Tag: MPs
Kenyan MPs accuse British soldiers from Batuk of sexual abuse in...
Wycliffe Muia,NairobiandAnita Nkonge,BBC Africa, NairobiAFP via Getty ImagesThe report documented testimony from victims, detailing how British soldiers had allegedly preyed on local women,...
Latvian MPs vote to pull out of treaty on protecting women...
Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic abuse, after a long and...
Indonesian MPs get extra allowance weeks after angry protests over perks
Weeks after widespread protests swept Indonesia over the excessive pays of lawmakers, a new allowance raise has unleashed fresh public anger.Lawmakers will now...
Timor-Leste scraps plan to buy MPs free cars after protests
Timor-Leste has scrapped a plan to give its lawmakers free cars after thousands of people took to the streets to protest against it.On...
France in fresh political crisis after MPs oust prime minister
France has been plunged into a new political crisis with the defeat of Prime Minister François Bayrou at a confidence vote in the...
220 MPs call for Keir Starmer to recognise Palestinian state
Sam FrancisPolitical reporterReutersMore than a third of MPs have signed a letter to Sir Keir Starmer calling for the UK to recognise a...
Three Maori MPs suspended over ‘intimidating’ haka
New Zealand's parliament has voted to suspend three Māori MPs for their protest haka during a sitting last year.Opposition MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who...
French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones in blow to Macron
France's National Assembly has voted to abolish low-emission zones, a key measure introduced during President Emmanuel Macron's first term to reduce city pollution.So-called...
French MPs back law to allow assisted dying
French MPs have voted to allow some people in the last stages of a terminal illness the right to assisted dying.The National Assembly...
