'Message' Campaign for Egyptians Barred From Ballot
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 10 -- Salah Noman Mubarak did his bit as a candidate for the opposition Muslim Brotherhood movement ahead of Monday's parliamentary elections: He planted big, smacking kisses on beaming constituents. Held earnest policy discussions over glasses of tea. Dropped in at the ma...
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Ukraine's Supreme Court on Thursday prohibited making the results of the nation's disputed presidential election official until it considers an appeal by the opposition, which claims the results were rigged, ...
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CAIRO. The Egyptian opposition on Thursday accused the ruling party of skirting around reforms and ignoring their key demand for constitutional amendments that would bring about a rotation of power.
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Egypt has dismissed as &quot;unacceptable&quot;  U.S. President George W. Bush&#39;s call for the release of jailed  opposition leader Ayman Nour, saying it was an internal issue  that Washington should stay away from.
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Egypt has banned editions of two French   and German newspapers, Le Figaro and the Frankfurter Allgemeine   Zeitung, because of articles deemed insulting to Islam, the   state news agency MENA said on Sunday.
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BEIRUT, Sept. 25 -- Hezbollah and its political allies on Tuesday blocked the election of a new president in Lebanon by boycotting parliament, deepening the fierce power struggle between the U.S.-backed government and the pro-Syrian opposition.
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Belarusian authorities have barred dozens of opposition candidates from running for parliament in next month's elections, a move opposition leaders condemned as part of President Alexander Lukashenko's ...
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Some observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a Europe-wide security and rights forum, were barred from entering some polling stations in the United States, one of them said.
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Egyptian bloggers have come into the spotlight, on the one hand as an important forum for political debate, on the other as the target of government attempts to limit their freedom of expression.
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Lebanon's opposition has dropped a condition for its participation in an upcoming presidential election in parliament, opposition figure Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Friday.
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The Egyptian opposition accused the ruling party of skirting around reforms and ignoring their key demand for constitutional amendments that would bring about a rotation of power.
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Pakistan's Election Commission calls on political parties in forthcoming elections to run campaigns free of rancour.
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Egypt has refused to allow images of its Pyramids to be used on a Portuguese postal stamp featuring sites in a competition to name the new seven wonders of the world, the state-run news agency said on Sunday.
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The Egyptian government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood's largest annual social gathering for the first time in 20 years, part of a concerted crackdown against the country's opposition, the group's leadership said Sunday.
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Belarusian authorities have barred dozens of opposition candidates from running for parliament in next month's elections, a move opposition leaders condemned as part of President Alexander Lukashenko's relentless crackdown on dissent.
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Egypt has dismissed as "unacceptable" U.S. President George W. Bush's call for the release of jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour, saying it was an internal issue that Washington should stay away from.
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Morocco counted votes on Saturday after a record low turnout in parliamentary elections, with Islamists saying they expected to boost their representation thanks to a popular anti-corruption message.