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  • Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, on Saturday passed with a wide majority the most important article of a law to legalize same-sex marriage.

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  • Republicans have been cleaning up over the past decade, but the pendulum has clearly swung and there's a chance the Democrat will take at least one house of the Virginia General Assembly.

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  • Abe is on a mission to reinvigorate the Japanese economy, win control of the upper house of the Diet (National Assembly) in summer elections and push through constitutional revision to remove constraints on Japan's military.

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  • The commission - chaired by Paul Silk, a former clerk to the Welsh assembly and the House of Commons - is examining how the Welsh government is funded, looking at whether it should take further responsibility for raising the money it spends.

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  • And following the decision of Martin McGuinness to resign as an MP in order to avoid so-called "double-jobbing", by holding a seat in both the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly, a by-election is also expected in his Mid Ulster constituency.

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  • In Pakistan, 60 of the 342 seats in the lower house of parliament, known as the National Assembly, are reserved for women.

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  • It said the money saved by cutting the size of the House of Lords could be spent on a bigger assembly - something that was needed to hold the Welsh government to account.

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  • The Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales for the historic royal opening of the Assembly at its temporary home in Crickhowell House.

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  • While all four parliaments in the UK, The National Assembly for Wales, Stormont, Holyrood and the House of Commons, rang in unison.

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  • As such, she becomes the first third-party member of the Assembly, the state's lower legislative house, since 1917, and the first Green elected to partisan office in the United States.

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  • The nation's parliament consists of the Upper House (Senate) and the Lower House (National Assembly) and the four provincial assemblies.

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  • U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told an assembly of marchers, after they reached their rallying area midway between the White House and the Capitol, that Saturday's demonstration wasn't about the Second Amendment.

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  • Last week's House of Commons vote blocked boundary changes at Westminster and led to the Wales Office abandoning consequential changes to assembly boundaries which would, coincidentally or not, have made it more difficult for Labour to win a majority in Cardiff Bay.

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  • In stark contrast to his colleague, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, also a Republican, handed out Girl Scout cookies on the floor of the General Assembly on Tuesday.

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  • The Secretary-General next met the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ahmed al-Sadoun and then met staff at the United Nations House.

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  • Dundee Sheriff Court heard that prosecutors allege he rigged up a "man-made assembly in his house suspended from the ceiling by thin ropes, with a car battery and cans of petrol nearby".

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