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No single party or bloc is on course to win an outright majority in Spain’s snap general election, according to a tally with about 99 percent of votes counted. The conservative People’s Party (PP) was set to narrowly win the election on Sunday but without the majority needed to topple …

Ten days after Boris Johnson abruptly quit Britain’s Parliament, his former colleagues delivered a stinging rebuke to the former prime minister, overwhelmingly ratifying a report that concluded he deliberately misled lawmakers about lockdown-breaking parties held in Downing Street during the coronavirus pandemic. The vote revealed a Conservative Party still somewhat …

The former prime minister discussed the legacy she hoped to leave and ended the emotional speech in New Zealand’s Indigenous Maori language.

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Finland asked to join Western defence alliance in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Turkey was last holdout. Turkey’s parliament has approved a bill to allow Finland to join NATO, clearing the last major hurdle for Helsinki to join the Western defence alliance as war rages …

National People’s Congress also set to hand Xi Jinping a third term as president and implement biggest government shake-up in a decade. China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has kicked off its annual parliamentary session, announcing a modest target for economic growth at about 5 percent. The session, which began in …

Sarah Hepp Opinion by Sarah Hepp (amman, jordan) Friday, August 12, 2022 Inter Press Service AMMAN, Jordan, Aug 12 (IPS) – The storming of the Iraqi parliament by supporters of Al-Sadr was motivated by years of political impasse — threatening Iraq’s democracy and peace Iraq’s stricken democracy is being stress-tested once …

Mattarella branded the developments as “inevitable” following the political upheaval faced by the European Union’s third largest economy over the last 24 hours. In a short address from his residence at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Mattarella thanked Draghi and his ministers “for their efforts over the past 18 months.” …

The bill says any person who receives financial or any kind of support from abroad can be designated a ‘foreign agent’. The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given initial approval to a bill further tightening the country’s laws against “foreign agents”, at a time when President Vladimir Putin has …

The Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, denounced the “hubris” of Boris Johnson’s government, while the leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster, Ian Blackford, called for the prime minister’s resignation.

A power struggle between the prime Minister and president has contributed to the delayed election process in Somalia. Somali lawmakers have elected a new parliamentary speaker after a tense standoff between African Union peacekeepers and police, underscoring bitter divisions within the country’s security forces exacerbated by delayed elections. On Wednesday, …