An independent lawmaker proposed a bill Monday to ban the presidential office from destroying its documents after impeachments, as prosecutors seek to investigate the alleged corruption scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye.
Thousands of settlers and their supporters were gathering over the weekend in Amona, a hilltop illegal Jewish outpost in the West Bank, preparing to barricade themselves and confront the Israeli security forces who are expected to evict them next week.
All members of South Korea's biggest opposition party will resign their parliamentary seats unless the bill to impeach President Park Geun-hye is passed through the National Assembly, the party's whip said Thursday.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday a controversial bill which could overturn men's convictions for child-sex assault if they married their victim would be withdrawn after a public backlash.
South Korea's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow the opposition parties to pick candidates for an independent counsel to investigate the influence-peddling scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye and her confidante Choi Soon-sil.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday hinted at the reintroduction of a construction union watchdog bill in Parliament, after he saw footage of a trade union official abusing a worksite supervisor.
U.S. Congress voted on Wednesday to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would allow the families of the Sept. 11 terror attacks' victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group in Bolivia presented a draft bill Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage.
Indian parliament Wednesday passed the landmark Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, the country' s biggest tax reform since its independence from Britain in 1947.
Myanmar parliament's second session including the two Houses' will reconvene on July 25 , nearly a month after its first session adjourned on June 10, according to an announcement of the parliament published Monday.
The Albanian Ministry of Finance has revealed a new bill containing a package of measures designed to relieve burdens of businesses, Albanian Top Channel reported on Monday.
India’s minister for women and children unveiled a draft of the country’s first-ever comprehensive anti-human trafficking law, which would treat survivors as victims in need of assistance and protection rather than as criminals.
U.S. lawmakers are looking to use a defense policy bill to increase restrictions on military aid for Pakistan, expressing frustration with what they see as Islamabad´s failure to crack down on Afghanistan´s militant Haqqani network.
Nobody should be surprised when the present House of Representatives, dominated by penurious reactionaries, produces a stingy response to a danger that calls for compassionate largess. But for sheer fecklessness it’s hard to top the House’s response this week to the Zika virus.
Indian parliament (the country's lawmaking body) Monday passed the Anti-Hijacking Bill-2016 that provides death penalty to the hijackers even if ground handling staff and airport personnel are killed during such hijacking bids, officials said.
A draft law to regulate overseas nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), submitted for its third reading on Monday, eases restriction over their operation and membership.
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