DAMASCUS — Syria on Monday rejected the Arab League’s wide-ranging proposal to end the country’s 10-month crisis, saying the call for President Bashar al-Assad to leave office after a unity government is formed amounts to “blatant interference” in Syria’s national affairs. Read full article > >
The rest is here:
Assad’s government rejects Arab League calls for him to step down
DAMASCUS — The Arab League on Sunday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his vice president under the terms of a transition plan similar to that which paved the way for the departure, hours earlier, of Yemen’s president for the United States. Read full article > >
Read more here:
Arab League calls on Syria’s Assad to step down
Michele Flournoy, the Defense Department’s undersecretary for policy and one of the most senior women civilians ever to serve at the Pentagon, said Monday that she is stepping down early next year. Flournoy, 50, has a relatively low public profile but has been influential since the start of the Obama administration in shaping defense policy toward emerging threats and formulating counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. In recent months, she has assembled a team to plan for the future U.S. military role in Afghanistan after the departure of combat troops at the end of 2014. Read full article > >
Read more here:
Pentagon’s Michele Flournoy to step down
Executive Officer Thomas Glocer to step down for James C. Smith.
See more here:
Shakeup at Thomson Reuters
BEIRUT — Turkey’s prime minister on Tuesday called for the first time for Bashar al-Assad to step down, in a fiery speech that likened the Syrian leader to Hitler and Mussolini and marked the final crumbling of Turkish-Syrian relations, according to analysts. “Without spilling any more blood, without causing any more injustice, for the sake of peace for the people, the country and the region, finally step down,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging Assad to look to the fate of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who was toppled by an internationally backed uprising and, last month, was killed . Read full article > >
More:
Turkey urges Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down
All political careers end in failure, a British politician once said. Even so, politicians rarely fail as spectacularly as did Silvio Berlusconi, who at long last resigned Saturday night, to the cheers of his countrymen (“la commedia è finita!” writes an Italian friend) and the approval of stock markets around the world. Read full article > >
Read more here:
Why Berlusconi’s reign should be a lesson to revolutionaries everywhere
Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the head of the civil service, is to step down from his post at the end of the year.
Read the original post:
UK’s top civil servant steps down
Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington is to step down from his position after Tuesday night’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Italy.
Read more from the original source:
Worthington steps down as NI boss
White House staff discussed in e-mails that either President Obama or his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel were eager to help spotlight a solar company in early 2009, despite numerous internal warnings that the company could be financially unstable, according to newly obtained e-mails. The administration was working to arrange a way for Obama to headline a news conference in early September to announce that Solyndra of Fremont, Calif., had won a $535 million government loan to spur clean energy firms — the first his administration had provided. Read full article > >
More here:
Push to highlight Solyndra came from top levels of White House, according to e-mails
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will not step down as promised if his opponents are allowed to stand in elections to succeed him.
SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Sunday made no pledge to step down immediately in his first public address since returning to Yemen , but he called for early elections and declared that he was still committed to an internationally-backed plan to transfer power. “Let’s all go towards dialogue, understanding and peaceful exchange of power through elections and early presidential elections,” he said in the 20-minute-long broadcast speech. Read full article > >
View original post here:
Saleh addresses nation, calls for Yemen elections
BEIRUT — Syria’s president said Sunday he was “not worried” about security in his country and warned against any foreign military intervention in a speech designed to portray confidence as the regime comes under blistering international condemnation for its crackdown on dissent. The remarks by Bashar Assad, who spoke during an interview with state-run television, came just days after the United States and its European allies called for him to step down, and hours after a diplomat said Assad’s regime was “scrubbing blood off the streets” ahead of a U.N. visit. Read full article > >
See the original post here:
Syria’s Assad repeats reform vows, claims of foreign-fueled unrest; says he’s ‘not worried’
Greek Prime Minister Papandreou said he will shuffle his cabinet and seek a vote of confidence from Parliament after talks to form a national unity government failed. Papandreou had proposed to step down earlier Wednesday if the opposition party would…
See the original post:
Greek PM to Form New Government
Assad’s government rejects Arab League calls for him to step down
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Why Berlusconi’s reign should be a lesson to revolutionaries everywhere
Monday, November 14th, 2011Push to highlight Solyndra came from top levels of White House, according to e-mails
Friday, October 7th, 2011Syria’s Assad repeats reform vows, claims of foreign-fueled unrest; says he’s ‘not worried’
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
