A Chadian opposition figure missing for weeks arrived Thursday in Paris, a French Foreign Ministry official said.
A Russian opposition leader accused of hitting a policeman has gone on a hunger strike to protest his detainment, which he believes is politically motivated, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Authorities in Belarus temporarily released an opposition leader from prison Tuesday so he could attend his wife's funeral, his lawyer said, after their initial refusal triggered international pressure.
Amnesty International has accused Chad's government of using a state of emergency imposed after a recent attempted coup to tyrannize members of peaceful opposition groups.
A Georgian court said Friday it had ordered a freeze of the assets of a billionaire businessman who is under investigation for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in Georgia's capital, pressing for a presidential runoff but celebrating an agreement giving the opposition more control over the main state-funded television station.
Tens of thousands of Georgians protested the election victory of U.S.-allied President Mikhail Saakashvili on Sunday, claiming fraud and demanding a recount.
Taiwan's High Court cleared opposition presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou of graft charges Friday, securing a place for the former Taipei mayor in the March presidential race.
An exiled Iranian opposition group on Tuesday contested a U.S. intelligence report that said Tehran halted a nuclear weapons development program in 2003, insisting the bomb-making program resumed the following year.
Invigorated by their first victory over Hugo Chavez, opponents of the Venezuelan president are seeking to transform a movement defined mainly by what it's against into a viable alternative to his socialist agenda.
Police rounded up scores of people demonstrating against President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, dragging protesters toward buses and beating some who tried to escape.
Once they were pillars of Russia's political establishment, members of a pro-business party with a presence in parliament and influence in the halls of the Kremlin.
A nationwide state of emergency imposed last week amid a police crackdown on opposition protests will end Friday under a measure approved overwhelmingly by Georgia's parliament.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule has increased the likelihood that his opponents could join forces against him. A glance at some of Pakistan's most prominent opposition leaders.
Georgia's parliament speaker said the national state of emergency that followed a police crackdown on opposition will be lifted Friday, a pledge made under a strong pressure from the United States.
A U.S. diplomat urged the government of this former Soviet republic Monday to "restore the momentum of democratic reform" by immediately lifting a state of emergency and freeing all television stations to broadcast the news.
President Mikhail Saakashvili knows the power and the danger of television.
Georgia's president said Saturday he would not allow foreign pressure to determine when to end a state of emergency imposed this week, though he assured he would lift the restrictions soon.
Georgian opposition leaders said Friday they would end streets protests against President Mikhail Saakashvili after he called for an early presidential election for January.
— POST-SOVIET BLUES: Peaceful demonstrations in 1989 turned violent, with Soviet troops killing protesters. Shortly before official Soviet breakup in 1991, Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected as first post-Soviet president but was deposed in 1992, prompting years of government infighting. The regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from government control.
Troops armed with hard rubber clubs patrolled the center of the Georgian capital on Thursday to enforce a state of emergency imposed after a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.
U.S.-allied President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency Wednesday in the capital of Georgia, where six days of demonstrations have fueled a worsening crisis.
Malawi's second opposition party suspended its national convention Saturday after 26 supporters died in a road accident on the way to the conference, party officials said.
Russian electoral officials have barred a vocal opposition alliance from participating in December parliamentary elections, a spokeswoman for the group said Wednesday.
Georgia's former defense minister retracted allegations that the president of this former Soviet republic was involved in a murder plot and other corruption, prosecutors said Monday.