European leaders and British parliament vote for post-Brexit trade deal
The UK and European Union signed a mammoth trade pact this Wednesday to put their seal on a long drawn-out Brexit divorce before parting ways definitively at the dawn of 2021. https://s.rfi.fr/media/display/3b0c9df6-4abf-11eb-8038-005056a964fe/w:1024/p:16×9/AP20365564659941.jpg More...
Israel to hold fourth election in 2 years as parliament fails to meet budget deadline
Israel is set to hold a snap election after the Knesset failed to pass a spending package by a deadline set earlier this month, sending the country into its fourth vote in just two years as a fragile unity government More...
Swedish parliament takes a ‘decisive step’ toward defense alliance with Finland and NATO membership
A majority of the Swedish parliament favors having the option to join NATO at some point in the future, after the populist Sweden Democrats reversed their earlier opposition to joining the alliance. The party did More...
Congo-Kinshasa: Pro-Kabila, Pro-Tshisekedi Camps in Pitched Battle at Parliament
[Nation] Two days after Félix Tshisekedi’s speech announcing the end of the coalition, the standoff continues in the National Assembly between, on the one hand, the office of the chamber of parliament and More...
Portuguese restaurant owners hold HUNGER STRIKE in front of parliament, as Covid lockdown cripples hospitality sector
Restaurant, bar, and nightclub owners staged a protest against the Portuguese government and its crushing Covid restrictions outside the national parliament on Tuesday – the fifth day of their ongoing hunger strike. The More...
F-16 pilots get up to 79 life sentences each for bombing police & parliament building in Ankara during 2016 coup attempt
A Turkish court has handed life sentences to former military commanders and fighter jet pilots who bombed police compounds and the parliament building in Ankara during a failed coup. The court in Ankara delivered More...
South Africa: Parliament Recommends Promoting Tourism At Local Government Level
[Govt of SA] The Portfolio Committee on Tourism today received a briefing from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) on the State of Tourism at Local Government Level. AllAfrica More...
Rwanda: Parliament Approves Deal for Rwandair to Fly to Five New Routes
[East African] Rwanda’s parliament on Wednesday approved the ratification of Bilateral Air Service Agreements (BASAs) with five countries allowing national carrier RwandAir to operate in five additional routes. AllAfrica More...
NGO’s demand France to give parliament control over arms sales
Fourteen of the world’s top human rights- and humanitarian organisations call the French government to “end France’s opacity on arms sales” and to “establish real parliamentary control.” The call comes More...
