democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honor of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years next month, British officials said on Saturday.
The Nobel peace laureate has (...)
democracy activist pleaded with Hillary Clinton on Sunday to support Syrian activists, telling the US secretary of state of the violence in her home city of Homs.
“I told Secretary Clinton that the regime is continuing to shell Homs with the aim of (...)
Gaddafi fighters may resort to hit-and-run guerilla attacks against Libyan politicians, foreign workers and oil installations in the remote southwestern Fezzan district if they are driven from their last bastions, risk consultants say.
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Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to create a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed (...)
democracy advocates hope the Bangladesh military will fade from politics after this month's election, but that may only happen when and if the new government proves more stable and less corrupt than its predecessors.
Army generals ruling with iron (...)
government supporters point at posters of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad(R) in front of pictures of assassinated Lebanese politicians and journalists (L) at the grave of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in central Beirut Saturday. Pro-government (...)
