Iraq Parliament Votes to Oust Speaker
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BAGHDAD June 11--- Iraq's parliament voted today to oust its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani, a day after one of his bodyguards allegedly roughed up another lawmaker, legislators said.
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The contest for Iraq's next prime minister narrowed Monday after the French-educated finance minister removed himself from consideration within the ranks of the Shiite alliance that won the most votes in the national elections, a spokesman said.
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Iraq's parliament reopened Tuesday after a summer recess and voted to extend a state of emergency for a month because of unrelenting sectarian violence, while the president predicted bloodshed will be quelled by the end of next year.
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Scores of Iraqi lawmakers stormed out of parliament on Tuesday, blocking a vote on the 2008 budget and other bills including an amnesty law that could free thousands of prisoners.
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Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz is elected parliamentary speaker after Josef Oleksy's resignation.
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Lawmakers suspended George Galloway from parliament on Monday as the MP and prominent opponent of the Iraq war railed against accusations of involvement in the UN oil-for-food scandal.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 -- The speaker of the Iraqi parliament said Tuesday that a controversial plan to partition the country into three autonomous regions is politically dead.
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The Arab League's representative to Iraq has submitted his resignation, citing insufficient funding and slow progress on the pan-Arab organization's efforts to foster reconciliation among Iraqis, Arab diplomats said Saturday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somalia's parliament passed a motion of no-confidence against the new prime minister and his Cabinet yesterday, an official said, effectively sacking a government that had been expected to restore order to the country after 13 years of anarchy and war. The deputy speaker of the 275-member transitional parliament, Dalhar Omar, said 153 members voted against Prime Minister ...
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Nigeria's parliamentary speaker resigns after weeks of stalemate over a report into alleged graft.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 13 -- The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday passed three key measures that for months had been the subject of bickering that threatened to undermine the country's political process.
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A bomb intended to kill the contentious speaker of the Iraqi Parliament exploded inside one of his armored cars.
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc will end its boycott of the Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on Thursday, in a positive sign for the country's faltering attempts at national reconciliation.
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WARSAW - A pro-business opposition party that wants Poland's troops out of Iraq ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government in parliamentary elections yesterday, as Poles opted for leadership offering a more cooperative approach to the European Union.
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The head of the main Sunni bloc in parliament called Tuesday for the Sunni speaker of parliament to step down to help the stability of the unity government after Shiite and Kurdish parties insisted on his removal.
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A pro-business opposition party that wants Poland's troops out of Iraq ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government in parliamentary elections Sunday, as Poles opted for leadership offering a more cooperative approach to the European Union.
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The British Parliament's lower house on Monday suspended a lawmaker accused of concealing his financial dealings with Saddam Hussein's government.