The US State Department is sending Tweets to encourage Iranian protesters, who have taken to the streets by the thousands to battle security forces in Tehran and other cities.
The fact that Egyptian protesters drew inspiration from Serbia’s Otpor and international nonviolence guru Gene Sharp is fueling further conspiranoid speculation about an astroturf revolution.
Thousands of Egyptians still occupy Tahrir Square—but the military has been slowly pushing them into one corner of the square, while pledging to oversee a democratic transition.
Thousands of anti-fascists encircled Dresden to block a neo-Nazi “funeral march” commemorating the city’s 1945 bombardment, while fascists marched in Budapest to mark its fall to the Allies.
Japan is preparing to send 100 troops to Yonaguni, a remote island just south of the disputed Senkaku archipelago, where Tokyo accuses Beijing of drilling for natural gas.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's trip last year to the disputed Kuril Islands has sparked both a regional military build-up and a diplomatic war of words with Japan.
Bolivian President Evo Morales retreated from the southern mining city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising food prices and shortages jeered him and set off dynamite.
Several thousand young Yemenis gathered in central Sana’a, calling for President Ali Abdallah Saleh to step down and follow the example of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
Up to 2,000 marched in Algiers despite a ban on demonstrations in the city, and pushed back against police who tried to bar the march with a cordon of troops and armored vehicles.
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A clash between Arabs and Tukrmen left three dead in Kirkuk two days after a car bomb targeted a Kurdish militia in the city, while another car bomb killed Shi’ite pilgrims in Dujail.
Iraq operates secret prisons and routinely tortures prisoners to extract confessions that are used to convict them, Amnesty International says in a new report.
