#CANADA: Quebec Parents Demand Better Pedestrian Safety Measures

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Standing on a stepstool in the National Assembly, nine-year old Maïra-Ketia Ropana and Saleh Mahadi spoke about the need for better pedestrian safety.

"We have to do something because the cars drive too fast on the street in front of school," said Saleh, looking over his shoulder at opposition politicians who were in attendance.

"Sometimes the cars don't even stop for the crossing guard," said Maïra-Ketia.

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#PAKISTAN: PM Sharif Wins Confidence Vote

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has won a vote of confidence from the national assembly, in a major victory for the country’s governing coalition amid persistent opposition calls for a general election.

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#TURKEY: Ailing President Campaigns By Remote Video

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Turkey's ailing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday will try to offset his absence from the campaign trail for the May 14 election,  by unveiling a Russian-built nuclear plant by video link.

Erdogan is also expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he attempts to project health and vigour at one the more vulnerable moments of his two-decade rule.

The dominant 69-year-old leader has laid low since getting sick while conducting a live television interview on Tuesday evening.

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#AUSTRALIA: Labor Gov't Seeks To Expand Size Of Parliament

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The size of the federal parliament could be significantly expanded after the next election, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to consider whether to follow his hero Bob Hawke in boosting the n of Parliament umber of politicians.

There are growing calls from election experts to increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives because MPs now represent more than triple the people they did at the time of Federation in 1901, and mainland seats are now almost double the size of electorates in Tasmania.

Parliament has not been expanded since the Bob Hawke government in 1984 increased the number of lower house seats from 125 to 148, with redistributions increasing the number to 151 since then.

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#MALAYSIA: For Some Offenses, Mandatory Death Penalty Abolished

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The Dewan Rakyat, or lower house, of Malaysia’s Parliament on Monday approved legal reforms to abolish the mandatory death penalty for some offences.

The Dewan Negara, or upper house, will now take up the legislation, and if it passes there, it will be sent to the king to be signed into law. It is widely expected to be passed by the upper house.

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#GREECE: PM Disolves Parliament, Sets May 21st Election

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Greece’s president approved a request by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday to dissolve parliament and hold elections on May 21, as the country gears for a vote that is unlikely to produce an outright winner.

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#UK: Deputy PM Resigns, Condemns "Flawed" Investigation

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Dominic Raab has angrily dismissed the findings of a bullying inquiry that has prompted him to resign as justice secretary and deputy prime minister.

The five-month probe, by a senior lawyer, was set up by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after complaints about Mr Raab's behaviour as a minister.

In a letter to Mr Sunak, Mr Raab said he would resign if the inquiry "made any finding of bullying whatsoever".

He said the inquiry "dismissed all but two of the claims levelled against me".

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UK: PM Accused of Delaying Bullying Investigation Into Deputy PM Raab

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of delaying a decision on the future of his deputy Dominic Raab.

A lawyer-led inquiry into bullying allegations against Mr Raab was widely expected to be published today.

But it is now understood that will not happen, prompting opposition parties to accuse the PM of "dithering".

Mr Sunak needs to decide whether Mr Raab, one of his closest allies, has broken ministerial rules and must be sacked or resign.

The PM received the inquiry's findings at around 11:30 BST, with No 10 saying earlier it would be published "as swiftly as possible"

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#UK: Bank of England, Parliament Consider New Crypto Regulations

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The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority plan on consulting on new rules for stablecoins later this year, Cunliffe said. Last May the bank said it will regulate stablecoins that could have an impact on financial stability. Meantime, the Financial Services and Markets Bill, which will help regulators put in place rules for crypto and bring stablecoins under existing payment legislation, is nearing its final stages in Parliament.

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#RUSSIA,: Putin Using Treason Laws Against Dissenters

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Russia is increasingly using treason and espionage laws to smother criticism of the war against Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin’s government widened the scope of the legislation and expanded his crackdown on opponents.

Sentences are often longer than they were before last year’s invasion, Russian lawyers and  human-rights defenders say, and prosecutors often add more severe charges including terrorism and extremism to acts of dissent that were previously punished with petty fines or suspended sentences.

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#UK: PM Sunak Under Investigation For Gov't Contracts To Wife's Company

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Rishi Sunak is now under investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner over an alleged failure to declare an interest. The PM recently failed to declare his wife's shares in a childcare agency, when asked about his decision to hand government subsidies to them.

The ethics committee is looking into Sunak's wife's financial interest in Koru Kids, which is set to benefit from new government childcare policies. 

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#EU: French Greens Will Oppose Market areforms To Emissions Plan

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In December, negotiators from the European Parliament, the Commission and EU member states reached agreement on the reformed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU’s carbon market and flagship climate policy tool.

A key sticking point in the reformed ETS was a proposal to extend carbon pricing to heating and transport fuels, such as petrol, diesel, heating oil and gas, which will start applying as of 2027.

The new carbon tax is expected to add 10 eurocents to the price of petrol, but its impact will be softened by the introduction of a new social climate fund worth €87 billion.

The French Greens are expected to oppose the reformed ETS, and it is unclear whether their socialist counterparts in S&D, who in France are part of the left-wing alliance NUPES, will follow them or not.

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#UGANDA: Bill Prioritizes East African Goods, Services

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Uganda's Parliament has considered President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s recommendation on prioritisation of procurement of goods, works and services from the East African region under the passed National Local Content Bill, 2022.

President Museveni returned the Bill, that was initially passed by parliament on 6th September, 2022 disagreeing with Clause 4 which provided that a local entity shall give preference to goods which are manufactured and services which are provided by Ugandan entities.

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#SWITZERLAND: Lawmakers Take Symbolic vote Rejecting Bank Merger

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The Swiss Lower House has voted to retrospectively reject the 109 billion Swiss

 Franc rescue package for the embattled Credit Suisse bank.

On Tuesday the upper house approved the package. The vote was largelybaymbolic, 

since the Takeover of the bank by UBS has already occurred.

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UK: Liberal Democrat's Murderous Rants On Facebook Uncovered

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A Liberal Democrat candidate in the upcoming local elections made shocking statements in a number of Facebook posts promoting violence and a desire to “kill” before she was involved with the party.

Nikita Primrose Sykes, who is the party’s candidate in the North Yorkshire seat of Skelton West, said “I really really want to kill something” among numerous other violent social media statuses, posted a decade ago.

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#GREECE: Small Right -Wing Party Banned By Lawmakers

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Greek MPs have voted to ban the extreme-right Greeks-National Party from running in elections, aiming to block its members linked to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn criminal organization from entering parliament.

The Greeks-National Party was founded two years ago by former lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris, who is currently serving a more than 13-year prison sentence over his leading role in Golden Dawn, which was declared a criminal organization in 2020 for charges including murder, racist violence and money laundering. Kasidiaris still managed to gain significant support from messages posted on YouTube while in jail.

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#CANADA: Conservative Leader, Western Premiers, Condemns Justice Minister Over Provincial Resources Statement

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and three western premiers are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to disassociate his government from comments made by his justice minister — who promised last week to "look at" a decades-old law that gives control over natural resources to the four western provinces.

"The federal government cannot unilaterally change the Constitution," the premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba said in a joint statement Tuesday. "It should not even be considering stripping resource rights away from the three Prairie provinces.

Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Justice Minister David Lametti of threatening to overturn the Constitution and take federal control over provincial resources.

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#ISRAEL: Netanyahu Decides To Keep Defense Minister

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Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed his decision to fire defence minister Yoav Gallant, amid deteriorating security that has left the country battling threats on multiple fronts.

Netanyahu originally said two weeks ago he would sack Gallant after the defence minister spoke out against the government’s controversial plans to weaken the powers of the judiciary. The minister warned that the deep polarisation caused by the proposals was undermining Israeli security.

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#UKRAINE: Parliament Gives Extra US $800 To Non-Frontline Soldiers

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The Verkhovna Rada [the Ukrainian Parliament] voted on 10 April in favor of the general draft law with an amendment that restores the additional allowance of UAH 30,000 [roughly US$800] to Ukrainian soldiers outside the combat zone.

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#CHINA: Health Officials Reject WHO Criticism Of COVID Investigation

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Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic information earlier.

The director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's, Shen Hongbing, said the WHO comments were "offensive and disrespectful."

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#SPAIN: New Law Allows Legal Gender Change Without The Transition

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A new national law for "real and effective equality for trans people" came into force in Spain on March 2, 2023, allowing a Spanish citizen to change their gender identity in the civil register without undergoing a two-year hormonal treatment or obtaining a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, as required by previous legislation.

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#SWITZERLAND: Parliament Opens Inquiry Into Credit Suisse Takeover By UBS.

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The Office of the National Council, the lower house of the Swiss parliament, is calling for a parliamentary inquiry commission to be set up to examine details of the recent takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS.

The Office of the National Council voted unanimously in favor of the establishment of the Parliamentary Commission (PUK) to clarify the responsibilities of the authorities and bodies in connection with Credit Suisse’s takeover by UBS, it said.

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#UK: Labour Party Leader Says Some Women Have Penises

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UK Labour Party Leader Sir Keir Starmer has said some women, as many as one and every 1000 - have a penis this weekend, in an interview that is likely to cause friction within the Labour Party.

The Holborn and St Pancras MP has repeatedly found himself struggling to define what a woman is since taking over the role of Opposition Leader in 2020. Taking a definitive stand on the side of transsexual activists will likely invite withering criticism from conservatives, as both parties prepare to head into elections. 

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#MONTENEGRO: Longtime President Ousted In Election By Ex-Economy Minister

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Former Economic Minister Jakov Milatovic is the new president of Montenegro, He ousts President Milo Djukanovic, who had held power for over 30 years in the Balkan nation.

CeMI : Based on 80.7% of the processed sample, the results are as follows:

Jakov Milatovic: 60.2%

Milo Djukanovic: 39.8%

Nominally pro Western, Milatovic Is supported by Serbian nationalists and pro Russian parties.

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#FINLAND: Conservatives To Take Power After Parliamentary Elections

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Finland headed to the polls on Sunday and ousted once-popular Prime Minister Sanna Marin from office in the country's parliamentary elections, denying her a second term as the government.

Marin was looking to win re-election by keeping her liberal Social Democrats party in power. However, with 97.7% of the votes tallied, it was the conservative National Coalition party emerging victorious with 20.7%. In second place was the far-right, nationalist Finns party with 20.1 percent, with the Social Democrats garnering 19.9%.

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