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Independent senator Lidia Thorpe is considering abstaining from voting on legislation to enable the Voice referendum in the Senate but has ruled out supporting the No campaign.

Every six years or so, St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday during Lent. That poses a problem for practical Catholics. So can you eat Corned beef? We have the answer.

India, China and Russia abstained in the United Nations Security Council on a draft resolution that demanded an immediate end to violence and the release of all arbitrarily detained prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi and ex-president Win Myint

The resolution comes days after Russia vetoed a similar proposal in Security Council, in which India had abstained.

America’s ambassador to the UN urged countries to send a message that seizing a neighbour’s land won’t be tolerated

The lawyers at Delhis District Court on Wednesday abstained from work over the arrest of an advocate for allegedly having a fake LLB degree

All 157 lawmakers of ruling Nea Dimokratia party abstain.

After the Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee declared that the party will abstain from voting in the upcoming Vice Presidential polls, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said the opposition should work unitedly.

As in a series of recent votes on the Russia-Ukraine war, India abstained yet again on the US-sponsored vote to expel Russia from the UNHRC, making it the 10th such vote in the series of abstentions, writes Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty.

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Cambodia is one of 58 countries which abstained from an April 7 vote to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, while 93 countries voted in favour, and 24 against, the suspension of Russia from the council.