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...Bulgarian capital was brought to a standstill by thousands of cab drivers protesting the abduction and killing of a taxi driver's three-year-old son. Interior Minister Emanuil Yordanov said he would resign if police did not find the boy's killer within days. The discovery of the child's body in a city park only hours after his street abduction provoked widespread anger among citizens who say authorities do little to curb violent crime. Prime Minister Ivan Kostov said parliament would hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the crisis, amid opposition calls for the government's resignation...
...hopes of retaking the Bundesrat be dashed, but its preparations for next year's Germany-wide elections would be hobbled as well. "It would be a catastrophe for the cdu," said Axel Misch, a political science professor at the University of Saarland. "The implication is Merkel would have to resign, and I'm sure there would be major troubles within the party...
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 announced today that he will resign from his post effective July 1, ending weeks of speculation as to what he might do after being passed over for the Harvard presidency...
...Bangaru Laxman, president of the ruling Baharatiya Janata Party, was implicated in a bribery scandal that has exposed rampant graft in India's corridors of power, and was forced to resign. That Laxman's name in the headlines symbolized the depth of the rot in Indian politics, where although bribery has become a way of life, national security had been assumed to be above the dictates of greed - an assumption trashed by the scandal that revealed an extensive web of corruption in weapons procurement...
...Mori started off the week in full-on kabuki mode, denying Monday that he'd told a weekend meeting of party elders that he'd resign. The denial, universally deemed mere lame-duck face-saving in advance of upcoming summits with George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, tipped the Japanese markets over into panic mode and sent the Nikkei 500 plunging to lows not seen since 1985, the long-ago days when Japan was an economic juggernaut to be emulated...