CURRENT NEWS ITEM: MPS VIE FOR SPEAKER'S POST AS PARLIAMENT SET TO OPEN

TOP - 50 RELEVANT BREAKING NEWS

1. European parliament passes resolution on recognizing Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as horrible crime and calls on post-Soviet countries to open archives

2. Communist Party Not Planning To Support Pliusch's Candidacy For Post Of Parliament Speaker

   The Communist Party faction's leader Petro Symonenko announced this to journalists after the leaders of parliamentary factions met with the leadership of the parliament.

3. Ukrainian speaker closes parliament meeting on Thursday

4. Parliament still legitimate and can work - deputy Speaker

   Tomenko refers to Constitution

5. MP Kolesnykov Of Party Of Regions: Speaker Post Unattractive For Yanukovych

   He has announced this in his interview with the Korrespondent magazine.

6. Current parliament works in accordance with Constitution of Ukraine, Deputy Speaker Mykola Tomenko says

   He said that many presidential advisors and politicians who would like to live in Ukraine without the parliament are confident that as soon as a presidential decree on the parliament's dissolution is published, the Verkhovna Rada will be unable to

7. Verkhovna Rada Speaker asks Constitutional Court to quicken discussion of issue of presidential powers to dismiss parliament

8. Ukrainian parliament speaker supports NBU ban on early payments of deposits

9. Megacoalition impossible in existing parliament, says Ukrainian speaker

10. Yushchenko met Turkish parliament speaker

    President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and Turkish Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan discussed ratification of agreement on scientific and energetic cooperation. The press service of the President of Ukraine reports.

11. Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk closes VR's evening meeting

    He sais consultations among the parliament heads, the government and faction leaders on the priority of consideration of anti-crisis bills would continue at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

12. Speaker closes parliament's meeting on Wednesday

13. Parliament's meeting on Friday to start one hour later, says speaker

14. Fists fly as Ukraine's parliament sacks speaker

    Fists fly as Ukraine's parliament sacks speaker

15. Rwanda: Speaker Wants Parliament Involved in GBV Fight

    The Speaker of Parliament, Rose Mukantabana, has called upon stakeholders involved in fighting Gender Based Violence (GBV) to work closely with lawmakers to ensure the rooting out of the vice.

16. Angola: Parliament Speaker Leaves for Uganda

    The National Assembly (Angolan Parliament) speaker, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, left Luanda Friday for Kampala, Uganda, to attend the 31st Conference of the African Parliamentary Union (APU) starting Saturday.

17. Communists not to back nomination of Pliusch as parliament speaker

    The faction of the Communist Party will not support the nomination of Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc MP Ivan Pliusch for the post of Verkhovna Rada chairman.

18. OU-PSD faction to propose candidature of Ivan Plyushch to Speaker's post

    This was disclosed by "Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense" MP Oleksandr Omelchenko while commenting the results of the meeting that was held by President Viktor Yushchenko with the "Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense" MPs.

19. Turchynov Hoping That Parliament Speaker Will Be Elected On December 4

    Turchynov announced this to journalists.

20. European Party Advocates Reinstatement Of Yatseniuk As Parliament Speaker

    Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the European Party, the wording of which was made available to the agency.

21. Yuschenko threatens to dissolve parliament if Pliusch not backed as candidate for speaker

    Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko, at a meeting with Interior Minister and People's Self-Defense Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, demanded that his political force support the candidacy of Ivan Pliusch for the post of Verkhovna Rada speaker, otherwise, he said he would sign a decree dissolving the parliament.

22. Amur Parliament Speaker Offers to Organize New Economic Forum

    Its main subject should be development of border cooperation.VLADIVOSTOK, December 6, vladivostoktimes.com Special international economic forum, directed to solution of problems and finding prospects of development of border cooperation, is offered to be organized in Amur Area by the Chairman

23. Party of Regions proposes its candidacy for post of Speaker

    They hope to receive support

24. Newly elected parliament speaker announces parliamentary coalition of BYT, OU-PSD and Lytvyn Bloc

    Newly elected Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has announced the creation of a coalition of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT), the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) Bloc and the Bloc of Lytvyn.

25. Lytvyn elected as Speaker of Ukrainian parliament

    With 244 votes for...

26. Yuschenko hoping that Lytvyn's election as speaker may help restore parliament's work

    Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has welcomed the election of the new Verkhovna Rada chairman ,Volodymyr Lytvyn, the presidential press service reported on Wednesday.

27. Iraqi Parliament Speaker to Resign Over Shoe-Toss

    Iraq's parliament speaker announced his resignation Wednesday after a parliamentary session descended into chaos as lawmakers argued about whether to free a journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush.

28. U.S. intends to open diplomatic post in Crimea

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States intends to open a diplomatic post in Ukraine's Crimea, a region that is home to many ethnic Russians as well as Russia's Black Sea fleet and is a source of tension between Kiev and Moscow.

29. Iraq parliament speaker quits, troops impasse ends

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi parliamentary speaker resigned on Tuesday, ending a long-running power struggle and allowing lawmakers to authorize British and other non-U.S. foreign troops to remain in the country into 2009....

30. Iraqi Parliament Speaker Resigns

    After the resignation, Parliament approved a resolution to allow British and other foreign troops to stay in Iraq into 2009.

31. Iraqi parliament ousts speaker, OKs non-US troops

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's fractious parliament squeezed its abrasive speaker out of a job Tuesday and authorized non-U.S. foreign troops to stay in the country for another half-year, a pair of high-stakes moves in its final session of 2008....

32. Iraqi Parliament speaker resigns

    After the resignation, Parliament immediately approved a resolution to allow British, Australian and other non-American troops to stay in Iraq after the end of the year.

33. Ex-Parliament Speaker Calls Shoe-Thrower as 'Brave'

    The newly resigned Iraqi parliament speaker on Wednesday praised the journalist who threw shoes at President George W. Bush and said the legislature should have supported him.

34. Former Iraqi Parliament Speaker Spreads Blame

    Mahmoud al-Mashadani blamed political infighting for his downfall and criticized the United States, saying it had “handed us a ruined state.”

35. Former Iraqi Parliament speaker spreads blame

    Mahmoud al-Mashadani blamed political infighting for his downfall and criticized the United States, saying it had "handed us a ruined state."

36. Tymoshenko's aide says revised bailout bill will suit government, parliament

37. Shares shed 1 per cent at open

    LOCAL shares down around 1pc as emergency rescue efforts fail to ease panic on world markets.

38. Sri Lanka Marxist party sues against breakaway rebel leader's appointment to parliament

    Oct 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva filed a fundamental rights petition yesterday against appointing ex-rebel leader Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman to the parliament through national list.

39. Sri Lanka government to table the Appropriation Bill tomorrow at parliament for more funds

    Oct 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka government is expecting to present another Appropriation Bill to the parliament tomorrow.

40. Ukrainian president dissolves Parliament, calls election

    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved Parliament on Wednesday and called a snap election, dashing hopes for the revival of a pro-western coalition and throwing this politically volatile former Soviet republic into further turmoil.

41. Post-debate polling favours Obama over McCain

    John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama "that one," Obama mocked McCain's "Straight Talk Express," and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday.

42. Resident's open letter urges Iqaluit council to act on sex assaults

    An Iqaluit man is asking fellow residents to sign an open letter that calls on city hall to show leadership in the wake of two recent sexual assaults in the Nunavut capital.

43. Martin Post Office now closed at night

    Residents of Martin will no longer be able to run to the post office at midnight

44. Jodie Whitaker: 'Venus was the most open performance I will ever give'

    So, what is the actress Jodie Whittaker up to next? "I'd love to say, 'oh, I'm working with Steven Spielberg', but am I hell!" exclaims the young woman with characteristically bluff good humour. "If I were, I'd be walking around in a T-shirt saying, 'by the way, ask me about my next job!'"