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London: UK Parliament has issued the following news release: Between 1970 and the early 1990s, over 30,000 NHS patients were given blood transfusions, or treatments made using blood products, which [...]

Byline: Mathew Dunckley Jul 30, 2024 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Victorian government has rejected the Opposition's draft legislation that aimed to ban members of 28 criminal [...]

Byline: Mathew Dunckley Jul 30, 2024 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Victorian government has rejected the Opposition's draft legislation that aimed to ban members of 28 criminal [...]

An excessive concentration of power in the executive, aggravated by a lack of effective separation of powers, will weigh on political effectiveness in 2024-28. Before the PRM came to power [...]

(JURIST) - Colombia President Gustavo Petro apologized Saturday for a corruption scandal involving the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD) as he inaugurated a new session of Congress. During the [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following news release: Between 1970 and the early 1990s, more than 30,000 NHS patients were given blood transfusions, or treatments which used blood products, [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following House of Commons Hansard: We have seen many injustices debated in this House. Just today, we have seen the injustice of the WASPI [...]

(JURIST) - The Federal Prosecutor General authorized on Tuesday the search of the Brussels offices of Maximilian Krah, a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and EU Parliament. Krah, [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following House of Commons Hansard: It cannot be repeated often enough that the Horizon scandal remains one of the greatest miscarriages of justice our [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following House of Commons Hansard: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz. I thank the Minister for outlining the details [...]

What's happened? The ruling coalition led by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party's (PSOE) was thrown into chaos in late February following a scandal regarding the procurement of facemasks during the [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following news release: The Windrush generation refers to individuals who migrated to the UK from Commonwealth countries between 1948 and 1973. Despite legal entitlement [...]

What's happened? On February 10th Hungary's figurehead president, Katalin Novak, an ally of the ruling right-wing Fidesz party, resigned over a controversial pardon decision, dealing an ill-timed political blow to [...]

Byline: David Ross and Tansy Harcourt Feb 08, 2024 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A Senate inquiry into the consulting sector will resume on Friday, with PwC Australia [...]

What's happened? The political fundraising scandal facing Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) continues to brew, having already implicated three of the six factions within the party. On January 22nd [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following news release: MPs quiz the Government and other stakeholders on what more can be done to deliver full, fair and fast compensation for [...]

Singapore's main opposition party announced that lawmaker Leon Perera resigned following an affair with a colleague just days after two ruling party members of parliament stepped down over a similar [...]

Mr Kishida succeeded in slowly improving his political standing in early 2023, on the back of robust wage increases by Japan's major companies and the successful hosting of the G7 [...]

(JURIST) - NHK News revealed in an exclusive report Tuesday that the Tokyo Prosecutors Office conducted a raid of the ruling Liberal Democratic Partys (LDP) offices on allegations that the [...]

Michael Yang, Linconn Ong and the other masterminds of the Pharmally scandal are not off the hook just yet. As one of the senators who took part in the Senate [...]

The US Supreme Court has introduced an ethics code in the wake of recent controversies involving justices receiving extravagant gifts and luxury vacations. Giving new meaning to the phrase 'the [...]

What's happened? Antonio Costa, Portugal's prime minister and leader of the centre-left Socialist Party (PS), resigned on November 7th, hours after several government officials were made formal suspects in an [...]

What's happened? In early October an investment bank, UBS, reached an out-of-court settlement with the Mozambican government over the long-running 'tuna bonds scandal'-which involved a UBS subsidiary, Credit Suisse-on the [...]

What's happened? On September 3rd Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, announced his decision to replace the defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, amid a series of corruption scandals involving ministry officials. In the [...]

Helsinki, Finland: Finns Party MP Jani Makela told Yle's A-Talk current affairs program on Thursday that he cannot say for certain that his party will not become embroiled in any [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following House of Commons Hansard: I beg to move, That this House has considered the management culture at Post Office Ltd. It is a [...]

What's happened? Liberal Party members of parliament (MPs) have sought to distance themselves from the previous prime minister and their former leader, Scott Morrison, after a Royal Commission into the [...]

What's happened? In February 2023 a civil court annulled a contract that led to the privatisation of hospitals, in a judgment that described the agreement as fraudulent. The government also [...]

Ahead of assembly elections, Karnataka Congress party today released a 'corruption rate card' in the state between 2019 and 2023, alleging that the ruling BJP govt in state has 'looted' [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following written answer: Answer Lord Murray of Blidworth Conservative Answered on 2 May 2023 If an individual is dissatisfied with the outcome of their [...]

What's happened? On April 19th a third Ugandan minister was charged in a corruption case involving the alleged theft of iron roofing sheets intended to be distributed to vulnerable households [...]

(JURIST) - An advisory body to the UK Parliament Wednesday warned of the risk of hostile foreign actors gaining improper access and influence to Members of Parliament. The Commons Standard [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following House of Commons Hansard: I have secured this debate to consider the urgent need to put an end to the ongoing scandal of [...]

(JURIST) - The European Parliament Thursday stripped two additional European lawmakers of their immunity from prosecution. Belgian authorities may now question the lawmakers in their investigation into a cash-for-influence bribery [...]

(JURIST) - President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola Monday announced a series of reforms for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).The possible reforms include increasing transparency through various measures [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-December 16, 2022-: Press release - Corruption scandal: MEPs insist on reforms for transparency and accountability (C)1994-2022 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:15122022 Following Tuesday's debate, Parliament has adopted a resolution on [...]

Brussels: European Parliament has issued the following press release: All work related to Qatar should be suspended, no access to Parliament for Qatari interest representatives Set up an inquiry committee [...]

Outgoing government in Malaysia seeks democratic mandate The 2018 general election appeared to be a vote for change, ousting the long-term governing party, UMNO, which was embroiled in a corruption [...]