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South Korea’s prime minister offers to resign (AP)

July 29th, 2010

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un-chan delivers a speech regarding his resignation during a press conference at the Government House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Chung said he has offered to resign following a dispute over a government relocation project. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - South Korea’s prime minister offered to resign Thursday after parliament shot down his efforts to scrap a plan that would relocate several government ministries out of the capital.


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Nepal’s PM agrees to resign (AP)

May 28th, 2010

AP - Nepal’s prime minister agreed to resign after the former communist rebels supported his proposal to extend the term of parliament so it can draft a new constitution to…

With government at stake, UK’s Brown to resign (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown reads a statement to the media statement outside 10 Downing Street in London, Monday May 10, 2010, in which he said he intended to stand down as Labour Party leader.(AP Photo/Simon Dawson)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in a national election, announcing Monday he…

UK’s Gordon Brown to resign as prime minister (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves the Ambassador's entrance of the Foreign Office in central London Sunday May 9, 2010. Senior party leaders from Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats scrambled to hammer out a new government Sunday, amid fears that prolonged political uncertainty would stoke market jitters when trading reopens Monday. David Cameron's right-of-center Conservatives won 306 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons in Thursday's national election but failed to secure a majority. For the first time since 1974, voting resulted in a 'hung Parliament' — no party is able to take overall control of the country.(AP Photo/Steve Parsona/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - In a dramatic bid to keep the Labour party in power, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday he will resign by September but first hopes to broker…

German bishop offers to resign over abuse (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

FILE - The March 2, 2009 file photo shows Augsburg's Bishop Walter Mixa during the bishops conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. Mixa is offering his resignation after a flap over allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, his hometown newspaper reported Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday evening offering to resign as bishop and as Germany's Roman Catholic military chaplain, the daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported, without citing sources. ,(AP Photo/Focke Strangmann, file)AP - A leading conservative Roman Catholic bishop in Germany has written to Pope Benedict XVI offering to resign amid persistent allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, the Augsburg…

Kyrgyz president refuses to admit defeat or resign (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Protesters pose in Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's cabinet room inside Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The president of Kyrgyzstan insisted Thursday that he is not admitting defeat and he will not resign despite a bloody uprising and the formation of an interim government…

Kyrgyz president refuses to resign (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Protesters pose in Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's cabinet room inside Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - A Kyrgyz news agency says President Bakiyev is refusing to resign despite a bloody uprising and the formation of a new opposition government.


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Lawyers in Mexico church sex abuse case resign (AP)

March 8th, 2010

AP - A Mexican lawyer said Monday he has resigned from handling the case of a woman and her sons who claim the males were sexually abused as boys by…

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