Two of Brazil's labor movements held various actions on Thursday rejecting the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff, according to news magazine, Veja.
Republican leadership in the U. S. Senate said on Wednesday there would not be a confirmation hearing for the White House's pick for the Supreme Court vacancy.
The White House would seek to avoid a head-on clash with the Republican-controlled Senate by searching for a consensus Supreme Court nominee who can attract support from Senate Republicans, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
Upholding the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the US means the Philippines gets to strengthen its defenses but loses its sovereignty, according to the four dissenting justices of the Supreme Court.
More than 80 Canadian women have signed a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to work to ensure that the new process of selecting nominees to the Senate of Canada could produce a gender-equal Senate.
U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the United States unless they pass strict background checks.
U.S. House passes bill to lift oil export ban, veto looming
Fifteen U.S. senators have announced their support for the Iran nuclear deal during the past two weeks, showing "some important momentum," the White House said Monday.
Two members of the Philippine legislature, one from the House of Representatives and the other from the Senate, have questioned the legality of the Philippine military alliance with the United States and Japan.
U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday pressed Senate Republican chief Mitch McConnell to schedule a vote for the confirmation of U.S. President Barack Obama's pick for attorney general.
The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday failed to get an enough majority to override President Barack Obama's veto of Keystone XL pipeline.
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Thursday voted 18-4 to advance the new bipartisan Iran sanctions bill for a full-floor vote.
The U.S. Senate approved a 1.1-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending bill for fiscal year 2015 on Saturday and averted another government shutdown.
Republicans appear to be in the lead as the clock winds down to Tuesday's U.S. midterm Congressional elections, with polls and experts pointing to a strong possibility of a Republican Senate takeover.
The Italian cabinet approved a constitutional reform draft bill on Monday to turn the Senate into a smaller and non-elected assembly.
The U.S. Senate on Monday voted to advance the Ukraine aid bill which would grant loan assistance to the crisis-stricken eastern European country and ratify reform measures for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Tuesday accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of illegally searching computers used by her staffers investigating CIA interrogation methods, but the CIA director quickly denied the allegation.
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