Sunday, 07 February 2021_A top GOP lawmaker is pressing US President Joe Biden to let the US embassy remain in Jerusalem al-Quds after it was moved there from Israeli capital Tel Aviv.
TEHRAN, Dec 8_A US lawmaker says the Saudi kingdom must engage in “no interference” in the American investigation into the Saudi aviation officer, who killed three people and wounded more Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.
TEHRAN, May 14 - Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed five jailed Catalan separatist leaders to be sworn in as lawmakers next week, but said it would not free them or grant them immunity as their trial for their role in an independence bid proceeds.
TEHRAN, Apr 04 - A populist lawmaker has been elected as speaker of Estonia's parliament as the Baltic country's legislature convened for the first time since March 3 general elections.
TEHRAN, Mar 17 -A far-right Australian lawmaker who blamed the slaughter at two Christchurch mosques on immigration policies has literally pulled his punches against a teenager who egged him on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Mar 16 -A senior lawmaker from Britain’s governing Conservatives quit his local party on Saturday due to disagreements over Brexit, as the decision to leave the European Union continues to reshape loyalties in the country’s politics.
TEHRAN, Mar 13 - Former British foreign minister and senior Conservative Party lawmaker Boris Johnson has drawn massive criticism for his comments about an ongoing public inquiry into the past cases of child abuse.
TEHRAN, Feb 28 - Israeli authorities have released Khalida Jarrar, a prominent Palestinian legislator and a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was held without trial for 20 months under the practice of administrative detention.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - Another lawmaker has resigned from the UK’s Labour Party in what is shaping up to become an unprecedented rebellion against opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.
TEHRAN, Feb 11 -Members of budget committees in the US Congress plan to meet in an attempt to reach a deal over funding border security to prevent another partial government shutdown, but an air of pessimism remains after talks broke down over the weekend.
TEHRAN, December 15 -A US state lawmaker from Washington is accused of violating election campaign finance laws to donate to an anti-Muslim group and promote his radio show on a conspiracy website associated with a far-right secessionist movement.
TEHRAN, December 03 - Lawmakers representing Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority are refusing to leave the parliament building to protest a 100 percent tax on all goods imported from Serbia.
TEHRAN, December 03 - Hong Kong authorities have barred a pro-democracy lawmaker from running in a local election for "implicitly" supporting Hong Kong's independence from China, in what critics said was another instance of civil rights being eroded in the China-ruled city.
TEHRAN, October 09 - The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday called for an independent probe into the death of a Venezuelan opposition lawmaker whom authorities say killed himself jumping off an intelligence agency building but whose party say was murdered.
TEHRAN, September 08 -Kim Jong Un has confirmed his readiness to visit Russia, the RIA news agency quoted speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, Valentina Matvienko, as saying after she met the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Saturday.
TEHRAN, September 01 -Prominent Ugandan opposition lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi, who was charged with treason and temporarily detained, has left for the United States to seek medical treatment, his lawyer said.
TEHRAN, July 15 -When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returns to parliament after becoming only the second elected leader in the world to have a baby in office, her daughter will be allowed to cuddle with her during debates and swim in the pool.
TEHRAN, May 28 -A veteran Israeli lawmaker has announced his support for the annexation of the settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want as part of their future independent state.