Tag Archives: Parliament

[ad_1] The Sri Lankan parliament on Wednesday rejected the government of formerly strongman Mahinda Rajapakse, which had been controversial, eliminating a controversial figure but triggering a new confrontation with a hostile president. …

[ad_1] COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president has dissolved Parliament and called for elections on Jan. 5 in a bid to stave off a deepening political crisis over his dismissal of …

[ad_1] The party of Sri Lanka’s dismissed prime minister has said it will file a legal challenge to President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament, which escalated the country’s political uncertainty and drew …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – In the run-up to Tuesday's decisive mid-term elections (Nov. 6), Democrats retain their edge in the battle for the House, but Republicans could be encouraged by further …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS – The European Parliament on Oct. 25 backed a resolution to stiffen its sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin continues to escalate tensions in the Azov Sea. The joint resolution …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Aljunied-Hougang (AHTC) former president of the city council, Sylvia Lim, "misled everyone" and lied that the city council needed to modernize its own computer system because a computer company had …

[ad_1] The former consigliere of Trump, Steve Bannon, has a new project. He wants to rally the whole of the European far right to take down the EU – and he is …

[ad_1] by Associated Press July 23 at 3:25 pm TORONTO – The last on a mass shot in Toronto (all time local): 3:15 pm Canadian officials a man with a knife was …

[ad_1] KUCHING (BERNAMA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad confirmed on Sunday that former appeal court president Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof would be named president of parliament at the first session of …

[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – An airship depicting Mr. Donald Trump in the form of an orange baby wearing a diaper flew in front of the British Parliament in London on Friday, July …