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3/19/2023 9:47:46 PM
Iran and Bahrain will reopen their embassies in Manama and Tehran in the near future, an Iranian lawmaker said, according to the semi-official Tasneem news agency.
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3/19/2023 12:15:42 PM
A Kuwaiti court on Sunday annulled the results of a parliamentary election held last year, saying it would reinstate the previous slate of lawmakers elected in 2020, according to the state news agency.
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3/15/2023 7:10:01 PM
A joint committee of Senate and National Assembly lawmakers has validated French President Emmanuel Macron's pension plan, meaning it could be submitted to votes by both houses of Parliament on Thursday, unless his government chooses to impose the changes in the meantime.
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3/15/2023 6:40:23 PM
The Wagner chief said Wednesday that Russians should be allowed to criticize top military commanders after lawmakers tightened penalties for discrediting forces fighting in Ukraine.
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2/28/2023 9:35:13 PM
There is "no evidence" Ukraine is misusing the tens of billions in aid provided since Russia invaded last year, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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2/26/2023 2:29:18 PM
Egypt’s speaker of parliament headed to Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad, among a delegation of Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union. The trip follows a mini-summit in Baghdad that affirmed the Arab League's intentions of bringing Syria back into the region's fold in the wake of the devastating quake that hit the country.
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2/21/2023 1:05:50 PM
Taiwan will boost military exchanges with the United States to curb "authoritarian expansionism", President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday after meeting with visiting US lawmakers.
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2/20/2023 10:34:03 AM
A delegation of U.S. lawmakers met with the head of Taiwan's legislature on Monday as part of a five-day visit to the self-ruled island that comes as U.S.-China relations remain tense after weeks of trading accusations over a spy balloon.
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2/16/2023 12:50:52 PM
China's ceremonial parliament has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the U.S. passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon's intrusion into U.S. airspace.
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2/11/2023 7:11:54 PM
Prosecutors on Saturday charged a Belgian lawmaker in the European parliament with corruption after searching his bank safe as part of a probe into a bribery scandal linked to Qatar that has rocked the EU.
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1/28/2023 10:39:56 PM
Peru's embattled president Dina Boluarte on Saturday urged lawmakers to find a way of a deepening political crisis by agreeing to snap elections in December, just hours after Congress voted against the idea.
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1/23/2023 7:48:17 PM
Moroccan lawmakers on Monday unanimously rejected a European Parliament resolution urging the kingdom to respect press freedom.
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1/21/2023 5:38:18 PM
A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Missouri's abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don't share them.
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1/20/2023 5:40:03 PM
Two independent Lebanese lawmakers who spent the night in parliament vowed Friday to stay until MPs elect a new president, as political deadlock hobbles the country already in deep economic crisis.
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1/13/2023 3:25:12 PM
Israel's outgoing army chief on Friday warned against plans by Benjamin Netanyahu's new coalition to grant more control to pro-settler lawmakers and make other changes to the Israeli security establishment, joining a loud chorus of criticism against the new right-wing government.
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1/10/2023 11:04:56 PM
The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as US lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following his supporters' brazen attack on Brazil's capital over the weekend.
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1/2/2023 7:04:00 PM
The president of the European Parliament has launched an urgent procedure to waive the immunity of two lawmakers following a request from Belgian judicial authorities investigating a major corruption scandal rocking EU politics.
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Tech
12/20/2022 7:28:15 PM
TikTok would be banned from most US government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.
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12/19/2022 9:23:00 PM
Lawmakers probing last year's deadly assault on the US Capitol held a final public meeting Monday that is expected to end in a vote on whether to recommend criminal charges against former president Donald Trump.
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12/17/2022 6:06:38 PM
Peru's caretaker president, Dina Boluarte, chastised lawmakers for not endorsing widespread calls for early elections as a way out of a deepening political crisis triggered when the ousted Pedro Castillo tried to shut down Congress.
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