Australia's parliament voted Monday to implement a maritime border treaty with East Timor, potentially unlocking billions in offshore oil and gas revenue after a bitter decade-long dispute.

Australia ratifies maritime boundaries with East Timor

The US Senate on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to extend funding for first responders and others injured during the September 11 attacks, compensating through 2092 those who helped rescue people and remove debris in hazardous conditions.

US Senate passes 9/11 victim fund, sends it to President Donald Trump

A dark cloud of impeachment has threatened President Donald Trump for many months, with Democrats in the US House of Representatives, where any such effort to remove him from office would begin, divided about whether to proceed.

What it would take for US Congress to impeach Trump?

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to block emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The three resolutions which were approved by the US House were already passed by the Senate.

US House votes to block 'emergency' arms sale to Saudi Arabia

U.S. Senate Blocks The Sale Of Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Weapons In Saudi Arabia

Gravitas: Senate Rebukes U.S Arms sale to Saudi Arabia

Thailand's Parliament has elected 2014 coup leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha as prime minister in a vote that helps ensure the military's sustained dominance of politics since the country became a constitutional monarchy nearly nine decades ago.

Thai Parliament votes for coup leader to stay on as Prime Minister

Impeachment of a US president does not mean an immediate ouster from office, or as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it on Wednesday, a "bye, bye birdie.

Impeachment is not a quick bye, bye birdie: Nancy  Pelosi

$1 billion from Pentagon for Trump's wall: US Congress committee says move not permitted A Democrat-led congressional committee challenged Tuesday the Pentagon's plan to divert $1 billion to support President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.

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President Donald Trump suffered an embarrassing defeat Thursday at the hands of US senators, including fellow Republicans, who voted to terminate his declaration of an emergency on the border with Mexico.

Trump vows veto as Senate rebuke Mexico border emergency

Brazil's lower chamber handed right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro his first defeat in Congress on Tuesday, the day before his government presents its most important legislative proposal to rein in a gaping budget deficit and spur growth.

Brazil's Bolsonaro suffers first defeat in Congress

US senators from both parties introduced a resolution on Tuesday requiring that any deal to share US nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia block the kingdom from making a nuclear weapon.

US Senate proposal would block Saudi path to atomic weapon in nuclear deal

An ally of Jair Bolsonaro won a fraught vote for the head of Brazil's Senate on Saturday, a boost for the far-right president's legislative efforts to open the economy, tackle crime and enact socially conservative measures.

Bolsonaro ally wins Senate leadership, smoothing legislative path

Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives floated the idea on Wednesday of ending a partial US government shutdown by giving President Donald Trump most or all of the money he seeks for security along the Mexican border but for items other than the wall he wants.

Democrats push technology as alternative to Trump wall in shutdown impasse

In a rare break with President Donald Trump, the Senate voted on Wednesday to move ahead with a resolution to end US military support for the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in the war in Yemen and lawmakers vowed to push for sanctions against the kingdom in the new year.

Defying Trump, US Senate advances measure to end support for Saudis in Yemen

U.S Senate Resolution on Yemen War

US Senate Democrats are considering legal action over President Donald Trump`s appointment of a new acting attorney general, congressional sources said on Friday, as some outside experts called the move unconstitutional.

Senate Democrats weigh lawsuit over Trump's appointment of new acting attorney general

US Midterm polls: 87 women winning in the house marks a new high

US midterm polls: Republicans to hold the Senate while Democrats make gains in House

The US midterm elections on Tuesday will bring a range of fresh faces to Washington, from the vice president's brother to the youngest-ever woman in Congress. Here is a look at some of the most prominent of the new legislators: Young left-wing star At 29, staunch left-winger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and one of the youngest members ever.

Young progressives, VP brother to enter US Congress

President Donald Trump called Tuesday's midterm congressional elections a "tremendous success," despite his Republican Party losing control of the House of Representatives.

Trump calls midterm elections a 'tremendous success'

Republicans aimed to retain Senate control in Tuesday's voting and renew their role as guardians of President Donald Trump's conservative agenda, banking on a lopsided electoral map that imperiled far more Democratic seats to offset Trump's deeply divisive effect on voters.

GOP aims to keep Senate control, aided by Trump-friendly map

Vermont's Bernie Sanders has cruised to re-election for his third term in the Senate, easily outpacing eight candidates. Sanders, the independent who has long been one of the state's most popular politicians, spent little time campaigning ahead of the election.

Vermont's Bernie Sanders cruises to 3rd Senate term

The US Senate girded Friday for a critical, too-close-to-call vote on moving ahead with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, as Republicans brushed aside complaints by Democrats that a new FBI probe of sexual assault allegations against him was rushed and incomplete.

US Senate braces for key vote on embattled court nominee

The amendment was designed in part to increase support from many parents, law enforcement officials and legislators in both parties who object to arming teachers, as well as from Governor Rick Scott, a Republican also on record as opposed to the idea

Florida lawmakers pass bill to increase minimum age on gun sales, arming teachers

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