Lawmaker

Bomb targets Iraq lawmaker from Sunni-backed list (AP)

November 20th, 2010

In this photo provided by the New York City Mayor's Office, Medal of Honor winner Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, left, and his wife Jennifer, are welcomed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to City Hall in New York, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. Giunta, from Hiawatha, Iowa, is the first living veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to receive the award.  (AP Photo/New York City Mayor's Office, Edward Reed)AP - A roadside bomb went off in the northern city of Mosul Friday, narrowly missing a member of a Sunni-backed political bloc but killing one of his bodyguards, Iraqi…

Afghan lawmaker: Karzai in talks with Haqqani (AP)

October 20th, 2010

Fazl Ahmed Manawi, chairman of the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC), speaks during a news conference in Kabul October 20, 2010. Almost a quarter of the 5.6 million votes cast in Afghanistan's parliamentary election last month were invalid, election commission officials said while releasing provisional results on Wednesday. Afghanistan's IEC said it had ruled 1.3 million votes invalid, and that ballots collected from 2,543 of the 17,744 polling stations which opened for the Sept. 18 vote had been disqualified. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)AP - The Afghan government has been in reconciliation talks for months with members of a Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida and responsible for lethal attacks on coalition forces…

Lawmaker: mine collapse warning ignored (AP)

October 19th, 2010

People wait in line to see the Phoenix 2 capsule, which lifted 33 trapped miners to the surface from the collapsed San Jose mine, as it is exhibited outside the government palace in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Sanchez)AP - A Chilean legislative commission is investigating reports that mining operators ignored danger warnings from a man who was later among 33 later trapped when a mine collapsed.


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Hamas says group’s lawmaker arrested in West Bank (AP)

October 18th, 2010

A Palestinian reacts during the funeral for militant Mahmoud Washa at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City October 17, 2010. An Israeli air strike killed Washa in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday when he and others attempted to launch a rocket or mortar shell towards Israel, the Israeli army and Palestinian medics said. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemAP - The Palestinian militant Hamas group says Israeli soldiers have arrested one of its lawmakers in the West Bank.


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Mexico: Alleged chat between lawmaker, capo leaked (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Forensic police officers work at the crime scene where a body of a woman was found inside a car in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. Ciudad Juarez has become one of Mexico's deadliest cities as drug gangs continue to battle for control of smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - A radio station broadcast what it described as a telephone conversation in which a federal lawmaker and one of Mexico’s biggest drug lords express support for each other.


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Australian key lawmaker backs Labor to govern (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard edged closer to retaining power in Australia on Thursday when an independent lawmaker said he would support her center-left Labor Party to form Australia’s…

45 die in revenge attacks in Pakistan’s Karachi (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

A main road of central karachi is deserted as tension mounted following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement in Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gunmen killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Gunmen killed at least 45 people in Pakistan’s largest city after the assassination of a prominent lawmaker set off a cycle of revenge attacks, officials said Tuesday. Dozens…

Officials: 37 gunned down in Pakistan’s Karachi (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

A bus burns having been set alight by protesters in Karachi on August 2, 2010. Outbreaks of violence in Pakistan's largest city killed at least 31 people overnight, following the killing of a Pakistani lawmaker in a drive-by shooting, a senior police official said.(AFP/Asif Hassan)AP - Gunmen went on killing sprees in Pakistan’s largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, killing at least 37 people by Tuesday. Dozens of vehicles and shops were…

Iran cancels plan to send ship to Gaza (AP)

June 26th, 2010

An Israeli man holds a banner of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit during a rally calling for his release, near Beit Kama, southern Israel, Saturday June 26, 2010. Friday, June 25, 2010 marked four years since Schalit was captured by Hamas. The Hebrew on the banner reads 'Gilad is still alive.'  (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)AP - Iran will not be sending a blockade-busting ship to Gaza in defiance of Israeli warnings, an Iranian lawmaker said Saturday, citing Israeli “restrictions.”


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Scottish lawmaker resigns over Filipino comments (AFP)

June 17th, 2010

The Houses of Parliament in London. A Scottish lawmaker has been forced to quit his role on a parliamentary committee after being caught on microphone saying a woman in the audience was AFP - A Scottish lawmaker was forced to quit his role on a parliamentary committee after being caught on microphone saying a woman in the audience was “very attractive” with…