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8/20/2022 11:46:47 AM
Senior UK Conservative lawmaker Michael Gove on Saturday accused party leadership contender Liz Truss of taking a "holiday from reality" with her plans to cut taxes amid a cost-of-living crisis.
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International
8/15/2022 10:03:26 AM
China said Monday it had organised fresh military drills around Taiwan, as a delegation of visiting United States lawmakers were set to meet the island's leader just weeks after a similar trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heightened fears of conflict.
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World
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8/14/2022 3:19:57 PM
A delegation of American lawmakers is visiting Taiwan just 12 days after a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China.
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Business
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Tech
7/27/2022 7:59:20 PM
A bill designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States passed the Senate on Wednesday as lawmakers raced to finish work on a key priority of the Biden administration.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
7/21/2022 11:28:41 AM
The message to U.S. lawmakers from Ukraine's first lady, delivered amid stark and graphic images of civilian bloodshed, couldn't have been clearer: After nearly five full months since Russia launched its invasion, Olena Zelenska said that her country needs more Western weapons.
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International
7/18/2022 9:28:31 AM
Sri Lanka's acting president on Monday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country's lawmakers are set to elect a new president.
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International
7/12/2022 1:07:58 PM
Sri Lanka's leaders agreed that lawmakers will elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lead the bankrupt country out of a economic and political collapse.
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World
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International
7/8/2022 12:48:27 PM
A field of candidates to replace departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson began to take shape Friday, even as some Conservative Party lawmakers pushed to get the scandal-tarnished leader out of office before his replacement is elected in the next couple of months.
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Africa
7/6/2022 9:04:06 PM
Ethiopian lawmakers decided on Wednesday to set up a committee to investigate "inhumane" acts against civilians, after reports of massacres in a restive area in the west of the country.
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Region
6/23/2022 8:54:37 PM
Lebanon's lawmakers designated incumbent Prime Minister Najib Mikati to form a new government Thursday, more than a month after parliamentary elections that yielded no clear majority.
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International
6/23/2022 6:49:53 PM
Lawmakers investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol were set Thursday to lay out Donald Trump's efforts to turn the Justice Department into his "own personal" law firm in his bid to overturn his election defeat.
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Region
6/23/2022 3:50:14 PM
Iraq's Parliament is set to hold a session Thursday to vote in replacements for 73 lawmakers who resigned earlier this month. The collective walkout by followers of Iraq's most influential Shia politician threw Iraq into further uncertainty, deepening a months-long political crisis over government formation.
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World
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International
6/22/2022 9:32:04 PM
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months, an election-year move meant to ease financial pressures that was greeted with doubts by many lawmakers.
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International
6/22/2022 1:22:45 PM
Sri Lanka's debt-laden economy has ``collapsed'' after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, its prime minister told lawmakers Wednesday, in comments underscoring the country's dire situation as it seeks help from international lenders.
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World
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Africa
6/15/2022 10:21:51 PM
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud appointed lawmaker Hamza Abdi Barre as the country's prime minister on Wednesday, with the new premier facing a host of challenges including a looming famine and an Islamist insurgency.
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World
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International
6/12/2022 10:25:58 AM
French voters are choosing lawmakers in a parliamentary election Sunday as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to secure his majority while under growing threat from a leftist coalition.
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World
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Region
6/11/2022 7:08:28 PM
Hundreds of people and several lawmakers protested Saturday in southern Lebanon against Israel moving a gas production vessel into an offshore field partly claimed by Beirut.
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World
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Region
6/9/2022 6:22:56 PM
Iraq's firebrand Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr made a high-stakes protest Thursday by calling on the 73 lawmakers loyal to him to ready resignation papers to end an eight-month parliamentary paralysis.
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World
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International
6/9/2022 1:30:03 PM
Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, like a dream come true for an aging generation of pot smokers who recall the kick delivered by the legendary Thai Stick variety.
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World
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International
6/6/2022 10:23:48 AM
At least 10 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded in four shootings across the United States this weekend, as lawmakers struggle to respond to the country's long-running epidemic of gun violence.
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