On Wednesday, Knesset Speaker Yuli Adelstein submitted his resignation hours before the deadline set by the Supreme Court to hold parliamentary elections that would determine his successor. “I announce my resignation from my position as the Knesset speaker,” announced Adelstein, who is one of the leaders of the Likud party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech at the Knesset Hall. Adelstein attacked the […]
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The Chief Justice of the United States One First Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20543 March 11, 2020 Dear Chief Justice Roberts: I hereby resign my membership in the Supreme Court Bar. This was not an easy decision. I have been a member of the Supreme Court Bar since 1972, far longer than you have, and appeared before the Court, both in person and on briefs, on […]
One hour after the close of another one of the most tumultuous weeks in Wall Street history, Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, resigned from the company’s board. Earlier today, Gates stepped down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by his friend and fellow billionaire, Warren Buffett. Both men have been in the press a lot lately amid the market turmoil (Buffett) […]
India 09:34 GMT 10.03.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s opposition Congress Party barely managed to form a government in Madhya Pradesh after the provincial legislature elections in 2018, with Kamal Nath as Chief. But a faction of the legislators, led by Jyotiraditya Scindia was unhappy, with his claim to the leadership ignored by the party. On Tuesday, the crisis-ridden Congress Party received a jolt, when […]
The UN Envoy and head of its Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has resigned after two-and-a-half years in the job. A UN spokesperson confirmed that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received Ghassan Salame’s resignation. Guterres will be “discussing a smooth transition” so as not to lose the momentum that Salame has created. The former Lebanese government minister and veteran UN advisor tweeted on 2 March that his […]
The UN special envoy for Libya has resigned from his position of three years, over concerns for his health. In a tweet, former Lebanese culture minister, Ghassan Salame, cited stress as the reason for his decision to step down. “For two years, I tried to re-unite Libyans and restrain foreign interference […] but for health reasons I can no longer continue with this level of stress,” […]
Longtime MSNBC host Chris Matthews announced on air Monday night that he was resigning following a slew of on-air fumbles and allegations that he made sexually inappropriate remarks to a political columnist in 2016. “I’m retiring,” he said. “This is the last Hardball on MSNBC, and obviously this isn’t for lack of interest in politics.” Over the past several weeks, the cable news veteran has been under increasing scrutiny due […]
A surrogate for Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign was, in her words in a group chat, “forced to resign” on Monday from Pennsylvania Young Democrats after promoting a doctored video of fellow 2020 contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and for allegedly sharing anti-Semitic tweets about him and his online supporters. Lindy Li previously served as the treasurer for the Pennsylvania Young Democrats, a position she has since admittedly […]
A freshly appointed adviser to British PM Boris Johnson has stepped down amid a wave of outrage triggered by past comments calling for forced contraception, feeding children brain-boosting drugs and speaking in praise of eugenics. Self-styled political “superforecaster” Andrew Sabisky tended his resignation on Monday over the series of controversial remarks, maintaining he did not want to be a “distraction” to Johnson’s government. “The media hysteria […]
The “collective resignation” of the management team behind the Cesars Awards has been announced just two weeks before the ceremony, following protests over elitism and nominations given to statutory rapist Roman Polanski. In explaining their leaving the Cesars only 15 days before the actual ceremony, the board managing the prizes for the French Academy of Arts and Technology of Cinema explained they are walking away to […]
The head of the Iowa Democratic Party resigned on Wednesday after this month’s botched caucus – in which a delegate calculation app developed by ex-Clinton and Obama staffers failed miserably, and backup procedures to phone in results manually overloaded the IDP’s resources. “While it is my desire to stay in this role and see this process through to completion, I do believe it is time for […]