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BBC News
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Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says.
Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government.
His party won the second..
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MSNBC
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Turkey’s Parliament on Wednesday was expected to approve a possible cross-border military incursion into northern Iraq to chase separatist Kurdish rebels despite international calls for restraint.
Turkish leaders have stressed that an offensive again..
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Alter Net
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More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story.
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's..
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Al Jazeera
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Erdogan's party was elected to an overwhelming majority in parliament and can appoint whoever it wants to the presidency.
If he does decide to run, Erdogan's own popularity and his party's firm control over parliament will mean his opponents will have..
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USA Today
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Iraqi lawmakers expressed outrage and resolve Friday in a rare session of parliament on the Muslim holy day, a day after a suicide bomber ripped through their cafeteria in a brazen attack inside Baghdad's U.S.-guarded Green Zone.
A red and white bouque..
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Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera has also learnt that three female MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr's parliamentary list were wounded in the explosion, along with three members of the United Iraq Alliance, the main Shia bloc in the parliament.
No US casualties
A spokesman..
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CNN
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An apparent suicide bomber detonated inside a cafeteria in Iraq's parliament building on Thursday, killing two lawmakers and wounding 10 others -- including three lawmakers, an Iraqi official said.
The parliament building is in Baghdad's heavily fortif..
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SF Gate
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Barring a surprise early release, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is preparing to go public in Parliament as soon as today with concrete evidence that Iran violated international law in seizing 15 British military personnel, after behind-the-scenes dipl..
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Time
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The news flash came right after the evening news on Belgian state television Wednesday: the Flemish Parliament had voted for Flanders' secession from the Kingdom of Belgium. Over the next hour and a half, the trusted TV anchors fielded a spectacular spec..
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CNN
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Pakistan's parliament convened Monday and within minutes, it was apparent that the session in the coming days will devolve into a showdown between the newly-elected lawmakers and beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf. More than 300 lawmakers elected last..
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BBC News
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The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan.
Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was convicted last week of downloading and distributing an article insulting Islam. He has d..
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SF Gate
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Turkey moved closer to opening a new front in the Iraq war Monday, as the government asked parliament to approve a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels.
Parliament is widely expected to authorize the Cabinet's motion seeking authorization for..
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Yahoo News
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Iran's parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the U.S. Army as "terrorist organizations," a largely symbolic response to a U.S. Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The parliament said the Army an..
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BBC News
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A Sunni Arab-led bloc has ended its boycott of Iraq's parliament - the last of several Sunni groups to return after walking out three months ago.
The Iraqi National Dialogue Front said the government had agreed to address security fears and delay oil-l..
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USA Today
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Iraq's parliament reconvened Tuesday after a month-long summer break but it was not immediately clear whether it would be taking up key benchmark legislation demanded by Washington.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi appeals court upheld death sentences imposed again..
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BBC News
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Fatah gunmen have stormed the Hamas-controlled Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah in the West Bank.
The gunmen reportedly tried to seize the Palestinian Legislative Council's second deputy speaker, Hassan Khuraishah, but staff intervened.
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CNN
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Palestinian gunmen raided parliament buildings controlled by rivals in the West Bank on Saturday as factional fighting continued to spread.
The show of force by the armed wing of Fatah followed rival Hamas' takeover in Gaza.
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades..
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Seattle Times
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A majority of Iraq's parliament has expressed support for a proposed bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels.
Much like what Democrats have demanded in the U.S. Congress, the Ira..
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Al Jazeera
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This is why ... we feel obliged to suspend, effective now and until further notice, our participation in the work of this [National] Assembly, until proper security conditions are established." An MLC spokesman said that the statement had been read to a j..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A catering company that only recently took over the franchise at the Iraqi parliament was yesterday at the centre of the investigation into yesterday's bombing, as police detained three food workers for questioning and MPs said there had been prior compla..
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