Sub Saharan Africa
By: Online Journal, November 4, 2005
Palestinian Ayed Morrar and Israeli Jonathan Pollack spoke about the nonviolent, resistance movement against the Israeli military occupation.
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By: Iran Focus, November 5, 2005
Dozens of people from the Arab-dominated city of Ahwaz, south-western Iran, gathered in the city centre on Saturday in protest against the arrest of their relatives during anti-government protests on Friday, one of the demonstrators told Iran Focus.
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Asia
By: BBC Online, November 5, 2005
BBC accounts of an uprising in the Uzbek town of Andijan earlier this year - when government troops opened fire on protesters - have resulted in the closure of the BBC bureau in the capital, Tashkent.
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By: Reuters, November 5, 2005
Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood is standing in only about a third of parliamentary seats in coming elections, to avoid friction with the country's ruling party, its leader said in comments printed on Saturday.
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By: Kuwait News Agency, November 6, 2005
The first phase of Egypt's most heated parliamentary elections will kick off next Wednesday in the country's eight governorates with new procedures to enhance transparency.
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By: Financial Times, November 6, 2005
Azerbaijan's ruling party has claimed victory in the oil-rich country's parliamentary election, while the main opposition party denounced the polls as a fraud.
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By: Star Tribune, November 4, 2005
Venezuelan authorities ordered the detention of four people, including an outspoken journalist, an opposition-aligned businessmen and a Cuban dissident, saying they orchestrated the 2004 assassination of a leading prosecutor.
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By: BBC Online, November 4, 2005
The Council of Europe has demanded an investigation into claims the US ran secret jails for terror suspects. The human rights watchdog called the claims "extremely worrying" and said such prisons would constitute a serious human rights violation.
By: News From Russia, November 5, 2005
A Spanish court Friday rejected a Cuban dissident group's attempt to have Cuban President Fidel Castro tried in Spain on charges of genocide and other offenses.
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"By Reuters' Cris Chinaka, November 5, 2005
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday his party's national council backs his call for a boycott of senate polls, but MDC ranks are divided as a pro-election faction shunned a key meeting.
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"By Peta Thornycroft,Independent Online, November 6, 2005
Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has split. While Morgan Tsvangirai, its leader, on Saturday decisively won the battle to boycott senate elections, he lost most of his most senior colleagues in the process. Tsvangirai called on Saturday's meeting of the MDC's national council and it voted overwhelmingly against participation in the upcoming national elections to establish a senate, reversing a narrow decision on October 12 to field candidates for the poll. "
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By: BBC Online, November 7, 2005
Election officials and UN peacekeepers say everything is ready for Liberia's presidential run-off on Tuesday - the first after the end of 14 years of war. Over the weekend, tens of thousands of rival supporters marched through the capital, Monrovia but there were no reports of any trouble.
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By: BBC Online, November 7, 2005
The Ethiopian capital is calm at the start of a week-long opposition strike to protest at the deaths of at least 46 people in demonstrations last week. Many shops are closed and most taxis not operating, but buses are running and a large numbers of pedestrians.
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By: The Christian Science Monitor, November 7, 2005
Clashes between opposition protesters and security forces in Ethiopia killed more than 46 people in the past week.
In Africa's decade-plus experiment with multiparty democracy, there appears to be significant backsliding, ironically, among some heads of state once heralded as the next generation of great leaders on the continent. And the slippage, observers say, is sometimes being abetted by the US and other rich-nation donors - in part because of the war on terror.
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By: BBC News, November 7, 2005
Burma's military junta has confirmed that it has begun moving parts of the government to a new jungle location. Information Minister Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan said nine ministries had begun the move to Pyinmana, 600km (373 miles) north of Rangoon.
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