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CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Zimbabwe police raided the offices of opposition party Movement for Democratic Change in the capital city Harare Friday, according to a journalist there. Police, who arrived in several trucks and a bus, took away several people who were "limping and in pa.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 26, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says. Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government. His party won the second.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Voting in Pakistan's parliamentary election went better than expected, but conditions during the campaign period favored the ruling party, European Union monitors said Wednesday. "There was not a level playing field. It was a field that benefited the r.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 4:26am neoform

USA Today -- Turkey's prime minister, a devout Muslim, has said he has no intention of changing the secular, pro-Western orientation that was laid down by national founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923. Now Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won a new mandate.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 14, 2007 @ 11:25am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Erdogan's party was elected to an overwhelming majority in parliament and can appoint whoever it wants to the presidency. If he does decide to run, Erdogan's own popularity and his party's firm control over parliament will mean his opponents will have.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition party has been granted bail, a day before a controversial presidential poll run-off. Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, was held earlier this month on treason charges, which his party says.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- Armed riot police have raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party in Harare and arrested scores of activists. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) spokesman Nelson Chamisa said those arrested had fled political violence. But the pol.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 10, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- People in parts of eastern Sri Lanka are voting in key local elections. They are taking place in areas that were held by the Tamil Tiger rebels for more than a decade, until they were taken by government forces last year. A party of former Tamil Tig.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 5, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling party has said he will challenge President Robert Mugabe in 29 March polls as an independent candidate. "I offer myself as candidate for the office of president," former finance minister Simba Makoni told reporters... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party says thousands of its workers are facing rioting and arson charges after violence following her assassination. Senior party leaders said police had been arresting party members all over Sindh province in recent.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:30am neoform

BBC News -- A suspected suicide attack at a rally of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has left at least 15 people dead, police say. A PPP spokesman has told the BBC that Ms Bhutto was injured. It is not clear how badly. She had just addressed the ral.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Dec 17, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

MSNBC -- One of the most important, he said, was a draft bill to ease curbs implemented against former supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion. Iraqi lawmakers are debating the U.S.-backed draft law that would pave the w.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Dec 14, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- South African President Thabo Mbeki says the acrimony in the African National Congress is the worst he has seen in his 50 years in the party. Mr Mbeki faces a battle for the ANC leadership against the party's deputy leader, Jacob Zuma, at next week's p.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- Iraq's vice president said Friday his Sunni political party will not return to its Cabinet positions unless their demands are met. Tariq al-Hashemi's moderate party is part of a Sunni political alliance, the Accordance Front, which recently pulled five.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 2:16pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The secular military dislikes the Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party and political analysts say the generals are trying to portray it as weak on terrorism. AKP, which denies any Islamist agenda, is widely expected to win re-election in July. Security.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:52pm neoform

BBC News -- Demonstrators have thrown paint and eggs at the UK embassy in Tehran to try to prevent an annual party in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's birthday. They said any Iranian guests who tried to attend the party were dirty traitors willing to sell out their.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 6:11pm neoform

BBC News -- Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party has endorsed President Robert Mugabe as its candidate for the 2008 election. Mr Mugabe, 83, has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980. Correspondents say the move is a major setback for two party facti.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 12:37pm neoform

CNN -- Four representatives of Zimbabwe's main opposition party were arrested this weekend as they tried to leave the country for neighboring South Africa, including one who said he was badly beaten, a spokesman for Movement for Democratic Change told CNN. Ne.. Read More