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Facebook’s Impress Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling 0

Facebook’s Impress Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, is set to meet with leaders of the European Parliament to answer questions about how the data of millions of the social network’s users ended up in the hands of a political consultancy. The meeting on Tuesday comes three days before tough new European Union rules on data protection take…

Pashinyan supporters optimistic ahead of Armenia parliament vote 0

Pashinyan supporters optimistic ahead of Armenia parliament vote

Yerevan, Armenia – This weekend, traffic flowed freely through Yerevan’s broad avenues. Buskers played Armenian folk songs to tourists. The calm was unsettling. Because of late, Nikol Pashinyan’s so-called Velvet Revolution has exercised true people power – the ability to conjure up a storm of support on request. Pashinyan, whose protest movement began with a…

Pakistan international minister disqualified from parliament 0

Pakistan international minister disqualified from parliament

A Pakistani court has disqualified Foreign Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif from holding public office on charges that he made omissions on a parliamentary wealth declaration, the latest blow to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. A three-member bench of the Islamabad High Court issued the verdict in the Pakistani capital on Thursday. Asif later told…

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Pakistani court bans ex-PM Nawaz Sharif from parliament for lifestyles

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Supreme Court has disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, dismissed from his post over corruption allegations last year, from holding public office for life. A five-member bench of the country’s apex court unanimously ruled on Friday that anyone disqualified under a constitutional clause requiring legislators to be « honest and trustworthy » would…

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Lethal car-bomb blast advance Somalia’s parliament

A car bomb detonated near Somalia’s parliament in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least two people and wounding several others, a senior police officer said. The bomb exploded on Sunday at a security checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped a suspicious vehicle, Captain Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press. Those dead included two soldiers as…

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A Palestinian seat in Lebanon’s parliament?

Beirut, Lebanon – At first glance, she could be easily mistaken for any other conventional politician running for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Lebanon. In the poster that launched her campaign, Manal Kortam followed the playbook of political imagery to a T; dressed in a sharp dark blazer and flashing a wide, confident smile, Kortam…

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Maldives navy seals off parliament, arrests MPs

Security forces in the Maldives  have sealed off the country’s parliament and arrested two opposition legislators amid a deepening crisis over President Abdulla Yameen’s refusal to free jailed politicians. Soldiers in riot gear surrounded the parliament building in Male on Sunday soon after the opposition petitioned the parliament to remove the island nation’s attorney general and…