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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defense minister resigned Wednesday after allegations emerged about inappropriate sexual behavior — the latest twist in a growing scandal over harassment and abuse in the country’s corridors of power. Michael Fallon said in a resignation letter

Allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment, and affairs have been made against 37 male and female Tory MPs and cabinet ministers, including the use of prostitutes and ‘extreme sex acts’ with multiple men.

Female staff working in parliament are naming which MPs to avoid due to allegedly sexually inappropriate behaviour in a secret WhatsApp group, it has been reported.

LONDON (AP) — The British Parliament’s Big Ben bell is due to sound the hour for the last time before it is silenced for repair work scheduled to last until 2021. After 12 deep bongs at noon Monday, the bell

A proposed statue of the late Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher outside Parliament has been blocked after people living nearby complained that it could become a target for vandals.

Queen Elizabeth II has announced the Government’s two-year legislative programme, with Brexit at its heart.

LONDON (AP) — The leader of Britain’s House of Commons says the state opening of Parliament will take place on June 21. The announcement by Andrea Leadsom suggests that Prime Minister Theresa May and the Northern Ireland-based Democratic Unionist Party

LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s parliament votes Wednesday on holding a snap election in June, as Prime Minister Theresa May seeks to make strong gains against the opposition ahead of gruelling Brexit negotiations.

Britain’s bicameral Houses of Parliament are an architectural and artistic testament to, and record of, the self-identity of the nation that built it. But a new initiative at the Palace is working to replace the images of Britain’s historic white, male statesman with works intended to make the building more “aspirational and modern”.

Who knew TV casting directors could hold the key to ending the war on terror?

LONDON (AFP) – British MPs are expected Wednesday to approve the first stage of a bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to start pulling Britain out of the European Union. The House of Commons will hold its first vote on

Bernie Worrell, the ingenious “Wizard of Woo” whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire and influenced performers of funk, rock, hip-hop and other genres, has died.

A male member of Parliament (MP) in Iran is fighting a lawsuit following the outrageous declaration that women, like other animals, do not belong in the legislature.

The art of post-election spin is alive and well in Iran, where both reform-minded “moderates” and “hardliners” claimed victory in the parliamentary elections.

U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump has told Sky News that he was honoured by the response from ordinary Britons following the attempt by socialists and Muslim MPs to ban him from the United Kingdom. Speaking in Iowa to Sky’s Kay

It was perhaps inevitable, when you note the wilful and lazy underreporting by Britain’s mainstream media of issues pertaining to radical Islam, that when a vocal critic came along, people’s first instincts would be to call him a “racist” and

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is not certain to hold a parliamentary vote on taking military action against Islamic State forces in Syria, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said, as it would become “difficult” if opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn orders his MPs

The political party Justice for Men and Boys held a protest outside Parliament today against the practice of circumcision, or as they labelled it, “male genital mutilation” (MGM) which is a “barbaric illegal human rights violation”. Today is International Men’s

The Conservative MP leading the British Parliament’s “Transgender Equalities Inquiry” has promised the recommendations of her committee, which are currently being written, will be “radical”. Of the hundreds of pieces of evidence submitted, only seven were critical of transgender ideology,

The turmoil over selecting a Speaker of the House to replace John Boehner seems positively tranquil compared to the debate over Serbian relations in the parliament of Kosovo. Someone decided to filibuster these talks by throwing tear gas grenades in the middle of a parliamentary session, causing two MPs to pass out

The government’s new Parliamentary Women’s and Equalities Committee is to hear evidence from a one-sided panel on the possibility of introducing a “third gender” into the British legal system. Choosing to have no gender on a passport is already allowed

Anyone watching the debate over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to change the laws governing his nation’s self-defense force and permit overseas military deployments knows it is a highly contentious issue.

When the “Impact Team” hackers dumped their pilfered database of clients for the Ashley Madison adultery website on the Internet, tech experts were quick to point out that it would take some effort to positively identify most of the clients, as many of them employed false names and addresses. Yet it was only a matter of time before the ticking scandal bomb began to detonate. Even with a ten-gigabyte trove of data, cross-indexing doesn’t take very long in the Information Age.

Police faced massive riots in Greece on Wednesday night as Parliament accepted the terms of a debt deal significantly more stringent than that rejected via referendum on July 5. Mass arrests of nationals from Australia, Ukraine, France, and Italy– but not Greece– occurred.

A study of Brazil’s Parliament has found that the most dedicated lawmaker in the government branch, with a 100% attendance record during his first tenure, is a man known by voters as “Tiririca,” or “Grumpy,” the Clown. According to Brazilian

The Group of Seven (G7) kicked off its annual summit this week with the situations in Ukraine and Greece on top of the agenda. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met privately on Sunday to hammer out details about the two countries.

Two members of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament fought early in the week in the auditorium over President Massoud Barzani. The action forced Speaker Tariq Jawhar to investigate the fistfight. “The argument occurred between the two deputies from (Barzani’s) Kurdistan Democratic

Modern politicians are often accused of only being in the job for themselves. Tory Aidan Burley did nothing to allay those concerns as he bowed out of life in Westminster yesterday after just five years in the job. He gave

The Kremlin arrested Ukrainian Member of Parliament Alexei Goncharenko during the memorial march for Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

From Bloomberg Business: The only dependable prediction for the outcome of the U.K.’s May 7 election is this: chaos. All of the opinion polls are clear: Instead of a decisive winner, there will be hobbled aspirants, each cajoling as many

A second all-out fist fight broke out in the Turkish parliament this week after a debate over national security bill opponents claim would significantly hinder the national right of assembly. Numerous legislators were hurt, particularly opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) representative Orhan Düzgün, who fell down a staircase ruling party AKP deputy Suat Önal pushed him.

A legislative floor debate on a controversial homeland security bill rapidly descended into chaos in Turkey late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, with ruling Islamist AKP party members fiercely beating opposition party members and using the ceremonial gavel to break ribs.

Thirteen former ministers have been implicated in historic child sex offences through a dossier handed to the Metropolitan Police by a Labour MP. John Mann told the Sunday Times he had handed over a total of twenty-two names including three