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Kuwait PM submits resignation of cabinet in tussle with parliament
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf al-Sabah on Monday submitted the resignation of his cabinet to the country’s crown prince, state news agency ... Gulf -
Lebanese MPs sleep in Parliament to press for end to impasse
Two independent Lebanese lawmakers have spent the night in parliament to press for the election of a new president, as factional deadlock leaves the ... Middle East -
Senegal lawmakers get 6-month jail sentence for assaulting colleague
A court in Senegal sentenced two lawmakers on Monday to six months in jail for assaulting a pregnant colleague on Dec. 1 during an acrimonious ... World News -
Germany arrests members of far-right group suspected of planning to overthrow state
German authorities on Wednesday detained 25 members and supporters of a far-right group that the prosecutor’s office said were preparing a violent ... World News -
Lebanon fails to elect president for third time amid financial meltdown
Lebanon's parliament failed to elect a president for the third time on Thursday, bringing the country closer to institutional deadlock amid a deep ... Middle East -
Kuwait Crown Prince accepts government resignation following elections
Kuwait’s Cown Prince accepted the government’s resignation on Sunday following a parliamentary election in the Gulf Arab country in which opposition ... Gulf -
Kuwait to hold parliamentary election on September 29: Report
Kuwait will hold a parliamentary election on Sept. 29, state news agency KUNA reported, after the Gulf state’s crown prince moved to dissolve ... Gulf -
Damaged, UK’s Boris Johnson scrapes win in party confidence vote
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote on Monday but a large rebellion in his Conservative Party over the so-called ... World News -
Israel’s government loses key settler vote in setback for coalition
Israel’s government suffered a defeat at the hands of the opposition Monday which voted down a push to uphold Israeli law in settlements on the ... Middle East -
Israeli PM’s government limps into new parliament session
The government of Israel’s embattled prime minister was limping on Monday into the opening of parliament’s summer session on the verge of collapse.For ... Middle East -
Somalia parliament picks Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as new speaker
Somalia’s lawmakers elected Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as their new speaker on Thursday, in a vote that was delayed most of the previous day due to ... World News -
YouTube blocks Russian parliament channel, draws ire from officials
YouTube has blocked Duma TV which broadcasts from Russia’s lower house of parliament, drawing an angry response from officials who said the world’s ... World News -
Sri Lanka ruling coalition loses majority amid protests
At least 41 Sri Lankan lawmakers walked out of the ruling coalition on Tuesday, leaving the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a minority ... World News -
Tunisian crisis escalates as president dissolves parliament
Tunisian President Kais Saied late on Wednesday issued a decree dissolving parliament, which has been suspended since last year, after it defied him ... North Africa -
Tunisia’s president warns against attempts to hold sessions of suspended parliament
Tunisia’s president warned late on Monday against attempts to hold sessions of the suspended parliament saying forces and institutions will confront ... North Africa -
Kuwait government proposes raising retirement age
Kuwait’s government proposed gradually raising the retirement age by three years starting from 2024, its finance minister Abulwahab Mohammed ... Gulf -
Iraq assembly postpones presidential vote indefinitely: Official
Iraq’s parliament on Monday indefinitely postponed the scheduled election of the national president, an official said, after only 58 of the 329 ... Middle East -
South Africa parliament fire under control: Firefighters
The huge fire that destroyed a large part of South Africa’s parliament has been brought under control, firefighters told AFP on Monday.For the latest ... World News -
Fire breaks out at South African parliament building in Cape Town
A major fire broke out in the South African parliament building in Cape Town on Sunday, said AFP reporters at the scene.For the latest headlines, ... World News -
Fumio Kishida reelected as Japanese PM
Fumio Kishida was reelected as Japan’s prime minister Wednesday after his governing party scored a major victory in key parliamentary elections.For ... World News -
Japan PM dissolves lower house for Oct. 31 national election
Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, paving the way for Oct. 31 national elections.For the ... World News -
IRGC generals urge Iranian parliament to pass a bill limiting Instagram
Generals in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have urged parliament to pass the Legislation to Protect Cyberspace Users’ Rights, a proposed bill which aims ... Technology -
Britain’s ‘secret parliament’ celebrates its 80-year anniversary
Eighty years ago on Thursday, British lawmakers driven from their debating chamber by World War Two Nazi bombs secretly set up a new home less than ... World News -
Kuwait assembly backs budget but political feud rumbles on
Kuwait’s parliament approved the 2021-22 state budget on Tuesday but failed to quell a bad-tempered standoff between government and opposition that ... Gulf -
Armenia holds parliamentary elections dominated by Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
Armenia holds parliamentary elections Sunday after a campaign dominated by bitter divisions over last year’s war defeat to Azerbaijan and the fate of ... World News -
Algerian parliamentary election results expected within few days: Voting authority
The results of an Algerian parliamentary election in which fewer than a third of voters took part will be announced within a few days, the head of the ... North Africa -
Israeli opposition leader tapped to form new government
Israel’s president on Wednesday tapped opposition leader Yair Lapid to form a new government — a step that could lead to the end of the lengthy rule ... Middle East -
Turkey debates draft law that would increase oversight of NGOs
Turkey’s parliament began debating a draft law on Friday that would increase oversight of non-governmental organizations and which, according to ... Middle East -
Police fire tear gas on pro-Kurdish protesters in northwest Turkey
Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets on Monday at pro-Kurdish protesters who had gathered in support of opposition lawmakers who had been ... Middle East -
Turkey’s parliament strips status of three opposition MPs
Turkey’s parliament stripped two pro-Kurdish lawmakers and one MP from the main opposition party of their parliamentary status on Thursday after ... Middle East
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