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Iran clamped down Tuesday on independent media in an attempt to control images of election protests, but pictures and videos leaked out anyway — showing how difficult it is to shut off the flow of information in the Internet age. Complete Story...
An explosive device killed a conservative politician as he drove through northern Albania on Thursday, 10 days ahead of the country's parliamentary election, police said.
International human rights organizations said Wednesday that many prominent activists and politicians have been arrested in Iran in response to protests over the country's disputed presidential election.
The State Department is disputing an allegation by the Iranian government that the United States is meddling excessively in its internal affairs.
Canada's prime minister reached a deal Wednesday with one of three opposition parties allowing him to avoid early elections.
U.S. intelligence analysts assessing the situation in Iran believe that while there is potential for a wider upheaval, the nation is not on the brink of revolution, according to a senior U.S. official with access to the reports.
Oversize posters of President Hamid Karzai blanketed the Afghan capital Tuesday as the two-month presidential campaign began. While Afghans on the street openly complained about Karzai's rule, a new survey showed why he is likely to win a second term: His opponents have almost no support.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his re-election was "real and free" and cannot be questioned — despite accusations of mass voter fraud.
The U.S. and Canada challenged Iran's claims that hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election, but much of the rest of the world remained silent Saturday despite claims of fraud and scenes of clashes on the streets of Tehran.
Tens of thousands of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran's disputed election.
While thousands protest in Iran over the disputed presidential election, a small minority of Iranian expatriates believes it has a solution for what troubles their homeland — a democratically elected government and a return of a Shah.
The Obama administration is cautiously watching Iran's presidential election this week for signs that the Islamic Republic may be willing to engage with United States, but U.S. officials have meager expectations for change.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - On a recent Saturday afternoon, hate was on the march in St. Louis. About 85 members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group, gathered in the shadow of the famed Gateway Arch for a march and rally celebrating its 35th anniversary.
A powerful former Iranian president urged the country's top leader Tuesday to take "serious action" against hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for accusing current and former top government officials of corruption in a televised election debate.
President Barack Obama is congratulating the Lebanese people for a peaceful national election held with "courage" and a "commitment to democracy."
Iran's state news agency reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election Friday, but his main reformist challenger also confidently claimed victory at a news conference moments earlier. The rival claims came even before the close of polls, which authorities permitted to stay open an extra six hours, until midnight (1930 GMT, 3:30 p.m. EDT), to allow long lines of voters to cast ballots. Official results were not expected until Saturday.
A seductive woman looks out from the billboards that line Beirut's highways proclaiming, "Be Beautiful and Vote," one political party's appeal to women in this beauty-obsessed nation's upcoming parliamentary elections.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, vulnerable in home-state polls but without a big-name opponent so far, takes the stage Tuesday with President Barack Obama at a Las Vegas-style fundraiser billed as "The Good Fight."
German President Horst Koehler won a second five-year term Saturday, a victory that gave a symbolic boost to Chancellor Angela Merkel's hopes of forming a center-right government after a national election this September.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sworn in for a second term Friday, even as talks broke down between his party and a key coalition partner.
Mongolia's opposition Democrats claimed victory Monday in presidential elections after pledging to crack down on graft and better distribute the country's mining wealth.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday he's heard "loud and clear" a voter message to take care of deficits through budget cuts alone, without passing additional costs along to them.
Tehran braces for fresh opposition protestsIran braced for another day of massive protests Thursday by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in open defiance of the country's supreme leader.
Iran election turnouts exceeded 100% in 30 towns, website reportsTurnouts of more than 100% were recorded in at least 30 Iranian towns in last week's disputed presidential election, opposition sources have claimed.
Panel of Clerics Offers Talks With Iranian Opposition Days after it was urged to investigate the outcome of last week's disputed presidential election, Iran's authoritative Guardian Council said on Thursday that it had invited the three candidates challenging the official results to a meeting to discuss their grievances, state m …
Iran's Twitter Revolution? Not yet. Just plain old text, phone calls, and door knocking gets the word outMedia across the globe have been focusing on a "Twitter Revolution" in Iran as hundreds of thousands of street protestors purportedly mobilized their demonstrations using the microblogging service.
Mir Hussein Moussavi; The face of Iran's opposition - Insider Turned Agitator TEHRAN — His followers have begun calling him "the Gandhi of Iran." His image is carried aloft in the vast opposition demonstrations that have shaken Iran in recent days, his name chanted in rhyming verses that invoke Islam's most sacred martyrs.
Iran's Presidential Election is over except for protest., Tehran the capitol has had the largest street protests since the 1979 Revolution. Supporters of challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi are still upset at the loss and claim voter fraud and they are still protesting.
John Kerry: Lets Be Silent Concerning Iran.HE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama to denounce the voting as a sham and insert oursel …
Would Iran be any different under new management?So why is the international community yet to seize on this opportunity? One reason could be that Western leaders think that any so-called "green revolution" would make no difference in the foreign-policy challenges that Iran, in its current shape and form, presents them, and as a …
Iran's Internet battle hits new heights - msnbc.comAs international media outlets are being pushed off the streets of Tehran, the burden of reporting on Iran's post-election crisis is falling increasingly on online channels ranging from blogs and video sites to Twitter and Facebook.
President George W. Bush was fond of saying that all people want democracy, and in a very general sense he was probably right. But his misadventures prove that wanting democracy isn't enough. People have to be willing to fight for it.
Hamas, Syria hail Ahmadinejad victory in Iran election "Syria and the Islamist group Hamas hailed the victory on Saturday of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's presidential election.
Why American Neo-Cons Wanted Ahmadinejad to winThe only people happier than the Iranian elites over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparently stolen election win Friday, were the neoconservatives and other hawks eager to block any efforts by the Obama administration to moderate U.S.
Indian Elections were riggedFor example, International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Journal (May 2009, p 23) has published an article by two professors of computer science, titled: Trustworthy Voting.
Who is Mir Hossein Mousavi?The politics of the man behind Iran's pro-democracy uprising
I like most Americans was disappointed to see the transpirations in Iran's election. I also believe, again like most Americans, that the election wasn't conducted fairly. I also realize that the relations between Iran and the U.S.
WARNING: Hero Worshiping Photos. Zillions Of Them. - PHOTOS Tehran, June 13. (Very pic heavy)collection of pictures taken during rallies in theran, June 13 2009
Iranians Defy Media Restrictions Iranians are still managing to send photos, mobile 'phone video and emails to the BBC's interactive sites, despite the Iranian government's attempts to close down all media communication beyond its control.
Will Iran's Protests SucceedOn the face of it, the disturbances currently shaking Tehran in the wake of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election look very similar to the street clashes that erupted there in July 1999 and June 2003. How do these new protests compare with the old?
Are we headed in the right direction, have we arrived? What do you like or not like about our direction?
Obama: Stooge for the oppressive Iranian regimeNote that this article is published by Press TV which is state-controlled media run by the same hardline Mullahs who crush democracy, press freedoms, and human rights in Iran. Obama opposed to meddling in Iran's affairs
Iran: Filmmakers claim Mousavi won electionTwo Iranian filmmakers on Tuesday presented a document to Green Party MPs in the European parliament claiming to show that defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had received over 19 million votes in the weekend election.
The "Bomb Iran" contingent's newfound concern for The Iranian PeopleI'm going to leave the debate about whether Iran's election was "stolen" and the domestic implications within Iran to people who actually know what they're talking about (which is a very small subset of the class purporting to possess such knowledge).
Election at a Draw, Arizona Town Cuts a Deck CAVE CREEK, Ariz. — Arizona is a modern place, among the fastest-growing states and home to Phoenix, the nation's fifth-largest city with gleaming office towers and a just-opened light rail system.
CNN, FOX News Turn Blind Eye to Uprising in IranPart of the reason for the CNN and FOX black-out on the Iranian Elections is explained by the fact that a good chunk of AOL Time Warner (CNN) and NewsCorp (FOX News) is owned by Prince Alwaleed Ibn Talal the Saudi billionaire.
Public Defiance Grows as Iran's Leader Sets Vote Review - NYTimes.comTEHRAN — Hundreds of thousands of people marched in silence through central Tehran on Monday to protest Iran's disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance from a broad cross section of society, even as the nation's supreme leader called for a formal …
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