Lawmaking

By Yew Lun Tian and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not worried about a "domino effect" of diplomatic...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Senate on Thursday approved the extension of a payroll tax exemption for 17 economic sectors until...

By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's center-right President Sebastián Piñera signed into law a bill legalizing same-sex...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Tunisian presidency said on Thursday the political problem in Tunisia today stemmed from the current 2014...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's military government accused senior United Nations officials on Thursday of interference and making judgments based on "distorted...

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's governing Conservative Party was fined 17,800 pounds ($23,500) by the electoral watchdog on...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican measure that would overturn President Joe...

(Reuters) - New Zealand on Thursday said it will ban young people from buying cigarettes for life, one of the...

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bolstering Taiwan's defenses is an urgent task and essential to deterring...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's ruling coalition moved on Wednesday to change two laws critics say would let foreign companies exploit...

By Esteban Medel SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans Javier Silva and Jaime Nazar, a couple for six years, have long wanted...

By Anna-Catherine Brigada TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Xiomara Castro has made history as the first woman to be elected president of...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Pedro Castillo gained breathing room on Tuesday after Congress voted against a motion...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Congress voted against a motion to start an impeachment process against President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday,...

By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's newly re-elected president, Adama Barrow, said on Tuesday that his government plans to...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A proposal to change South Africa's constitution to explicitly allow expropriation of land with...

By Poppy McPherson (Reuters) - The imprisonment of former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced on Monday to two years in detention on charges...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Political crisis in brewing in Peru - yet again. The country's leftist President Pedro...

By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's repeal of agriculture laws aimed at deregulating produce markets will...