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Indonesia parliament passes contentious amendments to military law

Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday passed contentious revisions to the country’s military law, which will allocate more civilian posts for military officers.

NBC News - 3d

Activists open abortion center in front of Polish parliament on Women's Day

Polish abortion rights activists have opened a center across from the parliament building in Warsaw where women can have abortions with pills, either alone or with other women

ABC News - Mar. 8

Belgian prosecutors make arrests in corruption probe linked to European Parliament

Belgian federal prosecutors say they've arrested several individuals as part of a corruption probe linked to the European Parliament amid reports in local media that Chinese company Huawei bribed ...

ABC News - Mar. 13

Spanish parliament vote on cutting food waste will end ban on wolf hunting

Amendment brought by coalition of parties says wolves add to food waste due to remains of livestock they kill. The Spanish parliament has voted through a measure that will in effect lift the ...

The Guardian - 3d

Spooky tales of ghosts and scandal come alive on an after-hours New Zealand parliament tour

Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises and late-night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at New Zealand's parliament in Wellington

ABC News - 3d

New Canadian Prime Minister Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

Two officials familiar with the matter say new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will run in an Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament for the first time

ABC News - 1d

Germany’s parliament approves Merz’s €1tn spending plan

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure

Financial Times - 5d

Confidence in German economy surges as parliament approves huge spending plan

Investors welcome prospect of hundreds of billions of euros to be spent on infrastructure and defense

MarketWatch - 5d

Indonesian Parliament Passes Bill That Critics Say Evokes Authoritarian Past

Legislators revised a law to allocate more civilian posts for military officers, a move that harked back to the era of the dictator Suharto.

The New York Times - 4d

German parliament passes historic debt reform, paving the way for higher defense spend

The reforms include changes to the debt brake rule and the creation of an infrastructure fund.

CNBC - 5d

Hungary's parliament passes law banning Pride events, in new assault on LGBTQ rights

Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees.

NBC News - 5d

Take your seats, please: Germany's parliament chamber is rearranged to reflect voters' verdict

German voters have had their say

ABC News - 4d

UK should ‘ideally’ not have ‘any’ troops in Ukraine, says Badenoch

Tory leader calls for Parliament to be given a vote on any military involvement

Financial Times - 2d

The Gulf state purging tens of thousands of its citizens

Kuwait has stripped nationality from 42,000 people after suspending the region’s only parliament last year

Financial Times - Mar. 9

Portugal’s Government Falls in No-Confidence Vote After Just a Year

The vote in Parliament will force new elections, the third in little more than three years.

The New York Times - Mar. 11

Nicola Sturgeon to step down from Holyrood

The ex-SNP leader says she will not seek re-election at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.

BBC News - Mar. 12

China steels itself for Trump turmoil with ‘DeepSeek congress’

Annual session of rubber stamp parliament highlights Beijing’s shifting priorities amid AI breakthroughs and US tariffs

Financial Times - Mar. 13

Germany’s Merz agrees spending deal with Greens

Agreement paves way for flagship defence and infrastructure package to be adopted by parliament next week

Financial Times - Mar. 14

Germany is back, says Merz after historic spending deal

Germany's conservative leader clinches an major financial agreement ahead of a crunch vote in parliament.

BBC News - Mar. 14

Statue of peace campaigner Brian Haw unveiled

Brian Haw camped out in Parliament Square for nearly 10 years to protest against UK foreign policy.

BBC News - 6d

'The discrimination I face on public transport is inhumane'

A report by parliament's cross-party-transport select committee says accessibility failings are "systematic" across all modes of transport.

BBC News - 3d

Ethiopia introduces new tax to fill gap after USAID funding pause

Ethiopia’s parliament is introducing a new tax for all workers as part of measures to fill the financial gap left by the USAID funding pause

ABC News - 3d

Merz’s €1tn spending plan wins final approval

Constitutional reform passes last legislative hurdle days before outgoing parliament’s term expires

Financial Times - 2d

Trump Looms Over Greenland’s Election, but Voters Have Other Concerns

President Trump keeps saying he wants to “get” Greenland. On Tuesday, Greenland votes for a new parliament that could shape its future relations with the United States.

The New York Times - Mar. 10

Portugal’s government looks set to lose a confidence vote, triggering an election

Portugal’s minority government is in danger of falling as parliament prepares to vote on a confidence motion, with an overwhelming majority of opposition lawmakers saying they will choose to oust ...

ABC News - Mar. 11

Greenland voting underway with Trump, independence in headlines

Greenland's national election will determine control of its parliament, with the ruling Inatsisartut party supporting independence and Trump suggesting the U.S. should take control of the island.

The Hill - Mar. 11

German MPs approve €500bn spending boost to counter ‘Putin’s war of aggression’

Historic levels of spending on military and infrastructure secured in Bundestag with last-minute backing of Greens. Europe live – latest updates Germany’s parliament has voted in favour of ...

The Guardian - 5d

ThyssenKrupp’s warship division expects its market size to triple as defense spending surges

That comes on the back of the German parliament voting in favor of a major fiscal package, which includes changes to debt policies for higher defense spending.

CNBC - 3d

Thailand's PM faces a no-confidence vote over alleged influence by her father

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing a no-confidence motion in parliament as the opposition alleges she is being unduly influenced by her father, a former prime minister, and is ...

ABC News - 1h

Thailand's PM faces a no-confidence vote over alleged influence by her father

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is facing a no-confidence motion in parliament as the opposition alleges she is being unduly influenced by her father, a former prime minister, and is ...

ABC News - 1h

What to know about the collapse of Portugal's government

Portugal has slid back into more political uncertainty after its third government fell in as many years when Prime Minister Luis Montenegro lost a confidence vote in Parliament

ABC News - Mar. 12

MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’

Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s. The historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly ...

The Guardian - Mar. 13

Greenland political parties join together against Trump comments about annexing the island

All five parties in Greenland’s parliament have issued a joint statement on Friday rejecting President Donald Trump’s latest effort to take control of the strategic Arctic island

ABC News - Mar. 14

Five key takeaways from the Guardian’s House of Lords series

Two peers are now under investigation after undercover reporting on members of parliament’s second chamber. “Indefensible” was how Keir Starmer described the House of Lords three years ago when he ...

The Guardian - Mar. 15

French politician jokes US should return Statue of Liberty for siding with ‘tyrants’

Raphaël Glucksmann quips that US should give back 19th-century gift from France over Trump’s approach to Ukraine. A French European parliament member has quipped that the US should return the ...

The Guardian - 6d

Germany OKs huge boost in defense spending as Europe gears up for new era

Germany’s parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in hopes of reviving economic growth and scaling up military spending for a ...

NBC News - 5d

Why Indonesia's new military law is alarming pro-democracy activists and rights groups

Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously voted to pass a controversial revision of its military law that will expand the armed forces’ role in civilian affairs despite growing opposition from ...

ABC News - 3d

Israeli strike kills top Hamas official

An Israeli strike killed a notable Hamas official, according to The Associated Press. Palestinian parliament and political bureau member Salah Bardawil was among a minimum of 26 killed in Israeli ...

The Hill - 22h

Revealed: House of Lords members have given £109m to political parties

Conservatives benefit most from donations provided either before or after peers secured their seats. Cash before honours: the Tory donors made peers who barely speak in Lords . Peers who sat ...

The Guardian - Mar. 9

Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race

Former central banker will be only second prime minister in Canadian history without a seat in parliament. ‘Boring guy’ whose economic acumen could help Canada tackle Trump Mark Carney, the ...

The Guardian - Mar. 9

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