Cameroon's opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary has claimed victory in the Oct. 12 presidential election and urged President Paul Biya, who has been in power ...
Guinea's opposition has denounced alleged irregularities in a constitutional referendumByMARK BANCHEREAU Associated PressSeptember 24, 2025, 11:29 AMin a constitutional referendum that could allow the leader ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea’s opposition denounced on Wednesday alleged irregularities in a constitutional referendum that could allow the leader of the country’s junta to ...
Turkish authorities have detained 13 people in a corruption investigation involving concerts organized by the Ankara Metropolitan MunicipalityByThe Associated PressSeptember 23, 2025, 2:56 AMtargeting municipalities ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu appeared in a prison courtroom Friday over claims he fraudulently obtained his university diploma, marking the first hearing ...
Authorities in Istanbul have imposed a temporary ban on public gatherings in several central districtsByThe Associated PressSeptember 8, 2025, 4:39 AMIstanbul have imposed a temporary ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho was released from jail on Friday after spending almost three years in pretrial detention ...
A Bolivian judge has ordered the release of a powerful opposition leader, ending over two years of pretrial detention for conservative politician Luis Fernando CamachoByCARLOS ...
Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism partyByISABEL DEBRE Associated ...
Lamenting the state of parliamentary democracy - bills being passed amid protests in the House, debate on revision of electoral rolls in Bihar not allowed ...
Thousands of Ivorians have protested in Abidjan against the exclusion of opposition leaders from the upcoming presidential electionByTOUSSAINT NGOTTA Associated PressAugust 9, 2025, 11:34 AMIvory ...
Brazil’s president has vetoed parts of a controversial congressional bill that sought to loosen the country’s environmental licensing rulesByMAURICIO SAVARESE Associated PressAugust 8, 2025, 4:42 ...
Iran said Sunday it has executed two members of the exiled opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq after convicting them of carrying out attacks on public and civilian ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s pick for New Jersey’s US attorney has nabbed endorsements from top law enforcement leaders nationwide — but still faces roadblocks from ...
Kenya’s opposition leaders have demanded President William Ruto’s resignation after his order for police to shoot looters during protestsByNICHOLAS KOMU Associated Press and EVELYNE MUSAMBI ...
GITHUNGURI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s opposition leaders demanded the president’s resignation over his call for police to shoot those found stealing or burning property during ...
A Tunisian court has sentenced 86-year-old Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the Islamist Ennahdha party, to 14 years in prisonByBOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated PressJuly 8, ...
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has appeared in court in Kigali on subversion chargesByIGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated PressJuly 8, 2025, 11:12 AMRwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire ...
Turkish state-run media says the mayors of two major cities in southern Turkey have been arrested, joining a growing list of opposition figures detained since ...
Turkish authorities have detained a former mayor and over 100 officials in Izmir over allegations of corruptionByThe Associated PressJuly 1, 2025, 8:14 AMCHP-controlled municipalities in ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday denied that there were plans to turn Africa’s largest democracy into a one-party state, pushing ...
Opposition parties have requested a free “vote of conscience” on a motion calling on the Government to stop the Central Bank from facilitating the sale ...
Israel’s opposition has introduced a motion to dissolve parliament and force elections, seeking to seize on unrest within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition over ...
Portugal’s anti-immigration Chega party has notched another political gain for Europe’s far rightByJOSEPH WILSON Associated Press and HELENA ALVES Associated PressMay 28, 2025, 5:57 PManother ...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s anti-immigration Chega party notched another political gain for Europe’s far right on Wednesday after it was assigned the second-most seats ...
Ever since the German Parliament building reopened in Berlin in 1999, its second-largest meeting room has been occupied by what had often been Germany’s second-largest ...
Venezuela’s government acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition had left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for more ...
Five top Venezuelan opposition figures who had been sheltering for 412 days at the Argentine diplomatic residence in the capital, Caracas, have left the country ...
A coalition of political parties and civil society groups in Togo has vowed to step up domestic and international pressure on President Faure Gnassingbe following ...
Singapore’s long-governing People’s Action Party (PAP) appeared set to retain its strong grip on power following the city-state’s general election, but early vote samples suggest ...
Tunisian media say a court has sentenced leading opposition figures to between 13 and 66 years in prisonByThe Associated PressApril 19, 2025, 9:43 AMTunisia has ...
Toronto: Led by Indo-Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, a group of corporate leaders in the country have endorsed the opposition Conservative Party ahead of the election ...
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of the country’s leading progressives, delivered an impromptu speech onstage at the Coachella music festival in California on Saturday ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, widely seen as the frontrunner in a presidential by-election triggered by the removal of ...
One week after the Turkish government arrested the mayor of Istanbul, who is the top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the political opposition on ...
Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decadeByANDREW WILKS Associated PressMarch 26, ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president on Wednesday accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade ...
South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been cleared of his election law violation charges at an appellate courtByHYUNG-JIN KIM Associated PressMarch 26, 2025, 6:49 ...
The head of Turkey’s main opposition party is visiting jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his releaseByANDREW WILKS ...
Several thousand protesters have blocked a major thoroughfare in Hungary's capital, opposing a law that effectively bans LGBTQ+ Pride events and restricts the right to ...
The opposition is expected to disrupt Dáil proceedings on Tuesday as part of a deepening row over speaking time.Five opposition parties met on Monday to ...
The New York Timesreports that Trump's"expansive interpretation of presidential power" is an attempt "to consolidate power over courts, congress and more".In other words, to defang ...
More than a year after Panama’s Supreme Court halted operations at a huge copper mine because its government concession was deemed unconstitutional, there’s a fresh ...
