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Defeated Kenyan leader prepares vote challenge
Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)
Kenya's outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, defeated in last week's presidential polls by Uhuru Kenyatta, was preparing his Supreme Court appeal alleging frau...
Debate flares on 'Twitter revolutions,' Arab Spring
Mar 10, 2013 (AFP)
How important were Twitter, Facebook and other social media in toppling regimes in the Arab Spring uprisings? Amid a fierce debate in academic circles, an upcom...
Venezuela reforms at risk from transition
Mar 07, 2013 (UPI)
Venezuela's economic reforms program is at risk of becoming more lopsided than it is at present as national attention rivets on mourning departed President Hugo...
Bangladesh deploys troops as protest toll hits 76
Mar 03, 2013 (AFP)
Bangladesh deployed troops in part of the country after fresh clashes erupted Sunday, taking the death toll to 76 in weeks of violence over the conviction of Is...
Radio activists channel anger in Malaysian Borneo
Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)
It's 6 p.m. in rural Borneo and Iban tribesman Luang Anak Entiyang springs up to fetch his short-wave radio, tuning in the day's broadcast of Radio Free Sarawak...
Rights group claims Myanmar has discrimination policy
Feb 26, 2013 (UPI)
A human rights group said "leaked documents" show Myanmar's government has an official policy of discrimination against Muslim Rohingya, including restricting f...
Walker's World: The Italian mess
Feb 25, 2013 (UPI)
There is a significant chance that by this time next week the world could be back in the throes of a full-blooded financial crisis. The Italian election result ...
South Korea swears in first female president
Feb 25, 2013 (AFP)
Park Geun-Hye became South Korea's first female president Monday, vowing zero tolerance with North Korean provocation and demanding Pyongyang "abandon its nucle...
Thai protesters want protection after attack that killed child
Feb 24, 2013 (UPI)
Anti-government protesters in Thailand are demanding greater protection after gunmen opened fire on a rally, killing a 5-year-old girl and wounding 30 people. M...
Experts urge Arab nations to train forces in crowd control
Feb 22, 2013 (AFP)
Defence experts who say many lives could have been saved during Arab uprisings if states used proper crowd control measures sought to tap into a growing market ...
Comedian poised as Italian poll kingmaker
Feb 22, 2013 (UPI)
Comedian Beppe Grillo is poised to emerge as a potential kingmaker in Italy's deeply fraught elections as polls open Sunday for two days of voting, with outcome...
Political crisis delaying Moldova EU hopes
Feb 21, 2013 (UPI)
Moldova's progress toward an association agreement with the European Union could be delayed due to a continuing political crisis in Chisinau, diplomats say. Mol...
Argentina, Brazil said to fret over Venezuela spillover
Feb 21, 2013 (UPI)
An Arab Spring-like contagion of discontent and protest sweeping through Venezuela is worrying leaders in Argentina and Brazil for its potential spillover, anal...
Brazil forces head south to quell violence
Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)
Elite federal police forces have been deployed in strife-torn Santa Catarina in southern Brazil to contain violence ordered by drug lords from their prison cell...
Lebanon finally gets a government -- but the killing goes on
Feb 19, 2013 (UPI)
Two suicide bombers killed five people in a Hezbollah-controlled district of Beirut Wednesday, graphically underlining how Lebanon, though it now has a governme...
Austerity-hit Italians prepare for general election
Feb 17, 2013 (AFP)
Austerity-hit Italians take to the polls next week with centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani leading the fray against Silvio Berlusconi in a vote that could pr...
Famed US hacker helps Ecuador secure its vote
Feb 16, 2013 (AFP)
Kevin Mitnick, who once gained notoriety as America's most wanted computer hacker, now heads a thriving Internet consultancy tasked with helping keep Sunday's p...
Outside View: Viktor Yanukovych: From partner to violent kleptocrat
Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)
Over the course of four years the international image of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has evolved from partner to violent kleptocrat. U.S. and EU polic...
Thai foreign minister seeks condemnation of protesters
Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)
Thailand's foreign minister said the international community should support his country by condemning anti-government protesters whose leaders urged a boycott o...
'Too much meanness' in US political life: Panetta
Feb 13, 2013 (AFP)
Looking back at a long political career, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday lamented an increasingly bitter atmosphere in Washington, saying there was ...
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