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Turkish court sentences former Kurdish mayor to 16 years for ‘inciting violence’
A Turkish court sentenced a former mayor of a Kurdish city and opposition member to 16 years in jail for being a member of terrorist group, “abusing ... Middle East -
Venezuela opposition marches to congress in showdown with President Maduro
Venezuela’s opposition on Tuesday marched toward downtown Caracas with the aim of regaining control of the national congress, which was snatched ... World News -
Venezuela’s Maduro says arrest of Juan Guaido ‘will come’
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday that authorities haven’t detained opposition leader Juan Guaido because the courts haven’t ... World News -
Lebanon’s ex-PM Hariri blames political rivals for crisis
Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri, in his first major address as an opposition figure after the formation of a new cabinet, charged his ... Middle East -
Iran says ‘counter-revolutionary’ figure faces death sentence
An Iranian opposition figure who had been living in exile before being arrested faces the death sentence, the opening day of his trial heard on Monday ... Middle East -
Turkish prosecutors demand life sentence for prominent businessman
Turkish prosecutors are seeking an aggravated life sentence for prominent businessman Osman Kavala accused of orchestrating 2013 anti-government ... Middle East -
Iran arrests son of a Green movement opposition leader: Report
The son of a leader of Iran’s opposition Green movement was arrested on Monday, according to website Sahamnews.Hossein Karoubi was arrested two ... Middle East -
Iran’s Green Movement opposition calls on Iran Supreme Leader to step down
A leader of Iran’s opposition Green Movement, Mehdi Karroubi, called on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the top authority in the Islamic Republic, ... Middle East -
Thai opposition leader says protest ‘just the beginning’
Thai opposition party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit told a protest on Saturday that it was “just the beginning” as thousands of ... World News -
Campaigning starts in protest-hit Algeria for presidential vote
Campaigning for Algeria’s presidential election next month started Sunday in a country mired by protests demanding a sweeping overhaul of a ... North Africa -
Senegal president pardons Khalifa Sall, ex-mayor of Dakar
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has pardoned former Dakar mayor and political rival Khalifa Sall, who had been sentenced to prison for fraudulent ... World News -
Hundreds of Russians rally to demand free elections
Hundreds of people took to the streets of central Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections to the Russian capital’s city legislature, defying ... World News -
Russian opposition politician Navalny released from jail
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was released on Friday after 30 days in prison, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. Navalny, a ... World News -
Syrian troops close to western outskirts of opposition-held town
Syrian state media and an opposition war monitor say government forces have gained more ground in the country’s northwest, almost reaching the ... Middle East -
Sudan opposition coalition appoints five civilian members of sovereign council
Sudan’s opposition coalition on Sunday named the five people it has chosen as civilian members of the country’s sovereign council to be ... Middle East -
Sudan military council, protest leaders sign landmark transition deal
Sudan’s protest leaders formally signed a deal with the Transitional Military Council in Khartoum on Saturday, paving the way for a transition ... Middle East -
Sudan opposition to nominate economist Abdalla Hamdok for prime minister
Sudan’s main opposition alliance will nominate economist Abdalla Hamdok to serve as prime minister in the country’s transitional ... Middle East -
Syria regime forces inch closer to key extremist-held town: Monitor
Syrian regime forces captured a string of opposition-held villages in northwest Syria on Thursday, inching closer to a key extremist-run town in the ... Middle East -
Russian police detain prominent opposition activist before protest
Russian police on Saturday detained prominent opposition activist Lyubov Sobol ahead of a planned protest in Moscow to demand free elections. ... World News -
Moscow police use force to end election protest, arrest 600
Police cracked down hard on an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow for a second weekend in a row, detaining about 600 people protesting the exclusion ... World News -
Sudan military council, opposition sign political agreement
The first phase of a political agreement was signed by Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change opposition ... Middle East -
Turkey orders arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected Gulen links
Turkey has ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected links to the network accused by Ankara of orchestrating an attempted coup in ... Middle East -
Syrian rebel town buries goalkeeper who became ‘singer of the revolution’
Thousands of people flocked to the funeral on Sunday of a Syrian football star turned fighter who became an icon of the revolt against President ... Features -
Nigerian court overturns ban on opposition TV, radio stations
A Nigerian radio and television station owned by an opposition politician resumed broadcasting Saturday after a court order temporarily overturned a ... Television & Radio -
Sudanese opposition rejects military’s schedule for elections
Sudan’s opposition rejected on Tuesday a plan by military authorities to hold elections within nine months, a prominent opposition figure said, ... Middle East -
Kazakhstan detains three women protesters for extremism ahead of vote
Three women who took part in an anti-government protest are under house arrest on suspicion of belonging to an extremist organization, police said ... World News -
EU denounces Venezuela’s arrest of Guaido deputy
The European Union on Thursday denounced Venezuela’s arrest of opposition leader Juan Guaido’s deputy as “another flagrant ... World News -
UN urges Venezuela to clarify fate of detained opposition lawmaker
The UN human rights office called on Venezuela’s government of Nicolas Maduro on Friday to disclose the whereabouts of opposition lawmaker ... World News -
Sudan’s military, opposition discuss powers of joint council, say sources
Sudan’s military rulers and an opposition alliance met on Monday to discuss the powers of a joint military-civilian council to steer the ... Middle East -
White House and the challenges of uniting Iranian opposition
As expected, the Iranian intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, warned on 25 December, 2018, that efforts and consultations are intensifying among the ... Middle East