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ECP announces final results of Pakistan's General Election 2024

STORY: ECP announces final results of Pakistan's General Election 2024 SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 11, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 11, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:57 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ECP 2. various of the Islamabad streets 3. various of polling stations STORYLINE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday announced the complete results of the country's General Election 2024 held on Feb. 8. According to the election results announced for the National Assembly (NA), or the lower house of the country's parliament, independent candidates got 101 seats, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif got 75 seats and the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians of former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari got 54 seats. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan got 17 seats, the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Pakistan got four seats, the Pakistan Muslim League got three seats, the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party and Balochistan National Party got two seats

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Israel initially greenlights controversial judicial reform despite protest

STORY: Israel initially greenlights controversial judicial reform despite protest DATELINE: Feb. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:54 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the demonstration STORYLINE: Israel's parliament voted on Tuesday to advance Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious plan to overhaul the country's judiciary, despite widespread public opposition. After a stormy debate, the first two bills of the judicial reform passed in a first, non-binding reading. Out of the 120 seats in the parliament, 63 lawmakers voted in favor of the bills, 47 against, and 10 were absent. Members of Netanyahu's new ultra-religious and ultranationalist coalition government celebrated the outcome. "A great night and a great day," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter after the vote. The first bill would alter the composition of the nine-member committee that appoints judges, limiting the influence of legal professionals and giving the government an outright majority. If approved, the law would

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Japan general election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, head of the Japan Restoration Party, is pictured at a Tokyo hotel while appearing on a radio program on the results of the House of Representatives election on Dec. 16, 2012. The Japan Restoration Party won 54 seats in the election, up from 11 before the election, while Ishihara himself was also elected.

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Relatives of sub collision victims meet reporters

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi (L), Miyako Sakashima (C), and Ryosuke Terata -- family members of some of the nine Japanese who went missing following the Feb. 9 collision between the U.S. submarine Greeneville and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii -- meet the press in Honolulu on March 5 after the end of the first day of the U.S. Navy's Court of Inquiry. Relatives of the missing were allocated six of the 54 spectator seats at the inquiry which is looking into the collision.

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Curry-poisoning trial attracts throngs

Thousands of people wait for a lottery for seats to observe the trial at the Wakayama District Court on the morning of May 13 of a woman accused of murdering four people with poisoned curry. Some 5,000 people vied for 45 public gallery seats for the first hearing of the trial of Masumi Hayashi, 37, and her husband Kenji Hayashi, 54.

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ISRAEL-TEL AVIV-ELECTION-YAIR LAPID

(221102) -- TEL AVIV, Nov. 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, also a leader of the centrist Yesh Atid Party, speaks to supporters in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 2, 2022. Exit polls from Israel's parliamentary elections suggested Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc has a good chance of making a comeback after the country's fifth elections since 2019. Prime Minister Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party was projected to gain 22-24 seats and his wider alliance to secure 54 to 55 seats, according to the exit polls. (Tomer Neuberg/JINI via Xinhua)

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ISRAEL-TEL AVIV-ELECTION-YAIR LAPID

(221102) -- TEL AVIV, Nov. 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, also a leader of the centrist Yesh Atid Party, speaks to supporters in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 2, 2022. Exit polls from Israel's parliamentary elections suggested Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc has a good chance of making a comeback after the country's fifth elections since 2019. Prime Minister Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party was projected to gain 22-24 seats and his wider alliance to secure 54 to 55 seats, according to the exit polls. (Tomer Neuberg/JINI via Xinhua)

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General election in Myanmar

A child cheers in front of the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in Yangon on Nov. 9, 2015. Myanmar's election commission said the same day the opposition party has won 49 of the first 54 parliamentary seats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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General election in Myanmar

Supporters for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy shout with pleasure on Nov. 9, 2015, in front of the NLD headquarters in Yangon, while looking up at a large screen showing returns from Myanmar's general election. The country's election commission said the same day the opposition party has won 49 of the first 54 parliamentary seats. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Relatives of sub collision victims meet reporters

HONOLULU, United States - Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi (L), Miyako Sakashima (C), and Ryosuke Terata -- family members of some of the nine Japanese who went missing following the Feb. 9 collision between the U.S. submarine Greeneville and the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii -- meet the press in Honolulu on March 5 after the end of the first day of the U.S. Navy's Court of Inquiry. Relatives of the missing were allocated six of the 54 spectator seats at the inquiry which is looking into the collision.

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Curry-poisoning trial attracts throngs

Thousands of people wait for a lottery for seats to observe the trial at the Wakayama District Court on the morning of May 13 of a woman accused of murdering four people with poisoned curry. Some 5,000 people vied for 45 public gallery seats for the first hearing of the trial of Masumi Hayashi, 37, and her husband Kenji Hayashi, 54.