Iran Iran's Foreign Minister announces resignation on Instagram Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stepped down on Monday, announcing his resignation on Instagram. "I am apologising to you for all the shortcomings...in the past years during my time as foreign minister ... I thank the Iranian nation and officials," he wrote. 25/02/2019
Greece Greece's foreign minister resigns Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias was Athen’s main negotiator regarding the June accord with Skopje to rename Greece’s northern neighbour North Macedonia 17/10/2018
world news Pope Francis orders an investigation of an American bishop accused of sexual misconduct It comes as the Pope was meeting with American Catholic Church leaders to discuss the fallout from the scandal and demands from an archbishop that the pontiff should step down 13/09/2018
Georgia Georgia's PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili resigns Prime Minister Kvirikashvili resigns over "different points of view" with ruling party and amidst a month of anti-government protests. 13/06/2018
South Korea "Nut rage" sisters step down from Korean Air One of them flew into a rage when her nuts were served in a packet instead of a bowl, and the other stands accused of throwing water in someone's face: the daughters of Korean Air's chief have been forced to stand down from the company. 22/04/2018
Slovakia Slovak PM offers to resign to quell country's protests Slovak PM Robert Fico has offered to resign, but only if his party gets to choose his successor. The country has experienced mass protests since the murder of a journalist investigating corruption. 15/03/2018
Slovakia Slovak journalist murder: Interior Minister resigns Robert Kalinak's departure comes amid growing public anger at the killing of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova last month. 12/03/2018
world news Slovak Minister Marek Madaric quits following murder of Jan Kuciak Marek Madaric said the resignation was his personal decision, and not influenced by anyone else. He said as the culture minister he could not accept the fact that a journalist was killed during his tenure. 28/02/2018
Spain Mas quits party leadership and fires Catalonian independence warning Former Catalonian president says failure to score more than 50% in election means independence best kept off the agenda in the short term. 09/01/2018
Zimbabwe Harare erupts with joy as Robert Mugabe accepts his fate Mugabe resigns as Zimbabwe's president after losing cabinet and party support. 21/11/2017
United Kingdom British minister Priti Patel quits over secret meetings in Israel UK's aid minister is summoned to Downing Street and forced to resign over unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials. 09/11/2017
Korea Samsung CEO announces shock resignation The boss of Samsung has announced his surprise resignation on the back of record Q3 profits. 13/10/2017
Romania Romanian PM Sorin Grindeanu refuses to resign amid crisis Romanian PM Sorin Grindeanu refuses to quit amid government crisis 15/06/2017
USA Uber director resigns after sexist remark Uber’s director David Bonderman has resigned after making a sexist remark at a staff meeting in San Francisco. He made the comment at an all-staff 14/06/2017
Czech Republic Czech Prime Minister Sobotka reneges on threat to quit over rival The Czech Prime Minister has made an about turn in his battle to remove his finance minister. 05/05/2017
Malta Malta PM calls snap election Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has called a snap general election for June 3, a year before the end of his term. 01/05/2017
South Africa South Africa: Zuma not stressed by protests calling for him to quit South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has said he is not stressed by calls for him to quit, hours after more than 30,000 people marched in the country’s capital… 12/04/2017
France French interior minister quits over jobs scandal Bruno Le Roux denies he has done anything wrong but says he does not want the scandal to affect the government's work. 21/03/2017
USA Russia says Flynn resignation engineered by opponents of good US-Russian relations Russian politicians have been quick to defend Mike Flynn, Donald Trump's national security advisor, who has resigned. They claim he has been forced out by those seeking to ruin better US-Russian relat 14/02/2017
Japan Toshiba on the rocks after Japanese giant reveals huge losses Japanese household name Toshiba is in crisis after huge losses and the possible sell-off of its nuclear division, threatening a new nuclear plant project in the UK. 14/02/2017
Romania Romanian justice minister quits over corruption decree Romanian justice minister resigns over corruption decree and public outrage 09/02/2017
Romania Romanian minister quits over government corruption stance *NB: an updated version of Thursday’s events in Romania is available here. 02/02/2017
Netherlands Dutch minister resigns over cash deal with convicted drug dealer Dutch justice minister quits over cash deal with drugs trafficker 27/01/2017
United Kingdom Martin McGuinness quits politics due to serious illness Martin McGuinness former IRA leader quits politics 19/01/2017
Gambia Last ditch efforts to persuade Gambia's President Jammeh to quit fail Last minute diplomatic efforts by Mauritania to persuade Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh to step down appear to have failed. 19/01/2017
