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Plans for a $8 billion train link from Vietnam’s main northern port city to the Chinese border were approved by the country’s parliament on Wednesday, strengthening ties between the two communist nations and facilitating trade. According...

Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, who...

In an interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly (the Turkish parliament), Numan Kurtulmus, stated that the world as a whole will gain from Turkey’s potential membership in...

Germany’s highest court on Tuesday largely approved plans to shrink the country’s parliament, despite objections from smaller parties who say the reform is unfair to them. The conservative CSU and far-left Die Linke had appealed to...

The government has been requested to guarantee that women with disabilities are represented in the National Parliament's reserved seats by the National Council of Disabled Women (NCDW) and Protibondhi Nagorik Songghothoner Porishodh (PNSP). They made this...

On January 30, the 12th parliament will convene for the first time. President Mohammed Shahabuddin convened the parliament session utilizing his power given upon him as per clause (1) of article 72 of the constitution, said...

According to law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, Pakistan’s parliament has passed a new legislation to limit the chief justice of the Supreme Court’s authority. This comes amid a dispute between the government and the higher judiciary....

After disagreements with the opposition-led parliament, the Kuwaiti government resigned on Monday. Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the resignation of the government from Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, according to the...

A year after a high-profile rape allegation shook Australia’s parliament, the country’s prime leader apologized for rampant sexual harassment, abuse, and intimidation of political workers on Tuesday. Scott Morrison apologized directly to former staffer Brittany Higgins,...

Malaysia’s parliament met for the first time this year on Monday after being halted due to a coronavirus outbreak, but critics have branded the session as a charade that would not genuinely test Prime Minister Najib...