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Japanese television is reporting that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is meeting with parliamentary officials and is expected to resign.

German President Horst Koehler said on Monday he was resigning with immediate effect due to widespread criticism of comments he made about the country's military action and commercial interests.

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President Obama's top intelligence adviser, Dennis Blair, has resigned. His office oversees 17 federal agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.

Indiana Republican Rep. Mark Souder announced Tuesday he would resign from Congress, effective Friday, because he had an affair with a staffer.

Belgium's longest serving bishop resigned Friday, saying he was "enormously sorry" for having sexually abused a young boy about ...

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Thursday of an Irish bishop who admitted he didn't challenge the Dublin church's policy ...

Former New York congressman Eric Massa wrote a $40,000 check to his chief of staff shortly before resigning his seat last month ...

A Georgia officer who took the first report from the woman who accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault has resigned....

The resignation of Ken McKay, Steele's highest-ranking aide, is the most drastic in a series of attempts at damage control by the committee.

A domestic extremist group has sent letters to more than 30 U.S. governors demanding they resign, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI said in an intelligence note.