By: The Christian Science Monitor, October 28, 2005
At issue is whether the party should participate in elections unlikely to be fair. Most observers reached by phone in Zimbabwe agree, however, that the MDC's public mudslinging is more damaging than either a boycott or participation."
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By: BBC News, October 31, 2005
Soldier beating a suspected opposition supporter
The authorities said the opposition should wait for official results
The security forces on Tanzania's Zanzibar islands have broken up a crowd of opposition supporters claiming victory in Sunday's poll. At least five people were arrested as teargas and water cannon were fired at people singing and dancing after Muslim prayers in the capital, Zanzibar town. Official results could be released on Monday after overnight counting. There were sporadic clashes on election day but the extreme violence of previous polls has so far been absent.
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By: Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2005
The issue may come to a head today in local elections. Tanzania, formed in 1964 by the merger of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar, was also scheduled to choose a president, but the voting was delayed until December after the death Wednesday of a senior opposition candidate. The country's ruling Revolutionary Party of Tanzania, which has won international praise for its democratic and economic policies, is considered a shoo-in on the mainland, where Muslims do not hold the majority. But most predict the opposition Civic United Front has the edge on Zanzibar and Pemba, the semiautonomous territory's two populated islands.
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By: The Christian Science Monitor, October 31, 2005
The US reaches out to gain popular support in Kyrgyzstan, where it hopes to retain use of a key airbase.
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By: The Australian, November 1, 2005
The media has focused on his anti-Israel outburst, but his speech was about the wider battle with the West.
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By: Radio Free Europe, October 31, 2005
Observers say the government of Uzbekistan has taken steps to curtail the activities of many of the country's rights workers and opposition leaders since the bloody suppression of the Andijon popular uprising in May. One, activist Yelena Urlaeva, was committed to a psychiatric hospital for nearly three months before being released last week. Others are in police custody, including opposition leader Sanjar Umarov and activist Mutabar Tojiboeva. With Uzbekistan nearing the end of trials of the alleged Andijon perpetrators, RFE/RL reports on the continued repression of many of the country's activists.
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By: BBC News, October 31, 2005
In homes and cafes, at work and in the car, many Syrians tuned in to news channels on the radio and television, waiting anxiously for the outcome of the United Nations Security Council session in New York.
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By: Transitions Online, October 31, 2005
Turkmenistan appears to be increasing pressure against Islam religious practise, with a human-rights activist reporting increased moves against practising male Muslims visiting mosques in northern Turkmenistan, including two arrests.
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By Stephen Mulvey, BBC News, October 31, 2005
Independence Square was packed with hope-filled Ukrainians
A year after the first round of the presidential election that set in motion Ukraine's Orange Revolution, few Ukrainians see much to cheer about. The millions who stood for weeks on Kiev's Independence Square to demand a free and fair vote achieved their main goals. They kicked out a corrupt leadership, won freedom of speech and set the country on a path towards Europe.
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By: The Guardian UK, October 31, 2005
Marching under the banner of a new "gender jihad", Islamic feminists from around the world this weekend launched what they hope will become a global movement to liberate Muslim women.
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By: Reuters, October 31, 2005
A 52-year-old Iranian has been sentenced to death for killing his 70-year-old lover when she asked to marry him, a newspaper reported Monday.
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