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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain’s Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

AuGD flags poor oversight of Gov’t-issued credit card at Parliament

The Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) has flagged weaknesses in the oversight of a Government-funded credit card by the ...

German parliament suffers suspected cyberattack during Zelenskiy’s visit, FT reports

Germany’s lower house of parliament suffered a major email outage on Monday in what officials suspect was a cyberattack ...

Archaeologists find artifacts older than Stonehenge beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament: 'Incredibly rare'

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.
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Houses of Parliament (Great Britain) Fast Facts

The meeting place of Great Britain’s bicameral legislature – composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords – is also known as Westminster Palace. – Ground floor – Offices, river front houses ...
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6,000-year-old artifacts and royal dining hall once thought lost found beneath UK Parliament

The upcoming restoration of the famed Palace of Westminster has triggered an archaeology survey, ...
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Austrian lower house passes headscarf ban for under-14s in schools

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a ban on Muslim ...
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The Parliament House of Hungary: A Grandly Gothic Structure

Designed for a bicameral legislature rather than the unicameral one Hungary now has, the Budapest Parliament House was completed not long before World War I drastically reduced the nation’s territory ...