Former Timor PM barred from leaving capital
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Former East Timor Prime Minister Mari  Alkatiri is suspected of arming civilians during the recent  violence in Asia's newest nation and cannot leave Dili, the  country's attorney general said on Thursday.
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East Timor&#039;s former prime minister Mari Alkatiri has urged thousands of supporters to take their fight to the ballot box amid hopes of an end to the political crisis paralysing the country.
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KARACHI - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto abruptly canceled plans to travel abroad yesterday, saying she had heard rumors the government could impose a state of emergency during her absence. The opposition leader, who was targeted by suicide bombers when she returned home on Oct. 18 following eight years in exile, had been preparing to go to Dubai to ...
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Former deputy leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed yesterday that Malaysia&#39;s highest court bent to government pressure in a ruling that bars his return to elected office before 2008, despite his recent release from prison.
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The party of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday ruled out reconciliation with Pakistan's embattled military leader, a day after a court said he can return home before upcoming elections.
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East Timor's former interior minister is jailed for more than seven years for fuelling last year's unrest.
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Congo's opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba will not be returning from Portugal due to safety concerns, aides say.
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Bank accounts belonging to Thailand ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra have been frozen, the government says.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made  a lightning visit to East Timor's locked-down capital Dili on  Friday in a show of strength after a double assassination  attempt on the fledgling nation's leadership.
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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra will be arrested if he returns to the country, officials warn.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - The only Indonesian official to be punished for violence that killed up to 2,000 East Timorese in 1999 has been released from jail, following a court decision that overturned his conviction, officials said.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party expels an ex-minister  who is to challenge Robert Mugabe to the presidency in March.
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Australia's foreign minister has expressed concern over the breakout from an East Timor prison of a rebel militia leader and more than 50 others and announced he would travel to Dili at the weekend.
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Pakistan's ex-PM forced on to flight to Saudi Arabia.
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Drum-beating supporters of presidential election winner Viktor Yushchenko blocked his defiant opponent from entering his prime ministerâs office as Ukraineâs bitter political tensions continued.
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East Timor's prime minister met Tuesday with hundreds of soldiers whose dismissal earlier this year sparked fierce gunbattles in the capital, and the eventual installation of a new government.
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Exiled former Pakistani PM says unrest over Nawaz Sharif's deportation must not be used to defer forthcoming elections.