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Jon Huntsman to quit GOP presidential race (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman descends stairs during an event at Virginia's on King restaurant, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Charleston, S.C. Huntsman will withdraw Monday, Jan. 16 from the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Campaign officials tell The Associated Press Huntsman will endorse Mitt Romney at an event in South Carolina on Monday morning. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Jon Huntsman will withdraw Monday from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign manager told The Associated Press on Sunday.


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Campaign officials: Huntsman to quit GOP race (AP)

AP – Jon Huntsman will withdraw Monday from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, campaign officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.

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Book: Petraeus almost quit over Afghan drawdown (AP)

FILE - In this June 23, 2011 file photo, CIA Director nominee Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee during a hearing on his nomination. A new book says general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus almost quit over President Barack Obama’s decision to quickly draw down forces from Afghanistan.  (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP – Four-star general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus almost resigned as Afghanistan war commander over President Barack Obama’s decision to quickly draw down surge forces, according to a new insider’s look at Petraeus’ 37-year Army career.


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Yemen president of 33 years to quit amid uprising (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, center, with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, and his Yemeni counterpart Ali Abdullah Saleh, left, pose during a group picture with Arab and African leaders during the second  Afro-Arab summit in Sirte, Libya. Saleh has signed an agreement to transfer power to his vice president. Saleh was shown on Arabic satellite television stations Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011signing a proposal by his country's powerful Gulf Arab neighbors to end his country's 9-month old uprising. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)AP – Yemen’s authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed Wednesday to step down after a fierce uprising to oust him from 33 years in power. The U.S. and its powerful Gulf allies pressed for the deal, concerned that a security collapse in the impoverished Arab nation was allowing an active al-Qaida franchise to gain a firmer foothold.


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JoePa will quit at the end of the season

Saying he is devastated by the sex-abuse scandal enveloping the Penn State football program and university, Joe Paterno, whose 46-year tenure at the helm of the Nittany Lions has been one of the most successful in the history of college football, will step down at the end of this season.

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Pressure mounts on Italy’s Berlusconi to quit (AP)

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pauses before speaking during a media conference at a G20 summit in Cannes, France on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Leaders from within troubled Europe and far beyond are working Friday on ways the International Monetary Fund could do more to calm Europe's debt crisis. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP – Pressure mounted on Premier Silvio Berlusconi to resign so a new government could pass the economic reforms Italy needs to avoid financial disaster, as the country’s borrowing rates spiked Monday and talk of early elections intensified.


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Obama: Assad is slaughtering his people, must quit (AP)

In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, Syrian soldiers salute residents as they sit atop their armored personnel carrier on their way out of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. State-run news agency SANA said army units began withdrawing from Deir el-Zour Tuesday after ridding the city of 'armed terrorist gangs' in an operation that lasted several days. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP – President Barack Obama says the time has come for Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign for the sake of his brutally repressed people.


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