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Egypt
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Politics
9/21/2025 10:24:39 PM
Egypt’s House of Representatives will convene on Wednesday, 1 October, to examine President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s directive to return the draft Criminal Procedure Law to parliament for further review.
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Egypt
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Politics
9/21/2025 7:04:40 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has referred the draft Criminal Procedure Law back to the House of Representatives for reconsideration, following objections raised over several of its articles, the presidency announced on Sunday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/18/2025 3:49:29 PM
In an unprecedented parliamentary event for the Mediterranean region, the city of Sharm El-Sheikh hosted the meetings of the Parliament of the Union for the Mediterranean (PA-UfM) from September 11 to 13, chaired by Mohamed Abou El-Enein, Deputy Speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives, who represented Egypt.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/18/2025 11:32:18 AM
King Felipe VI of Spain held separate meetings on Wednesday with Egyptian House of Representatives Speaker Hanafy El-Gabaly and Senate Speaker Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razek to discuss strengthening parliamentary cooperation between Egypt and Spain.
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World
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International
9/9/2025 2:38:46 PM
Nepali youth protesters set fire to parliament on Tuesday as the veteran prime minister obeyed furious crowds to quit, a day after one of the deadliest crackdowns in years in which at least 19 people were killed.
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World
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International
9/8/2025 8:49:28 PM
France's parliament on Monday ousted the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after just nine months in office, leaving President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a successor and plunging the country into a new political crisis.
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World
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International
9/8/2025 2:50:08 PM
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was set to fall in a confidence vote in parliament on Monday after just nine months in the job, sparking fresh political uncertainty for France and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/6/2025 10:04:08 AM
Hundreds of candidates have been prevented from running in Iraq’s parliamentary elections by the country’s Independent High Electoral Commission.
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World
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Region
8/31/2025 8:12:15 PM
Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has defended Hezbollah’s arsenal as the Lebanese people’s “honour and pride”, while saying the group’s disarmament could be discussed “under a calm discourse.”
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World
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International
8/30/2025 5:06:21 PM
A former Ukrainian speaker of parliament who was a leading figure in the country's pro-European protest movements in 2004 and 2014 was shot dead on Saturday in western Ukraine, officials said.
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World
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Region
8/29/2025 3:46:01 PM
Turkey has given a parliamentary commission until the end of the year to lay the groundwork for a peace process with the Kurdish militant group PKK, the speaker of parliament said Friday.
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World
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International
8/27/2025 7:20:58 PM
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday that the European Union is holding a door open for Moldova, a day before campaigning starts for next month's parliamentary election there.
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World
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Region
8/24/2025 10:47:25 PM
Syria's Kurds on Sunday criticised the upcoming selection of members of a new transitional parliament as undemocratic, after authorities postponed the process for Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and northeast.
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World
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Region
8/23/2025 7:04:53 PM
A Syrian official said Saturday that the selection process planned for a transitional parliament next month will be postponed in Druze-majority Sweida and two Kurdish-held provinces.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/9/2025 10:26:00 PM
London police arrested more than 365 Palestine Action supporters during a protest in Parliament Square against a government ban on the group and Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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World
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Region
8/6/2025 2:16:09 PM
Judges have requested permission from Italy's parliament to bring proceedings against two government ministers over the release of a Libyan wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), reports said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
7/27/2025 11:19:40 PM
Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organizing the election process told state media Sunday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/27/2025 10:35:50 AM
A minor opposition party in the British parliament on Sunday threatened to bring forward legislation on recognising Palestinian statehood and "force a vote" if Prime Minister Keir Starmer continues to oppose the move.
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Opinion
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Opinion
7/23/2025 9:43:10 AM
Egypt anticipates two significant political developments in the second half of this year. These are the elections of the two chambers of parliament: the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
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World
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International
7/20/2025 3:59:55 PM
Exit polls show Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba 's ruling coalition is likely to lose a majority in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election Sunday, worsening the country's political instability.
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