KAMPALA: Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi has left Uganda for medical treatment in the United States following accusations he was tortured by security forces, his lawyer told AFP on Saturday. The 36-year-old reggae…
A far-right Hindutva leader from Bengal and his host, a conservative UK MP, came under heavy criticism from the British media for his remarks against Muslims at the UK parliament building last…
British Conservative lawmaker Sajid Javid was removed from his position as business secretary by new Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday, taking up a less prominent role leading the department responsible for…
Nazi regalia has been found at the home of the man suspected of killing MP Jo Cox, it was reported on Friday. Tommy Mair is being questioned by police after he was…
Britain’s Labour Party on Wednesday suspended one of its own parliamentarians pending an investigation into allegations she shared anti-Semitic posts on social media. Bradford West MP Naz Shah told the House of…
The federal government diverted Rs10.4 billion – almost 55% – of the Rs19 billion disbursements to the most populous province of the country, Punjab with Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa getting even less funds…
Parliamentarians from India’s right-wing government on Friday blocked a private member’s bill to decriminalise gay sex, in a setback for sexual freedom in the world’s biggest democracy. Shashi Tharoor, a lawmaker from…
Interior Ministry on Monday compiled a revised list of 28 banned outfits’ operatives after attack on a Military Police (MP) vehicle claimed the lives of two personnel. In latest developments, head money…
A former minister in Viktor Yanukovich’s parliament was thrown in a rubbish bin and pelted with trash by a mob after Ukraine ratifies economic ties with the European Union. Vitaly Zhuravsky, once…
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker, who was wearing a suicide…
According to Dr Rehman Malik at least 150 parliamentarians have received death threats through text messages, asking them to resign or face death. Interestingly, Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency…
Amidst Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s threats of tendering resignations en-masse from the national and provincial assemblies to pave way for fresh election, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said 150 parliamentarians had recently…
An Afghan female politician called off an 18-day hunger strike on Wednesday and began eating at the request of a senior cleric, ending a gruelling protest over her expulsion from parliament. Semin…
Kashmir’s legislature will debate whether to ask New Delhi for clemency for a Kashmiri man who was sentenced to death for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, a…
Men gathered Monday at Baghdad’s biggest Sunni mosque for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a suicide attack that has been blamed on Al-Qaeda.…
India’s government said Saturday the nation’s democracy was at a “crossroads” as lawmakers debated ways to end a high-stakes standoff with a hugely popular anti-graft hunger striker. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, a…
Dutch far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders Tuesday called Norwegian suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s twin attacks a “slap in the face of the global anti-Islam movement.” The leader of the controversial Party for Freedom…
