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The top United Nations humanitarian official in Sudan today welcomed the beginning of direct talks between the Government and one of the main opposition groups, and urged an end to the conflict that has affected more than a million people in South
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With elections looming at the end of this year, escalating violence and political confrontation has left democracy in Bangladesh at a crossroads. In truth, democracy in modern Bangladesh has always been precarious: military takeover, political
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Protesters and riot police clashed in Cairo and the riot-torn city of Port Said as Egypt's political violence stretched into a fifth day on Monday, despite efforts by the Islamist president to contain the crisis by imposing a state of emergency in
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Most ministers in the Parkash Singh Badal-led Punjab Cabinet have been camping in Delhi for a week, highlighting issues like corruption and 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Meanwhile, the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi) has alleged that the Badals were
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Finland underwent a spectacular populist upheaval in 2011, when the True Finns won over nearly one fifth of the vote and went on to become the main opposition party to the current government. The prelude to this was growing disquiet towards Finland's
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The Japanese governing party lawmaker Mieko Nakabayashi is not just worried that her Democratic Party will lose power in the election next month; she fears that a comeback by the rival conservative Liberal Democrats would spell a return to the
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Syria's main opposition party has new leader 9 November 2012 Last updated at 21:43 ET Syria's main opposition group, meeting in Qatar, has chosen the Christian George Sabra as its leader. Mr Sabra, a former Communist, takes up the job at the head of
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The main opposition political party staged a boycott of the run-off poll, and protested the dissolution of the National Elections Commission (NEC), claiming that the Commission had taken side. Partisans of CDC took to the streets vandalizing
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Indonesia says it is circulating among Southeast Asian nations a draft code of conduct for the South China Sea, hoping for progress before a regional summit in November. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has been trying to patch up
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The five men bidding to lead Japan's main opposition party made a last-minute appeal for votes on Tuesday, in the knowledge that whoever wins the poll could soon be prime minister. Lawmakers from the establishment Liberal Democratic Party will cast
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