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Kelly’s Law has passed parliament which will disqualify the licences of people facing dangerous driving charges.

Kelly’s Law has passed parliament which will disqualify the licences of people facing dangerous driving charges.

Following the attack on federal independent MP Helen Haines, NSW state MPs were offered a security briefing from police and parliamentary security. Not all of them got the answers they hoped for.

Albanian lawmakers have scuffled in parliament, throwing objects at one another and ripping microphones from desks.

Members of the European Parliament on Thursday called on the European Union to list Yemen's Houthis as a terror group, citing destruction caused in Gulf states. Lead negotiator Hana Jalloul , from the group of socialists and democrats, said she extended her “full solidarity with the people of Yemen and Gulf countries”. “We did it!” Ms Jalloul wrote on X, aft

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla sidesteps all questions regarding the delay in proroguing the Monsoon Session of Parliament and speculation about a special sitting to deliberate on delimitation legislation.

The group of Ursula von der Leyen breached the cordon sanitaire to demand a three-year halt to the new climate law.

Court nominated by center-left weeks after sanctions imposed by Donald Trump.

SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- A parliamentary committee adopted a confirmation hear...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — The Air Pollutant Index (API) readings issued by the Department of Environment (DOE) remain...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — The last signals emitted from the mobile phones of the missing Malaysians in Nepal were tra...

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged British investors to explore opportunities in Nigeria, assuring them of a profitable and improved business clim Read More: https://punchng.com/akpabio-woos-uk-investors-seeks-stronger-parliamentary-ties/

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<p>Met police investigating after referral from PSNI about allegation former DUP leader raped woman in 2016</p><p>The Metropolitan police are investigating an allegation that the former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman inside parliament in 2016.</p><p>Scotland Yard confirmed it received a report from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on

Authorities searched the Patriots for Europe's European Parliament offices in a long-running funding inquiry. The group says the charges pertain to its predecessor and there is "no legal continuity" between the two.

Egypt on Wednesday rejected the Libyan House of Representatives’ ratification of a 2019 maritime memorandum with Türkiye, saying the move has no legal effect on Cairo and reiterating its opposition to any action that conflicts with Egypt’s declared maritime boundaries. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Cairo continued to regard the memorandum, signed by the form

Convicted paedophile was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual offences against two women when they were children

<p>Measures would remove some penalties for those helping women access abortion but are ‘small-scale step’, say campaigners</p><p>Poland’s lower house of parliament has approved two bills aimed at loosening a near-total ban on abortions, in what campaigners have described as a “small-scale step” ahead of protests calling on the government to fulfil its promi

While not naming the disgraced former MP, the Metropolitan Police has issued a statement confirming a 63-year-old man is being investigated.

Searches are part of an investigation into allegations of mismanagement of funds by the now-defunct ID group.

SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Yonhap) -- The Constitutional Court on Wednesday granted an inju...

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Greece has rejected the approval by Libya’s eastern parliament of a maritime agreement with Turkey, saying the deal breaches international law and infringes on the sovereign rights of countries in the eastern Mediterranean. Libya is divided between two governments, one in the west, based in Tripoli and another in the east in Benghazi. The deal was originally

Police are investigating former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson over an allegation that he raped a woman in the Houses of Parliament, the PA news agency reports.

More than 300 university students and staff march on Parliament House to protest a controversial plan to merge three of Western Australia's four public universities.

SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Yonhap) -- The ruling Democratic Party (DP) said Wednesday it is...

In an address at the Queensland Press Club, David Crisafulli spruiked his government's measures aimed at cracking down on youth crime as the LNP approaches two years in office.

<p>IN a democracy, parliament is not only supposed to legislate; it is also expected to safeguard the national interest and deliberate on key policy matters. That criterion does not seem to apply to our parliament. One seldom witnesses a major foreign or national security issue being deliberated by the ‘representatives’ of the people, and there is hardly any