LISBON-Portugal's parliament on Thursday approved the centre-right minority government's 2025 budget Bill on its first reading, forecasting a slight pick-up in growth and a small surplus despite tax cuts for young people and businesses, and wage hikes for some public sector workers. The budget must now pass a second and final vote on Nov.... 29. The Bill passed with only 80 votes in favour from the alliance that supports the government because the Socialist Party, which has 78 seats in parliame

only to abstain in the vote, in exchange for several reform and Covid-19 initiatives. Official sources

When contacted, PTI Central Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry said, “ We are out of the election ”.... Ms Malik’s son MNA Ali Pervaiz is holding corner meetings. PPP’s candidate Chaudhry Aslam Gill has been running his campaign vigorously.... Along with the local leadership, Mr Gill is holding both the door-to-door campaign and also corner meetings.On Thursday, Mr Gill claimed that some notables of the NA-133 belonging to the PTI joined the PPP....

However, the bench ruled that the rest of the jurisdiction may be exercised by the existing/ regular benches of the SHC as per rosters assigned to them and will continue to exercise leftover jurisdiction.... It may be recalled that after the enactment of the 26th Constitutional Amendment, various lawyers used to raise the issue of jurisdiction before regular benches of SHC during the hearing of constitutional petitions.... Thereafter, on Oct 23 the same bench had ruled that at that point of ti

The resolution, adopted with 14 votes in favor, cites" relevant authorities" and does not mention host country agreement.... Russia's abstention from the annual vote comes amid Moscow's international isolation over its invasion of Ukraine last month." We wouldn't want the U.N. mission for assistance in Afghanistan to turn into a United Nations Mission Impossible.... A humanitarian crisis has worsened and the economy faces collapse after international development aid dried up since August and A

Applause broke out in the chamber as the vote was passed. Israel’s prime minister cancelled the planned visit of a high-level delegation to Washington DC in protest, and accused the US of “ retreating ” from what he said had been a “ principled position ”.... But Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said on X that there would be no halt in fighting.“ The state of Israel will not cease fire, ” he said.... “ We will destroy Hamas and continue to fight until the last of the hostages returns ho

while the United Kingdom and Switzerland abstained....

quantitatively and qualitatively. The “world majority” abstained from them.

Fourteen of the council’s 15 members voted for the resolution while Russia abstained. Russian

MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah abstained from supporting Ismail Sabri as prime minister....