"PM dares Dion to face voters with coalition plan Dion quotes 2005 Harper letter decrying government delays of confidence votes Last Updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | 4:42 PM ET Comments474Recommend485 CBC News Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion...
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Edinburgh, Scotland may be world renown as one of Britain's most beautiful cities (if not the most beautiful), but a new survey has revealed that it is also the loneliest city in the UK."For centuries, princes and...
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After holding an all-party meet on national security in wake of the Mumbai terror attack in India, the Pakistani parliament will shortly meet to discuss the post-attack situation and thrash out a consensus response to the Indian allegations of Pakistan's involvement."The...
This is in effect a vote of non-confidence of the recently returned, minority, Conservative government to Parliament in Ottawa by three parties in opposition: the official opposition is the Liberal Party.However, this Petition is a grass-roots initiative which,...
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Japan continues to support the reconstruction of Iraq, but not the war it appears."Japan will withdraw its air force from Iraq by the middle of December, bringing to a close a five-year operation to provide supplies...
"By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to...
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Update 12:45pm EST Hundreds of protesters stormed Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International airport Tuesday night, and shots were fired between rival groups as riot police attempted to quell the unrest. All flights in...
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The Kuwaiti cabinet "handed in its resignation on Tuesday to prevent the questioning in parliament of Sheikh Nasser Mohammed, the prime minister, concerning corruption allegations" In addition, the unauthorised visit...
In view of the continued US drone attacks inside the country, Pakistan’s firebrand cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf or Justice Movement, has questioned the usefulness of the country’s parliament that came into existence...
Today's Parliament session was called off in Thailand following thousands of anti-government protestors led by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) began the besiege of the Parliament complex and other...
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" Lithuania's newly elected parliament has chosen as its new speaker a popular television talent show host once convicted of placing a prank call about a bomb in a hotel. The speaker is first in line to lead the...
After negotiations, Iranian President Ahmadinejad managed to gain a small majority to have his ally Sadeq Mahsouli appointed as Home Minister. "Out of 273 deputies who received ballots to take part in the vote...
" UPDATED: Iranian lawmakers are deciding whether to give a vote of confidence to Sadeq Mahsouli, the nominee for the post of interior minister. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at the formal Majlis...