A strike by more than 90,000 government workers has paralysed Botswana in southern Africa for more than a week.
Voting started this month for elections in the Indian state of West Bengal.
A damning new report confirms human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan government during the last months of its war against the Tamil Tigers.
The euphoria that greeted Western intervention in Libya has given way to deep suspicion as the fighting drags on.
Yemen Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded towns and cities across Yemen last Sunday.
Western forces played a key role in the capture of Ivory Coast’s sitting president Laurent Gbagbo in the city of Abidjan on Monday.
The brutal reality of Western intervention in Libya is being exposed by the day. As towns fall and are retaken, the revolution is being taken out of the hands of the revolutionaries.
In an important move, Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, has called for an end to the air attacks on Libya.
Protests against president Ali Abdullah Saleh continued to rock Yemen this week. His security forces are continuing to try to crush the movement.
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French and United Nations (UN) helicopters bombed the compound of Ivory Coast’s sitting president Laurent Gbagbo on Monday.
As Japan tries to come to terms with the havoc and devastation wreaked by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, much has been written about the "stoical character" of the Japanese people. It's true that, for many, the only certainty in this world is disaster—specifically "tensai" (heavenly disaster).
