Yemeni's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh is calling on his countrymen to take part in presidential elections on Tuesday.
There are some major concerns regarding the rescue package and the efficacy of the Athens government in imposing much-needed austerity.
The auto industry is the engine of the Michigan economy, but Mitt Romney's opposition to the ultimately successful government rescue of General Motors and Chrysler won't be a major concern of Republican voters in the state's Feb. 28 primary, observers say.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will have no problem getting election to his third term as president, a state polling agency determined on Monday.
Keen to boost his notoriously bullish image, Putin said in a newspaper article that Russia would spend 23 trillion roubles ($770 billion) over a decade to modernize the former superpower's armed forces, warning of the need to protect the country from new regional and local wars sparked by foreign powers.
Egypt's military rulers have failed to set a date for the country's presidential elections. It's been over a year since President Hosni Mubarak resigned, but Egyptians have little information on when they will get to participate in the first free presidential vote in decades.
The People's Daily also warned that in the event of a civil war in Syria, foreign military intervention will likely be required.
The National League for Democracy (NLD), which boycotted the 2010 election, said several attempts to hold campaign rallies had been blocked and accused the country's biggest party of making promises that were tantamount to vote-buying.
The crowd also assailed the leaders of Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s civilian governments.
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On the fifth day of violent protests ahead of Senegalese capital Dakar's controversial presidential poll, two young men have already lost their lives, indicating a bad turn of events and intensifying demonstrations in an otherwise peaceful city. Protesters demanded on Sunday that Senegal's 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade step down, and were on the streets of the heart of the capital, throwing stones at police and erecting barricades.
After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as president.
Police and regime militia patrols fanned out in Damascus' Mezze district Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on the capital, opposition activists said.
Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said.
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Ethnic Latvians think the vote represents an effort to compromise the nation’s independence from its former overlords, the Russians.
Maryland's House of Delegates on Friday approved by a razor-thin margin a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry, putting it on the road to joining six other states where gay and lesbian nuptials are legal. The Maryland vote came shortly after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a similar measure.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul Friday criticized the criminalization of Marijuana in Washington state. He was speaking at a campaign event in the state.
While threats that could pull down global economy are never far away, recent data depict a brightening outlook according to IHS, a global business and economic information provider.
Congress passed legislation on Friday that extends a tax cut for 160 million workers through December. The new law continues long-term jobless benefits, handing President Barack Obama a major victory in a year in which his re-election is at stake.
Of nearly 200,000 cameras ordered to monitor upcoming Russian elections, the first to go online and begin broadcasting to the www.webvybory2012.ru Web site were found to have been DDoS attacked, Reuters news agency reported. Hackers upset with December elections they consider to have been fraudulent may be responsible. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Siberian town of Novosibirsk to inspect election monitoring cameras he ordered installed at over 90,000 polling stations ahead of...
Zimbabwe reacted strongly to the European Union's decision to renew sanctions on President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday. Despite the lift on travel bans and asset freezes on 51 people connected to Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, Zimbabwean leadership is still furious that the illegal sanctions are still in place .
