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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will hold April 13 parliamentary elections. He did this on Monday. The last elections were in 2012.

exactly 1064 notifications made in the past four years of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium. Victims paid by the church in that period 3.9 million in damages. This is evident from the report 'From taboo to open policy' that will be presented Monday in Brussels.

The Ugandan opposition leader Thursday on the day of the election were arrested. That is a spokeswoman for Kizza Besigye's FDC party said.

A parliamentary inquiry committee of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia will investigate the series of incidents during the last New Year's celebration in Cologne. The committee was installed Thursday by the state parliament.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull takes his cabinet on the shovel. It is the second reshuffle in the five months Turnbull leads the government.

A grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989), may not participate in the parliamentary elections. The 43-year-old Hassan Khomeini was the first descendant of the famous ayatollah who wanted to participate in elections.

The government parties VVD and PvdA found a solution to their disagreement about the personal budget (PGB) in the Health Insurance Act. The PGB people with disabilities can self-manage their care.

Approximately 580 women stand as candidates in parliamentary elections in Iran on 26 February. That is twice as much as four years ago and a new record for the country, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Tehran Tuesday.

The powerful Guardian Council has approved additional in Iran Saturday hundreds of candidates to participate in the parliamentary elections later this month. The decision feeds the hopes of reformists and moderates in the country.

The Dutch film producers and distributors are liable to the State for the millions of euros damage they suffered by the illegal downloading of movies. They estimate the damage at 1.2 billion euros.

Brazil will deploy all necessary resources to combat zikavirus. The Brazilians are primarily interested in the deal with the biggest culprit, the mosquito that transmits the virus. That said President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday at the opening of the Brazilian parliamentary year in the capital Brasilia.

Member of Parliament for Louis Bontes returns to Netherlands (VNL). That the party announced Sunday.

A member of the Flemish Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Christian Van Eyken allegedly involved in the murder of the husband of his mistress in July 2014.

The British security service MI5 was fully aware of torture by the US authorities in Guantánamo Bay. Employees of the British service were even present in December 2002, when prisoners in the camp were tortured in Cuba.

The British Parliament debate Monday on whether the controversial US politician Donald Trump entry to the United Kingdom must be refused. The issue is on the parliamentary agenda by a petition of more than 570,000 people who want that Trump should not come.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Friday declared the economic emergency for a period of sixty days. The state of emergency, according to his government needed because there,, an economic war against Venezuela conducted by rightwing and international circles '', reported media in Caracas.

Group members of the governing parties in Germany have sent a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced their concerns about the refugee crisis. The letter is signed by 'numerous' politicians and sent next week, the German news agency DPA reported Friday. The content of the letter is not disclosed.

The Turkish police in Istanbul Friday raided an office of the pro-Kurdish party HDP and has thereby been arrested six people. The action was part of an operation against the militant youth wing of the PKK.

Hungary will veto any EU sanctions against Poland. This was said by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Friday. Orban spoke Wednesday with the leader of the party Law and Justice (PiS), which governs Poland, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Severe weather, what storm? While large parts of northern England and south-west Scotland for the second time in a week time are white, the top official in charge of limiting flood damage has yet to return from vacation.

Georgian Foreign Minister Georgi Kvirikashvili Friday nominated for the post of prime minister. He thus appears almost certain successor Irakli Garibashvili this week resigned less than a year before the parliamentary elections.

The leader of the Spanish Socialists, Pedro Sanchez, said Wednesday in an interview with the center-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy made clear really not interested in a deal on a new government Rajoy. recruits since the parliamentary elections on Sunday support for a scheme in which his conservative People's Party (PP) ruled on in a minority government, for example, with parliamentary support from the Socialist PSOE.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks Wednesday at noon with the leader of the socialist party PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, reported the Spanish news agency Europa Press. Without an agreement between these two politicians seems a new government Rajoy impossible. Some observers hold Rajoy responsible for the economic recovery that seems to come on stream in Spain.

The new Spanish liberal party Ciudadanos (Citizens) will not be part of a new government. As a party leader Albert Rivera Monday, a day after the parliamentary elections, said.

The system whereby the conservative People's Party (PP) and the Socialist PSOE determined the Spanish politics, with Sunday's elections past. This appears after counting more than half of the votes cast in the Spanish parliamentary elections on Sunday.

In the parliamentary elections Sunday in Spain emerges with more than 58.3 per cent a slightly higher turnout than four years ago (57.6 percent). The difference is very small country, but according to Spanish media the turnout in certain regions measured around 18:00 a lot higher than in 2011 and in some regions is much lower.

A referendum in the Central African Republic (CAR) has unsettled Sunday morning started. In some neighborhoods in the capital, Bangui, people can not go to the polls because of shootings.

The Swiss parliament on Wednesday elected a new cabinet. The big winner of the elections, the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP), won two of the seven ministerial posts in the so-called Federal Council. That there is a more than up to now.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has called on ministers to provide their positions. The departure of the ministers should pave the way for a process of renewal, the Socialist leader said on Tuesday (local time).

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