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...RESIGNED. Mari Alkatiri, 57, Prime Minister of East Timor, after clashes between disgruntled soldiers and government loyalists led to the tiny nation's worst violence since its 1999 independence from Indonesia; in Dili. Alkatiri, whom critics allege also hired a hit squad to eliminate his political opponents, agreed to step down after East Timor's widely respected President, Xanana Gusm?o, threatened to resign himself if he did not. "They destroyed Dili town, burned, looted and killed our people," railed Alkatiri while announcing his resignation, "and then they accuse me of being a terrorist...
...several individuals familiar with the negotiations between Summers and Ellison said that the billionaire technology tycoon had apparently lost interest in the gift months before Summers’ February announcement that he would resign...
...Stroger has refused to step down nor turn over his duties to anyone else. In a clear sign of the robust health of the county's political machine, few of Stroger's colleagues on the Cook County Board of Commissioners will even dare to publicly hint that he should resign. Stroger's office says that the president's chief of staff is making day-to-day decisions after receiving guidance from the ailing President, who's been in and out of the hospital since the stroke. Stroger was first elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners...
...engaging in a complicated scheme to ensure that politically connected job applicants received favorable treatment in city hiring and promotions. The federal investigation, led by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (the same one overseeing the Valerie Plame CIA leak case in Washington) has already led the city clerk to resign in disgrace and to 35 public corruption convictions...
...reported Thursday that Maliki plans to offer an amnesty to insurgents, including those who have killed Americans - only those who have spilled any Iraqi blood would be excluded. But on Friday, the Maliki aide who had leaked that information was asked by the Prime Minister to resign. Still, the Washington Post reported, Adnan Ali al-Kadhimi stood by his account of amnesty considerations. "The prime minister himself has said that he is ready to give amnesty to the so-called resistance, provided they have not been involved in killing Iraqis," Kadhimi told the Post. And other government sources the paper...