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The government has contradicted itself by re-arresting Maina Njenga, the man known to be the leader of outlawed Mungiki sect. The man was arrested minutes after the high court quashed his five year jail term he was given two years ago. His freedom was..
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Thousands of Tamil protesters rallied in front of Parliament on Tuesday, calling on the Canadian government to pressure the Asian nation of Sri Lanka to stop its...
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Russian heroes Stalin and Lenin were featured in the first Soviet Russian bulbs. Their half face cut is used as glower, which shows the persona and charm of the...
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Kuwait’s emir says he has dissolved parliament and called for new elections.
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Sony has won part of the battle, but can IPL win the war?
The IPL 2 seems to be the perfect recipe for controversy. Running into one trouble after another, the...
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AP, United Nations
The number of women serving in parliaments around the world has risen 60 percent since 1995, but female legislators still account for just 18.3 percent of the total,...
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AP, London
British police say they are investigating a report that a man was engulfed in flames outside Parliament.
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When Cecil Miller was proposed as the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) chairman, I thought at last we can have a young person at the helm of an...
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Parliament is a venerable name of democratic institution, one could even suppose that its...
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AP, Bangkok
Several thousand protesters allied with exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra marched toward the prime minister’s office Tuesday, demanding a...
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AP, Brussels
A lone criminal robbed a bank Thursday at the European Union Parliament complex and made off with an undisclosed sum.
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AP, The Hague
The British government has banned Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders from visiting the country to show his anti-Islam film “Fitna” at the Houses of...
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AP, Rome
The 38-year-old woman who ignited a fierce right-to-die debate that convulsed Italy and dragged in the Vatican died Monday just as lawmakers in Parliament rushed to...
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AP, Ottawa
Canada’s opposition leader says he won’t topple the Conservative government if they agree to give periodic economic status reports in Parliament.
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AP, Reykjavik
Icelandic police have used tear gas to break up an angry protest outside the country’s Parliament. Two officers were hospitalized after being hit by rocks.
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For decades social and political activists have been vociferously demanding women representation in State and Central legislature. If one looks at the number of women...
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AP, Sofia
An anti-government demonstration in Sofia turned violent Wednesday, with protesters clashing with police and hurling stones and bottles at the Parliament building.
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AP, Seoul
North Korea said Wednesday it would finally elect new members to its rubber stamp legislature _ a move delayed for several months amid speculation about leader Kim Jong...
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North Korea announced Wednesday it will elect new members of its rubber stamp legislature in March, following months of delay amid speculation about the health of...
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AP, Prague
A weak government. A Euro-skeptic president. Parliament in stalemate over an EU reform treaty. The Czech Republic does not look ideally suited to assume leadership of...
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Thailand’s year of almost relentless protests ended on New Year’s Eve, bringing hopes of calmer political waters in 2009 as seemingly weakened demonstrators...
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A new movie backed by the Chinese government about Japanese atrocities during the World War II-era, “Nanking Massacre,” earned a strong $10 million in its...
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AP, Belgrade
A war crimes court on Thursday found four Serbian former policemen guilty of the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison.
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AP, Belgrade
A war crimes court on Thursday found four former Serbian policemen guilty of the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison.
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Israel has...
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AP, Lima
DNA tests have identified 23 victims from a mass grave in Peru’s southern highlands, a quarter century after they were killed by Peru’s military, forensic...
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AP, Washington
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Bosnian immigrant of his conviction for lying about his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre so he could get into...
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AP, Moscow
Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected appeals to re-open the investigation into the World War II era massacre of Polish military officers and intellectuals by...
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AP, Madrid
A Spanish judge opened an investigation Tuesday into 14 ex-Salvadoran military officials and will consider indicting them over the killing of six Jesuits priests and...
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AP, Berlin
German police say they have searched the residence of an 89-year-old man suspected of taking part in the 1945 massacre of more than 60 Jews in Austria by the...
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AP, Mexico City
Prosecutors have charged a municipal police commander and an alleged drug cartel member with homicide in the September massacre of 24 men outside Mexico City.
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Rights groups asked a Spanish court on Thursday to indict a former president of El Salvador and 14 ex-officials over the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others...
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A Puerto Rican judge on Wednesday found a contractor and two of his workers not guilty of animal cruelty in a highly publicized massacre of dogs and cats seized from a...
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A Puerto Rican judge says a contractor and two of his workers are not guilty of animal cruelty in a highly publicized massacre of dogs and cats seized from a housing...
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AP, Maille
French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage Monday to victims of a 1944 Nazi massacre that was long forgotten by the history books, overshadowed by another event the...
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AP, Bayamon
Three men accused in the killing of pets seized from a public housing project waived their right to a jury as their trial began Monday, saying heavy publicity would...
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In this June 10, 2008 file photo, relatives look at the bones of Gaspar Terraza Matom, about 10-years-old, who was killed in a massacre by the Guatemalan Army in 1981, during a mass burial in the Cocop community in the village of Nebaj, Guatemala.
