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.
I received reports from a friend in Iran that polling stations are deserted, unlike what was reported in the Iranian media(!).
NEW DELHI: The government's special economic zone (SEZ) policy came in for sharp criticism on Wednesday when Congress members joined the Left and BJP in Rajya Sabha in highlighting its misuse in certain cases.
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Indian government was forced on the back foot in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday after members from the treasury benches joined those in the opposition in slamming the creation of special economic zones (SEZs) and chairman Mohammad Hamid Ansari agreed to …
Another interesting aspect is that the once sleepy registration office at Nanguneri has become one of the busiest in the district. A minimum of five costly cars could be seen in front of this office anytime of the day.
Estimates show that close to 114,000 farming households (each household on an average comprising five members) and an additional 82,000 farm worker families who are dependent upon these farms for their livelihoods, will be displaced.
The deprived people of Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal and Manipur have declared the final struggle for regaining their ownership rights over land, forest, water and mines which are taken away from them in the name of development.
HYDERABAD : The country needs People's Economic Zones (PEZs) and not Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and a united national struggle is the need of the hour to stop the proposed 800 SEZs in the country, according to human rights activists and anti-SEZ activists.
KAKINADA:Hundreds of women barged into the land of Kakinada Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) after removing the barbed wire fencing and survey stones at Mulapeta village in Uppada Kothapalli mandal on Saturday.
Elections 2008 produced several upsets on Monday. The predominant one was that the electoral system would be rigged and malfunction to the detriment of the opposition parties. But allowing for normal "third world" glitches, the elections have gone well.
Foreign observers, ambassadors and analysts on Monday visited hundreds of polling stations across the country and expressed satisfaction on the polling process.
Shaikh Rasheed Ahmed, a close confidante of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, was trailing in a prestigious seat in Rawalpindi during initial trends as counting of votes was underway in Pakistan General elections.
Opposition supporters are celebrating victory in Pakistan after an election intended to complete the transition from military to civilian rule.
Pakistan's salvation lies in having a genuinely credible election; any other course of action threatens internal stability. Let us hope that relevant authorities realise that it would be extremely difficult to get away with rigging
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan, who is mediating talks between Kenya's political rivals, said Friday they were making progress on a deal to end weeks of postelection bloodshed but no power-sharing agreement had been reached yet.
Melitus Mugabe Were, a freshman member of Parliament, could have been one of the keys to unlocking Kenya's crisis, but he never got the chance.
Police assaulted several supporters of Zimbabwe's political opposition en route to a rally outside Harare city centre on Wednesday.
Russian prosecutors Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into an opposition leader's effort to register as a candidate in the March 2 presidential election, raising doubts about whether the leader would be able run against the Kremlin's favorite choice.
The first piece in the political chess has been more difficult to resolve, the hardline views from the protagonists has not helped in anyway.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's opposition leaders on Friday called for three days of nationwide protests next week and urged foreign governments to impose sanctions over the country's flawed elections last month.
Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party appeared headed to a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, dealing a blow to the government's hardline China policies two months before a presidential poll.
The political mood darkened again in Kenya on Tuesday, with opposition leaders cooling to the idea of negotiations with the government after the president unilaterally made major cabinet appointments, a move that set off riots across the country almost immediately.
Kenya's opposition leader rejected talks with the president on Tuesday, describing an invitation to meet as ''public relations gimmickry'' that would undermine attempts to end the ethnically-charged election standoff that has killed more than 500 people.
Kenya's opposition leader has called off nationwide rallies planned for Tuesday, following disputed elections. Raila Odinga said he hoped international mediation could solve the crisis. He says he was cheated of victory by President Mwai Kibaki.
KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Violence following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto could threaten Pakistan's January 8 parliamentary elections.
Oh my God! Believe it or not, this is what-s happening here in China.