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Polish lawmakers voted Friday to move forward with several bills aimed at reforming the Catholic country’s abortion laws, including two that would lift the near-total ban on abortion that currently exists in the EU country. CBC | World News
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Families of Israeli hostages angrily confront lawmakers in Jerusalem
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Read More »Russian lawmakers approve March election, paving way for a 5th Putin term
Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the country’s 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin a step closer to a fifth term in office. CBC | World News
Read More »Russian lawmakers unanimously vote to de-ratify the nuclear test treaty. Here’s what that means
Russia wants to revoke its ratification of a nuclear treaty that bans all nuclear explosions. It says it’s doing it to mirror the U.S. position. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump set to declare national emergency, lawmakers plan sweeping COVID-19 aid package
U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to invoke emergency powers as the country struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak, according to multiple U.S. media reports, as lawmakers negotiate over a comprehensive aid package. CBC | World News
Read More »Mike Pompeo pressed by U.S. lawmakers on coronavirus response, killing of Iran’s Soleimani
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the Trump administration’s response to the spreading coronavirus and faced contentious questions from Democrats about an airstrike that killed Iran’s most powerful general, Qassem Soleimani. CBC | World News
Read More »Several pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmakers detained
Pro-democracy lawmakers slammed the government clampdown as a calculated move to provoke more violence as an excuse to postpone or cancel Nov. 24 district elections — low-level polls viewed as a barometer of public sentiment in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. CBC | World News
Read More »GOP Lawmakers Are Reportedly Fighting For The Release Of Ukraine Whistleblower’s Identity
While President Donald Trump wages a defensive battle against a House Democrat-led impeachment investigation into his dealings with Ukraine, the president’s top allies in the halls of Congress are reportedly quietly making a push to reveal the anonymous whistleblower’s identity. According to The Hill, Republicans argue that knowing the identity of the individual who essentially sparked the impeachment inquiry launched ...
Read More »Ex-ambassador gives ‘disturbing’ testimony on Trump’s Ukraine dealings, lawmakers say
William Taylor, the ex-ambassador who has sharply questioned Donald Trump’s policy on Ukraine, provided lawmakers with a detailed and “disturbing” account of his recollection of events at the centre of the Democrats’ impeachment probe on Tuesday, as the president used rhetoric to decry the probe that uncomfortably evoked racial tensions from America’s past. CBC | World News
Read More »Chaos as Hong Kong lawmakers thwart leader’s annual address
In chaotic scenes, furious pro-democracy lawmakers twice forced Hong Kong’s leader to stop delivering a speech laying out her policy objectives and clamoured for her to resign after she walked out of the legislature on Wednesday and then delivered the annual address 75 minutes late via television. CBC | World News
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