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“We have requested information, as well as fair treatment and humanitarian consideration,” Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told parliament Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

A British lawmaker made history on Tuesday by becoming the first person to use an AI-generated voice to deliver a speech in the UK parliament.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

A new law to create it is making its way through parliament.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The body had originally been due to lie in state at parliament, but the scale of the crowds and fears of a security breach forced a last-minute change of venue to Kasarani Stadium.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

And yes, just days before those crucial elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and to many English local authorities.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann