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UK political leaders pay tribute to lawmaker stabbed to death in terrorist
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, paid tribute on Saturday to Conservative lawmaker David Amess, who was stabbed to death in an attack that is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.
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UK Police describes murder of lawmaker Amess as terrorist attack, says pos
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], October 16 (ANI): The murder of British lawmaker David Amess was a terrorist attack, the UK Police said.
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UN 'extremely' saddened by murder of UK Conservative politician Amess
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], October 15 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Nations is saddened by the killing of UK Conservative lawmaker David Amess who died earlier on Friday after being stabbed at his regular constituency surgery in Essex, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
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Pakistan: Parliamentary panel rejects anti-forced conversion bill
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 14 (ANI): After opposition from Pakistan's Ministry of Religious Affairs, a parliamentary committee on Wednesday rejected the anti-forced conversion bill amid protest from the lawmakers belonging to minority communities in the country.
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Dharamshala: Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile approves three women as cabinet m
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 13 (ANI): Tibetan lawmakers on Tuesday approved the appointment of three Kalons (Ministers) out of seven Kalons in the first session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. All three approved cabinet ministers are women.
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Russian lawmaker says borders not subject to revision after Kishida's rema
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The Russian territory is indivisible, and the borders are not to be revised, Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the Russian upper chamber's foreign affairs committee, told Sputnik on Tuesday, commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio
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Ukrainian lawmakers dismiss parliament speaker
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kiev [Ukraine], October 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday voted to dismiss parliament speaker Dmytro Razumkov, said the parliament press service.
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Chief Minister of Pak's Balochistan refuses to resign despite demands by s
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], October 6 (ANI): Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani on Tuesday said that he would not resign despite demands by some BAP lawmakers to leave office by 5pm on Wednesday.
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Facebook products 'harm' children, stoke division, weaken democracy: Whist
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US] October 6 (ANI): Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen on Tuesday (local time) argued at a Senate hearing that Congress needs to require more transparency from the social networking giant.
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Fumio Kishida approved as Japan's next Prime Minister
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 4 (ANI): Japanese lawmakers on Monday voted to approve Fumio Kishida, as the new prime minister, NHK World reported.
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Ex-Afghan lawmaker detained by Taliban for various crimes: Report
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The Taliban have detained ex-member of the lower house of the Afghan parliament, Allah Gul Mujahid, accused of committing multiple crimes including land seizure, murders, and kidnapping, a source told Sputnik on Thursday.
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US in talks to use Russian bases for Afghan operations, Pentagon informs l
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 30 (ANI/Sputnik): US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley told lawmakers in a classified briefing that the Biden administration is in talks about using Russian bases in Central Asia to conduct counterterrorism missions again
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