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...Iran Responding to economic sanctions the U.N. Security Council imposed on Tehran last month for refusing to end its nuclear program, the Iranian parliament passed a measure on Dec. 27 to accelerate its research and limit cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). More restrictions could follow...
...During their decade-long reign, the Howard government has considered amending the law in 1998 and again in 2001, but both times they backed down. Still, the issue remained on the table, and when the Minister for Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts, Helen Coonan, introduced a bill to parliament this March, it came as little surprise...
...shut them out of power - even kicking Khatami out of a courtesy office within the presidential compound - have made conservatives and reformists alike determined to get their revenge. One senior conservative leader, who did not want to be identified, even predicted in a TIME interview that the Iranian parliament would oust Ahmadinejad before the end of his term in 2009. "Most of the decision makers and the elite are against him," he said with a disdainful look. "If he becomes less popular, even the Supreme Leader will withdraw his support." That is doubtful, given Ahmadinejad's closeness to Khamenei...
STEPHEN HARPER, who was elected Prime Minister of Canada in January, responding to claims that he "seduced" a Liberal Member of Parliament to join his Conservative Party...
Happily, even before the deal was finalized, some of the heat had gone out of the controversy. At a hearing at the French Parliament in June to which Mittal was invited, one deputy, Paul Giacobbi, described the personal attacks as "shameful" and said they did not represent the view of France. And Patrick Ollier, the head of the finance committee, said that the Parliament "has had the opportunity to get to know a great European captain of industry...