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• n  a legislative assembly in certain countries
• n  a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

• Lebanese parliament members sit near pictures of assassinated deputies as the parliament met for the first time in nine months, September 25, 2007.
• Protesters clash with police in an alley at the back of the parliament building during a demonstration over the handling of the financial crisis in Reykjavik, Iceland Wednesday Jan .
• To foreign eyes, it seems insensitive -- even criminally negligent--of Iraq's parliamentarians to take a four-week vacation while their country struggles with monstrous problems .

• fantan
• sevens

News & Articles

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• Kuwait parliament condemns sectarian rhetoric over Syria
  KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's parliament on Thursday condemned attempts to use the crisis in Syria to stoke sectarian tensions, calling for the government to crack down on "extremist behavior" and rhetoric in the Gulf Arab state. The statement appeared to be a response to an anti-Hezbollah demonstration outside the Lebanese Embassy in Kuwait on Tuesday where a Sunni Muslim cleric gave a fiery ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• European Parliament urges Turkey to avoid violence
  PARIS (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Thursday urged the Turkish government not to use harsh measures against peaceful protesters and appealed to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take a conciliatory stance. Turkey has been rocked for the past two weeks by anti-government demonstrations centered on Istanbul's Taksim Square. Police have frequently used tear gas and water cannon to ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Ethiopian parliament ratifies new Nile sharing agreement opposed by Egypt
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia's parliament has endorsed the Nile River Cooperative Framework Agreement, an accord that replaces colonial-era deals that awarded Egypt and Sudan the majority water rights to the world's longest river.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Gordon Brown in Fresh Business Thinking
  In his resignation speech Mr Brown said;"The reason we have a hung parliament is that no single party and no single leader was able to win the full support of the country......As the leader of my party I must accept that that is a judgment on me."
• Rene Preval in USA Today
  Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed,Preval told The Miami Herald.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in BusinessWeek
  The government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the parliament is being supplantedby the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military unit that's enforced a crackdown on opposition movements since June and should be the target of...