Assailants attacked a natural gas production plant in southern Nigeria on Saturday, but the military said its forces repelled the onslaught and killed three gunmen.
Gunmen attacked a ship carrying diesel fuel across Nigeria's restive southern region Wednesday, kidnapping a foreign sailor and inflicting heavy damage on the vessel, officials said.
One person was killed when assailants kidnapped the crew of an oil-industry vessel in Nigeria's restive southern oil region, a security official said Sunday.
An Eni SpA official says an explosion that damaged one of its pipelines in Nigeria's restive south has trimmed the country's daily oil output by 12,000 barrels.
Anti-government protesters Wednesday vowed to renew demonstrations that have plagued Thailand over the past year after taking a break for the New Year holidays.
Suspected Tuareg rebels attacked an army outpost in the country's remote north early Saturday, setting off a battle in which 20 people were killed, the Ministry of Defense said.
A private security official says a Filipino ship captain was killed and two Russians were kidnapped in attacks in Nigeria's troubled oil-producing region.
The unrest that has gripped Greece is spilling over into the rest of Europe, raising concerns the clashes could be a trigger for opponents of globalization, disaffected youth and others outraged by the continent's economic turmoil and soaring unemployment.
Pirates attacked an oil-services vessel before dawn Thursday off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped two foreign workers, a private security official said.
Confident it can form a government, Thailand's opposition Democrat Party called Monday for Parliament to vote on a new prime minister, while the ruling coalition said the army was interfering to help its rivals take power.
Escalating aggression by extremist Israeli youths holed up in a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron approached the boiling point Wednesday as Israel's government vowed to evict them.
Thailand's long-running political conflict reached another watershed Tuesday, as a court forced the prime minister from office. The anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy declared victory following the ruling and said it would end its occupation of the capital's two airports.
The United States says it is "deeply concerned" about thousands of protesters who have occupied Thailand's airports in an anti-government campaign that marks the country's worst political crisis in decades.
Flights in and out of Bangkok resumed Wednesday after anti-government protests that paralyzed the capital's international airport for more than a week ended with the peaceful ouster of the prime minister.
Thailand's influential army commander has told the government it should call a new election to end the country's political crisis.
Bangkok's international airport has suspended departing flights because anti-government demonstrators have swarmed the terminal.
A call by Thailand's powerful army commander to end the country's deepening political crisis was rebuffed Wednesday, as the prime minister rejected his suggestion to step down, and protesters refused to end their occupation of the country's main airport.
The military said it killed eight militants as it repulsed an attack Monday at an oil-industry installation in lawless southern Nigeria, while the main militant group said it released a Ukrainian hostage and three Nigerian captives.
A bomb blast seriously injured a Thai anti-government protester Saturday inside the government compound that an opposition movement has occupied for months, a spokesman for the group said.
A military spokesman says unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese construction worker in Nigeria's restive southern oil region.
Thailand's exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told tens of thousands of supporters in his homeland Saturday that he cannot return as long as he has a jail sentence hanging over him.
Thailand's prime minister was forced to flee one of his own government ministries Wednesday as protesters demanding his resignation taunted him, tossing sandals and plastic bottles at his entourage.
Thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the streets of Bangkok on Monday, calling the prime minister a "murderer" and demanding he resign over the violent quashing of a previous rally.
Protesters have occupied Thailand's seat of government for six weeks, demanding the resignation of governments they say are proxies for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Military leaders ousted Thaksin in a 2006 coup, accusing him of corruption. A look at recent events:
Thousands of supporters of Thailand's ruling coalition gathered Saturday on the outskirts of Bangkok in a show of strength, two days ahead of a planned major protest by a group hoping to topple the elected government.
In the final days before a crucial referendum that will determine whether President Hugo Chávez can run for re-election indefinitely, campaigning has taken on a noticeable, and sometimes ugly, edge.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, has declared the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, all but defeated.
High unemployment in China isn't new, this time it's only cyclical. In the 90's many state-owned enterprises were shut down and millions were left jobless. During that period there were no challenges to the Party's rule.
In a state of terror, the most terrorized is the state.
In light of the continued and escalating unrest in Georgia, Pravda has released this interesting information recently about Saakashvili. A quote from the article:
The violent unrest that followed the shooting of a 15-year-old boy has driven Greece to the brink of a political crisis.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is on the verge of retirement, said Karma Cheophel, speaker of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile in Dharamsala, seat of Tibetan government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama said Saturday he has given up on efforts to convince China to allow greater autonomy f …
Police prepare for unrest By Alexander Bolton Posted: 10/21/08 07:58 PM [ET] Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.
Not happening in China: land reform. This is a contentious conflict where central and local power have opposing interests. Local governments need things to stay the way they are, Beijing faces mounted pressures to change due to increasing unrest connected to this.
This past week we have seen campaign events involving John McCain and/or Sarah Palin take a turn for the decidedly ugly.
A US judge has "reluctantly" agreed to a US government request to delay appeals brought by some 250 Guantanamo detainees challenging the legality of their detention.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his PML-N party is pulling out of the country's multi-party governing coalition. More Articles
Musharraff leaves, but what will follow.
My cousin is the only woman I know with more guts to have survived the loss of her sons, one at 5 years old a decade ago and then her oldest Manny, 19 last year in Iraq! God, how does she do it??? AND like our family is, she now heads a memorial foundation for mothers like her in …
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the towering house-of-cards called the American capitalist economic system, which currently is in the throes of one economic/financial crisis, could experience an even more devastating economic/financial crisis for any of several reasons.
Many people are wondering how it could have come to this. Not least South Korea's President, Lee Myung-bak, who, just 100 days into office, has managed to pull off a classic reverse Midas touch.
It is the first time troops are being ordered out onto the streets to quell unrest since the end of apartheid.
Zimbabwean police have imposed an indefinite ban on political rallies in what the opposition Movement for Democratic Change likened to an attempt by Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF to declare a "state of emergency" so the March 29 election results — still officially undisclosed — cou …
Hundreds of people turned out in Rome Wednesday to demonstrate in support of the people of Tibet following last week's unrest and a crackdown by the Chinese authorities. Also Wednesday, Pope Benedict appealed reports for VOA from Rome.
In a dramatic U-turn, Pakistan government has "apologised" for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack.
Diplomat killed returning from New Years Party
ALONG THE LARKANA-KARACHI HIGHWAY - Three days after Benazir Bhutto's killing, driving through her home province is a perilous experience. Charred vehicles, felled trees and rocks litter the highway, and nervous travelers paste her portrait to their cars to appease prowling mobs.
Head Injury killed Bhutto, not bullet..she hit her head on..
riots kill 9 in unrest following assassination