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    Johnson plans to restrict parliament time before Brexit: BBC

    28 Aug 2019

    Britain’s government will seek to extend the period during which parliament does not normally sit, shutting it for around a month until Oct.14, as part of a drive to prevent politicians

    Ukraine’s new parliament set for marathon first session

    29 Aug 2019

    Ukraine’s new parliament will meet for the first time on Thursday, dominated by the party of ex-comedian President Volodymyr Zelensky who has an unprecedented

    London court rejects challenge to PM Johnson’s suspension of parliament

    06 Sep 2019

    London’s High Court on Friday rejected a legal challenge against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament before Brexit, but said it could be taken to the Supreme Court for an appeal, the BBC said.

    UK Supreme Court hears cases that PM Johnson’s parliament suspension was illegal

    17 Sep 2019

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government will seek to persuade Britain’s top court this week that his decision to suspend parliament until shortly before the date for Brexit was not illegal as Scottish judges concluded last week.

    Armenia’s parliament votes to lift martial law

    24 Mar 2021

    Armenia brought in martial law in September when war broke out between ethnic Armenians in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azeri forces. The conflict that erupted on Sept.27 was brought to a halt on Nov.10 by a Russian-brokered peace deal.

    China approves sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system

    30 Mar 2021

    The measures are part of Beijing’s efforts to consolidate its increasingly authoritarian grip over the global financial hub following the imposition of a national security law in June, which critics see as a tool to crush dissent.

    Thai Constitutional changes heat up country’s parliament

    17 Nov 2020

    Hundreds of Thai royalists in yellow shirts demonstrated outside parliament, calling on lawmakers to reject changes to the constitution drawn up by the country’s former military junta in response to mounting anti-government protests.

    Johnson’s parliamentary grilling stirs both pleasure and pain

    19 Sep 2020

    In these desperate times, in which the populist virus is wreaking havoc with the world, we must take little pleasures wherever we can find them. Like the little pleasure I take seeing Boris Johnson stumble, splutter and “er, ah, um” his way through his encounter with the Liaison Committee. It is a pleasure born of the fact that the prime ministerial grilling by select committee chairmen and women was my idea, many moons ago.

    Parliament opens in India, global virus hot spot

    14 Sep 2020

    India reopened its Parliament after more than five months on Monday even as the country continues to report the most daily new infections of the coronavirus in the world and daily virus deaths remain above 1,000.

    UK minister says ‘there is a way through’ on Brexit bill in parliament

    16 Sep 2020

    Britain’s justice secretary said on Wednesday he saw a way through parliament for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Internal Market Bill. “I believe there is a way through,” Robert Buckland told the BBC

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