Afghan parliament passes revised amnesty bill
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The Afghan parliament passed a revised bill on Saturday that called for amnesty for groups involved in war crimes but also recognized the victims' right to seek justice, lawmakers said.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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The Turkish Parliament on Sunday approved a revision of the country&#39;s penal code, after the government dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery.
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The upper house of Pakistan's parliament approves a bill amending an Islamic law on rape and adultery.
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Around 25,000 supporters of former Afghan warlords, including some senior government figures, have filled a Kabul stadium Friday in a noisy show of support for a controversial proposed war crimes amnesty.
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KIEV -- The bitter political crisis that has gripped Ukraine for more than two weeks eased dramatically yesterday as parliament overwhelmingly approved a compromise package of laws strengthening safeguards against electoral fraud while weakening presidential powers.
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Thousands turn out in the Afghan capital Kabul to voice support for a controversial proposed war crimes amnesty.
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A bill is currently in Uganda's parliament that would strengthen women's rights.
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Taiwanese lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly agreed to slash in half the 225-seat legislature and revamp the election system &#151; sweeping historic changes designed to tackle corruption and weed out misbehaving legislators.
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Afghanistan's warlord-filled parliament has approved a bill ruling out judicial proceedings against men accused of rights abuses in the past 25 years of conflict, a spokesman said.
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Parliament adopted a bill Tuesday recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in a vote seen as a victory for pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko.Comment
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The upper house of parliament passed a resolution Tuesday that calls for an amnesty for Afghans &#151; including some lawmakers and members of the government &#151; who are suspected of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, an official said. President Hamid Karzai will now decide whether it should become law, said Kadamali Nekpai, chief of the upper house's press department.
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Parliamentarians renewed the country&#39;s 28-day limit for detaining terrorism suspects without charge for another year Tuesday.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to pass a broad package of constitutional and electoral reforms, clearing the way for a new presidential run-off vote December 26.
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Ukraine's parliament approved on Wednesday  a series of laws and constitutional changes aimed at resolving  the post-election crisis which has pushed the ex-Soviet state  into turmoil.
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Japan's parliament revised the country's central education law Friday to require schools to encourage patriotism in the classroom for the first time since World War II.
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The French parliament votes to approve a draft law approving the new EU reform treaty.