Israel's Gaza commander resigns
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A senior Israeli army commander has resigned in the wake of a reported row with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Hamas leaders have apparently quit Damascus following Israeli threats to target them for assassination in retaliation for a Palestinian double suicide bombing last week, Israel's defense minister said on Monday.
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The Palestinian leader sacks top security commanders in Gaza after militants violate a truce deal with Israel.
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Hamas' path in consolidating control in the Gaza Strip:
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Former President Jiang Zemin resigns his post as head of military.
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Hamas leaders have apparently quit  Damascus following Israeli threats to target them for  assassination in retaliation for a Palestinian double suicide  bombing last week, Israel's defense minister said on Monday.
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Israeli forces withdrew early Saturday from a northern Gaza Strip refugee camp, three days after launching an incursion to prevent the firing of rockets at Israeli towns, an Israeli military source said.
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Palestinian officials have disbanded a Gaza security force feared by civilians, says a security official, marking a step toward reforms ahead of an election to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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TEHRAN - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, a relative moderate who struggled fiercely against the uncompromising agenda of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has resigned his high-profile post, government officials announced yesterday.
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lifts his threat to resign over the Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud Party, but a minority religious party quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition in protest over the plan to remove Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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Responding to growing threats of insubordination, Israel's army chief announced Thursday he'll expel officers and soldiers who refuse to participate in a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday all 8,200 Jewish settlers will be pulled out of the Gaza Strip starting next summer, and he ordered a troop withdrawal from a refugee camp &#151; signaling that a bloody two-week offensive in northern Gaza could be easing.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav resigned on Friday, a day after admitting to sex crimes against women employees in a case that has brought unprecedented disgrace on an Israeli head of state.
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Ukraine s Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk has resigned amid criticism of the country s military storage and missile fuel disposal facilities.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Wednesday announced his resignation to pave the way for Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz,the prime minister-designate.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud party, but a minority religious party quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition, protesting the plan to remove Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.