Afghan parliament passes amnesty law
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Afghanistan's lower house of parliament on Saturday voted into law a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter century of fighting, but also recognizing the rights of victims to seek justice.
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Armenian MPs adopt a bill paving the way for granting citizenship to many in the Armenian diaspora.
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BELGRADE, Dec. 6 (IPS) - The Bulgarian parliament finally adopted a much  delayed law Wednesday to open most of the country's archives  of former communist secret services.
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The three laws are the budget, a law outlining the scope of provincial powers and an amnesty covering thousands of detainees.
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It is reported to be the biggest single amnesty for three years. The official Sana news agency said it was part of an &quot;open and tolerant policy&quot;.
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Afghanistan's parliament has granted  immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of  conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human  rights groups for war crimes trials.
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Britain's parliament passed legislation Wednesday allowing the Northern Ireland Assembly to be dissolved in January and an election held weeks later in hopes of reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration.
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President Hamid Karzai has won a majority of votes in Afghanistan&#39;s election, clinching a five-year term and becoming the country&#39;s first democratically elected leader
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About 30,000 Afghans rallied at what was  once a Taliban execution center in Kabul on Friday to press  President Hamid Karzai to approve a blanket amnesty for 25  years of war crimes.
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Ukraine's parliament adopted a law reocgnising a 1932-1933 famine that killed up to 10 million people as a Soviet &quot;genocide&quot; against the Ukrainian people.
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Legislators today approved laws barring the Cambodian government from pardoning Khmer Rouge suspects, one day after ratifying a landmark UN-backed plan to set up a tribunal to prosecute surviving leaders of the murderous 1970s regime.
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TEHRAN  - Iran&#39;s parliament passed a bill backing the resumption of uranium enrichment, as the government left the door open for further negotiations with Europe over the controversial practice.
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The Afghan parliament passed a revised  bill on Saturday that called for amnesty for groups involved in  war crimes but also recognized the victims' right to seek  justice, lawmakers said.
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The upper house of parliament passed a resolution Tuesday that calls for an amnesty for Afghans &#151; including some lawmakers and members of the government &#151; who are suspected of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, an official said. President Hamid Karzai will now decide whether it should become law, said Kadamali Nekpai, chief of the upper house's press department.
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About 200 people gathered to remember one of the worst massacres of Afghanistan's 1992-1996 civil war, calling for justice days after parliament voted for an amnesty for war crimes.
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Venezuela's parliament is to finalise a law granting President Chavez sweeping powers to rule by decree.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony in the capital Kabul, witnesses said.