TEHRAN, Jun 18 - Lebanon Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Tuesday called for parliament to quickly approve the country's 2019 budget and urged his coalition government to avoid internal disputes.
TEHRAN, Jun 11 - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday asked parliament to appoint a former Ukrainian envoy to NATO, Vadym Prystaiko, as new foreign minister and to sack General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 -The German lawmakers on Friday approved a package of laws reforming rules on asylum and migration. The laws included a government-proposed bill intended to make it harder for failed asylum-seekers to avoid deportation or hide their true identity.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - The Spanish parliament 's speaker said on Wednesday the suspension of four Catalan lawmakers currently facing trial over their involvement in a 2017 regional independence bid would not affect the total number of seats in the house.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Thailand's Parliament convened Wednesday for a vote that is expected to keep Prayuth Chan-ocha as prime minister five years after he seized power in a military coup.
TEHRAN, Jun 3 - The Iranian Parliament has concluded a report on the US government’s violation of human rights, both inside and outside the United States, a lawmaker said.
TEHRAN, May 31 -A group of opposition senators ransacked their meeting room in Parliament on Thursday, dragging out broken furniture and computers to block the ratification of interim Prime Minister Jean-Michel Lapin.
TEHRAN, May 30 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked parliament to sack the foreign and defense ministers and the head of the security service SBU, the presidential press service said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 22 - South African lawmakers were set to re-elect Cyril Ramaphosa as the nation's president on Wednesday, two weeks after the ANC returned to power in legislative elections.
TEHRAN, May 21- A fragmented Spanish Parliament convened Tuesday after last month's inconclusive general election, including for the first time Catalan politicians released from pre-trial detention for the occasion, as well as two dozen lawmakers from an upstart far-right party.
TEHRAN, May 21- Ukraine may hold a snap parliament ary election on July 21, an adviser to new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday after Zelenskiy held consultations with lawmakers.
TEHRAN, May 14 - The Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has made its first report on the US government’s violation of human rights, the chairman of the commission said.
TEHRAN, May 12 - A senior member of the Iranian Parliament says the United States does not seek a military confrontation with Iran and is only waging a "psychological war" against the Islamic Republic.
EHRAN, May 11 - Anger over Hong Kong's controversial plans to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland boils over in the city's legislature as rival lawmakers scuffle with each other in chaotic scenes.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a language law that seeks to increase the use of Ukrainian in a country where Russian is also widely used.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - The Iraqi parliament ’s Foreign Relations Committee plans to pressure the US officials to extend a sanctions waiver for Baghdad to continue importing energy from neighboring Iran, Hassan al-Fadam, a member of the committee announced.
TEHRAN, Apr 23 - British Prime Minister Theresa May faced renewed pressure Tuesday from her restive Conservative Party to resign as lawmakers returned to Parliament — and to Brexit wrangling — after an 11-day Easter break.
TEHRAN, Apr 23 - The Iranian parliament has overwhelmingly passed a law, which designates American forces in West Asia - known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) - a terrorist organization in a counter-measure against the US blacklisting of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
TEHRAN, Apr 17 - The Iranian Parliament (Majlis) has overwhelmingly approved the general outlines of a motion devised by the legislature to counter the United States’ blacklisting of the Islamic Republic’s elite defense forces.