Politics
10,500 arrests ahead of Bangladesh poll: opposition
Bangladesh police have arrested more than 10,500 opposition activists in a crackdown ahead of elections this week, opposition parties said Tuesday.Clashes erupt as Sudanese march on presidential palace
Police used tear gas and fired in the air Tuesday to disperse thousands of protesters attempting to march on the presidential palace ...Hamas rejects Abbas plan to dissolve Palestinian parliament
Hamas on Sunday denounced Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas\'s plan to dissolve the largely defunct Palestinian parliament that it controls, calling it a ...Thousands protest in Serbia against populist leader Vucic
Thousands of people have rallied in Serbia, the latest protest accusing populist President Aleksandar Vucic of stifling hard-won democratic freedoms and cracking ...Abbas says he will dissolve Palestinian parliament
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Saturday he intended to dissolve the largely defunct Palestinian parliament controlled by his rivals Hamas following a ...Former US president George H.W. Bush dead at 94
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and ...Former Croatian PM convicted of war profiteering
Croatia\'s former premier Ivo Sanader was convicted on Monday of war profiteering, in a re-trial that found him guilty of taking a ...Swedish parliament ousts PM in vote of no-confidence
Sweden\'s centre-right opposition and the far right ousted Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in a vote of no-confidence on Tuesday, as the left ...Anti-graft activists march against Malawi president
Several hundred anti-graft activists took to the streets of Malawi on Friday to protest against alleged corruption in the government of President ...Ethiopia, Eritrea reopen border points for first time in 20 years
The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea re-opened crossing points on their shared border for the first time in 20 years on Tuesday, ...




