friday.
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A row erupts after the Dominican Republic's new president awards top jobs to four fraud suspects.   Opposition leaders attack he new president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez,
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A civilian U.S. Coast Guard employee was placed on paid administrative leave, threatened with a criminal investigation and confronted by guards at gunpoint in retaliation for disclosing information embarrassing to the service's troubled fleet replacement program, his attorney said.
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Paraguay's president unexpectedly fired the armed forces chief and 58 military and police officers Sunday, calling it a routine reshuffling of the military high command and dismissing suggestions it was politically motivated.
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Kazakhstan's health minister and a  regional governor were fired on Wednesday following the deaths  of at least four babies and the infection of at least 55  children with the HIV virus, an official said.
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Sears Canada Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Cohen was fired as head of the country&#39;s No. 3 department-store chain after less than four years amid declining sales and profit.
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The head of the high-profile US National Hurricane Center (NHC) was ousted on Monday following a storm of controversy over his harsh criticism of his employers and a near-mutiny by forecasters.
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A group that earned respect for rescuing children from prostitution fired its director amid allegations he paid for sex with a 19-year-old Honduran youth, the group said Friday.
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Turkey's transportation minister fired the country's chief railway official Wednesday amid accusations of mismanagement following three deadly train accidents the past two months.
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An American doctor whose home was raided by federal agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks has been sacked by his hospital.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The woman charged with monitoring the government's environmental efforts has been fired.  Environment Commissioner Johanne Gelinas was replaced following months of friction with her boss, Auditor General Sheila Fraser, sources confirmed Tuesday.