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  • According to the parliament's website, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told lawmakers the Iraqi government still had the right to submit its own demands for compensation to the American government.

    Iraqi lawmakers approve $400M payment to Americans 2011

  • Also on Saturday, parliament's lower house approved a special 4 trillion yen $50 billion budget to help finance post-tsunami rebuilding efforts, in what officials say will likely be the first installment of reconstruction funding.

    Criticism up on Japan PM's handling of nuke crisis 2011

  • The changes will then need parliament's approval to become law.

    India Set to Raise Bar on Foreign Investment in FM Radio R. Jai Krishna 2011

  • Declining to appear before parliament's culture select committee when it was examining phone-hacking allegations at the NoW, Brooks, the paper's editor between 2000 and 2003, was almost contemptuous of suggestions that the practice was widespread.

    Rebekah Brooks in firing line as phone-hacking scandal refuses to go away 2011

  • People also carried signs with images of the former speaker of parliament's upper house, Safwat Al Sharif, behind bars, and chanted that Mubarak-appointed local governors and mayors should be dismissed from power.

    Egypt Rallies Swell Against Military Matt Bradley 2011

  • State TV showed some 50 conservative MPs marching through parliament's main hall on Tuesday, chanting "Death to Mousavi, death to Karroubi."

    Iran Cracks Down on Spiraling Protests 2011

  • The Afghan parliament's rejection of most of President Hamid Karzai's proposed cabinet this weekend dealt him a major setback and has created more political turmoil that could last months.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: January 4, 2010 2010

  • Washington Post: Afghanistan parliament's rejection of Karzai cabinet picks signals power shift

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: January 4, 2010 2010

  • State TV showed some 50 conservative MPs marching through parliament's main hall on Tuesday, chanting "Death to Mousavi, death to Karroubi."

    Iran Cracks Down on Spiraling Protests 2011

  • Earlier this week, prosecutors banned travel and froze the personal finances of Mr. El Sherif; Fathi Sorour, the speaker of parliament's lower house; and Zakariya Azmi, Mr. Mubarak's former chief of staff.

    Egypt Rallies Swell Against Military Matt Bradley 2011

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