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UK: Row erupts over Labour’s “insane Orwellian” plan for giving jail sentences for “misgendering” (videos)
Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary Anneliese Dodds said Labour would introduce tougher policies on anti-LGBT behaviour
Amsterdam to close cruise ship port
Amsterdam's city council has decided to close a major cruise ship terminal in its centre, officials confirmed to AFP, the latest measure to limit mass tourism in the Dutch capital.
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Turkey’s New Parliament: More Parties and More Women
Members of Turkey's parliament meet at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, TBMM, in Ankara, 2 January 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/STR
The 600-seat parliament will have 16 political parties thanks to the political alliance system that was introduced by the executive presidential system in 2018.
Turkey Urged Not to Close Pro-Kurdish Party Ahead of Elections
Members of pro-Kurdish party Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) shout slogans against the government in Istanbul, September 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA
Changing Britain: Can Sunak Arrest the Decline?
Rishi Sunak has just been chosen, 2.00 p.m. on 24th October 2022 by a fair margin, the next Prime Minister, the first ethnic Asian Briton to be so elected, and we wish him well. His appointment comes after a considerable period of turmoil which has raised many eyebrows around the world. Britain is supposed to be the home of parliamentary democracy.
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Johnson’s Tories crushed in twin UK parliamentary by-elections
Beleaguered British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered two crushing parliamentary by-election defeats on June 24, including in a southwest English seat previously held by his ruling Conservatives for over a century, prompting the party's chairman to quit.
UK’s Johnson faces test as MPs mull ’partygate’ probe
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a test of Conservative party loyalty Thursday when MPs vote on whether he should be investigated for misleading them over the "partygate" scandal.
Johnson repeatedly denied in the House of Commons that he or his Downing Street staff had breached Covid-19 lockdown laws, after allegations of widespread rule-breaking emerged late last year.
Norway’s leftwing opposition wins general election
Norway's left-wing opposition headed by Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Store won Sept. 13's general election after a campaign dominated by questions about the future of the key oil industry in Western Europe's largest producer.
The left-wing unseated a center-right coalition headed by Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg since 2013.
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EP Set to Guarantee Labor Mobility within EU, Ensure Fair Working Conditions for All
Labour mobility within the EU should be made easier for workers as well as for employers, with clearer rules to ensure fair, equality-based working conditions. This is the aim of a report drafted by European People's Party MEP Radan Kanev and his team before the start of the corona-crisis, a report that has acquired particular importance in light of the restrictions connected with the pandemic.
British filmmaker Ken Loach expelled from Labour Party
British filmmaker Ken Loach announced on Aug. 14 that he has been expelled from the Labour Party.
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"Labour HQ finally decided I am not fit to be a member of their party, as I will not disown those already expelled," the 85-year-old wrote on Twitter.