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Parliament has been hit by a cyber attack, officials at Westminster say.
After the ruling GERB party lost Bulgaria's presidential vote on Sunday and the prime minister resigned on Monday, the Balkan country is going to face unpredictable early parliamentary elections, analysts said.
An Afghan election monitoring group on Sunday expressed concern over a deadlock in electoral reform process, saying the delay in reform may deter the conduct of the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), Monday urged NLD MPs to cooperate faithfully in parliamentary affairs.
China's top legislator Zhang Dejiang on Monday urged the world's five leading emerging economies to boost cooperation and play a constructive role in addressing global issues and promoting world peace and development.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that her office was willing to cooperate with parliamentary investigators over the international spying scandal, or the so-called BND-NSA affair, at the same time defending Germany's intelligence cooperation with other countries in the fight against terrorism.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday ruled an electoral law article which regulates the division of the electoral districts of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections as unconstitutional, a ruling that may delay the vote set for March 21, state-run Nile TV reported.
Egyptian Local Development Minister Adel Labib said on Monday that the attacks in North Sinai will not delay the timing of parliamentary elections, the state-owned daily Ahramonline reported.
The Democratic Party of Struggle ( PDI-P), Indonesia's largest opposition party led by former president Megawati, took an early lead in the parliamentary election on Wednesday, unofficial results showed.
Egypt will hold the presidential elections before the parliamentary polls, interim President Adli Mansour said in a televised speech on Sunday.