A move to arrest a prominent opposition leader sent thousands of anti-government protesters into the streets of the country's second-largest city Friday, accusing President Hugo Chavez of launching a new attack against his critics. ...more

March 20, 2009

Pakistan's government considered cutting a deal with the opposition Friday to ease a political crisis undermining its shaky one-year rule but stepped up a crackdown on demonstrators converging on the capital for a rally. ...more

March 14, 2009

A few hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory in the Gaza Strip, the hawkish contender to succeed him paid a visit to wounded soldiers and insisted that the enemy had not been defeated. ...more

January 26, 2009

Gaza's deeply entrenched Hamas rulers won't be easily toppled, even by Israel's unprecedented bombings Saturday that killed more than 200 people, most of them men in Hamas uniform. ...more

December 28, 2008

as Chavez has accelerated his drive to install a Cuban-style socialist regime - the opposition has finally found a winning answer: democracy. Last December voters rejected a new constitution that would have greatly increased presidential powers. On Sunday Venezuelans turned out in record numbers for local elections - and chose opposition candidates for five of the six most important elected posts in the country. ...more

November 27, 2008

Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, an important ally of the United States, is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges, Pakistani politicians and Western diplomats said Thursday. ...more

August 15, 2008

Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa." ...more

July 5, 2008

Zimbabwe's one-candidate presidential runoff is already a footnote, with the world looking beyond today's electoral charade to how longtime leader Robert Mugabe can be pushed toward real democracy. ...more

June 27, 2008

President Robert Mugabe's regime struck at his rivals Thursday two weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff, twice detaining his challenger and jailing the No. 2 opposition leader to face treason charges. ...more

June 13, 2008

Just three weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff, Robert Mugabe is giving the opposition little room to campaign - detaining its candidate, banning rallies and attacking diplomats who try to investigate political violence. ...more

June 7, 2008