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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the politics desk.
A Belfast High Court ruling has overturned the latest restriction on an Orange Order march through Garvaghy Road, reopening a politically sensitive dispute ahead of next year’s marching season.
Britain plans to declassify information about UK-made Storm Shadow components as part of an effort to help Ukraine develop long-range missile production.
Reform UK says it will propose giving UK-born workers and young married couples with children priority for social housing, placing some British citizens born overseas lower on waiting lists.
Proposals expected in the week of August 24 would let England’s devolved mayors intervene in major planning decisions and direct councils to approve or reject qualifying projects.
Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Conference closed in Addis Ababa on August 22, with commission leaders presenting the process as a new platform for addressing political and historical differences through consultation.
Oromia representatives’ objection to a proposal on Addis Ababa’s constitutional status delayed approval of Ethiopia’s National Dialogue recommendations, prompting a new committee review.
California state senator Aisha Wahab won the August 18 special election in the state’s 14th congressional district, defeating Melissa Hernandez to complete the term of former US representative Eric Swalwell.
Disney-owned ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission on August 18, challenging pressure for its stations to enter early licence-renewal proceedings.
