The speaker of the lower house of Ireland's parliament defeated a no confidence motion laid down by the main opposition parties as expected on Tuesday after maintaining the support of the coalition government.
Verona Murphy, an independent lawmaker whose elevation to the post after a November general election was backed by the ruling Fine Gael and Fianna Fail and their independent allies, rejected calls to quit last week over a dispute about speaking rights that has impacted the workings of parliament.
Opposition parties have protested against a new rule that government-supporting independents retain extended speaking rights previously afforded to them in opposition, interrupting sittings and delaying the appointment of all committees.
The opposition accused Murphy of bypassing parliamentary rules last week by hastening a vote on the government's speaking proposals. She categorically rejected the allegations.
Lawmakers voted confidence in Murphy - the first time a speaker in the parliament has faced such a motion - by 96 to 71.
Police in Dar es Salaam fired gunshots and tear gas on Thursday to break up renewed protests following a disputed general election, a Reuters witness ...
Reliable sources told AnewZ that the United States has asked Azerbaijan to join a Stabilisation Force in Gaza, a proposed international mission to sec...
The U.S. will halve its fentanyl-related tariff on Chinese goods to 10% following a summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping in South K...
A U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific killed four men, marking the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s...
Hurricane Melissa tore across the northern Caribbean on Wednesday, devastating Jamaica, battering Cuba’s east, and flooding parts of Haiti, where at...
Reliable sources told AnewZ that the United States has asked Azerbaijan to join a Stabilisation Force in Gaza, a proposed international mission to secure the territory once the fighting stops and humanitarian access expands.
The U.S. will halve its fentanyl-related tariff on Chinese goods to 10% following a summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
A U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific killed four men, marking the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s expanding campaign against narcotics networks across the Americas, according to international media.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the U.S. military to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in 33 years, minutes before meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.Trump made the surprise announcement on Truth Social while aboard his Marine One helicopt
A small, silent object from another star is cutting through the Solar System. It’s real, not a film, and one scientist thinks it might be sending a message.
Nokia announced on Tuesday that chipmaker Nvidia will acquire a $1 billion stake in the company.
The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history killed at least 132 people, officials said on Wednesday, after Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses collected overnight, a week ahead of global climate events in the city.
Centrist liberal party D66, led by 38-year-old Rob Jetten, has made sweeping gains in the Dutch election, emerging neck and neck with Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party (PVV) in early results - a stunning reversal just two years after D66 ranked sixth.With 90% of votes counted early on Thursday
NASA’s experimental X-59 quiet supersonic jet successfully took off from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, early on Tuesday (October 28), marking a major milestone in the future of high-speed air travel.
Police in Dar es Salaam fired gunshots and tear gas on Thursday to break up renewed protests following a disputed general election, a Reuters witness said.
The U.S. will halve its fentanyl-related tariff on Chinese goods to 10% following a summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
A U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific killed four men, marking the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s expanding campaign against narcotics networks across the Americas, according to international media.
Hurricane Melissa tore across the northern Caribbean on Wednesday, devastating Jamaica, battering Cuba’s east, and flooding parts of Haiti, where at least 25 people were killed.
New Zealand announced on Thursday that it would broaden sanctions against Russia’s oil sector and its so-called shadow fleet, during a meeting with the foreign ministers of the five Nordic countries in Stockholm.
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