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More than 800 people employed at hydropower projects in Nepal remain unaccounted for, the energy minister told parliament last week.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

This week, an Iranian lawmaker introduced a fast-track bill into parliament which calls for Iran to withdraw from the NPT, a step only taken by North Korea before it built nuclear weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The capital rules bill will now move to the lower house of parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

He then led his MSPs out of the chamber, to jeers from the rest of the parliament.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the case of Peugeot SA the crucial story was the French legal code, as written by the French parliament.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Lumsden, who is unable to sit in both parliaments due to a Holyrood ban on so-called dual mandates, is to resign from Holyrood just six weeks after winning re-election as a North East MSP.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

The forums were parliaments of the people, not unlike the meetings of chiefs at the Great Place that I witnessed as a boy.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela