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Thai Protesters End Rally At Police HQ But Say Fight Will Go On

Protesters in Thailand trying to bring down the government abruptly ended a rally at national police headquarters on Wednesday but their leader said the fight would go on despite efforts by authorities to defuse the crisis. The military, which has...

Ukraine Ministers Beat Street Blockade, Ready For Cabinet Meeting: Spokesman

Ukrainian ministers reached the main government headquarters in Kiev on Wednesday despite attempts by protesters to block their way and were preparing to hold a regular cabinet meeting, the government press service said. Thousands of protesters, demonstrating against the government's...

Support For Afghanistan At Risk If Security Pact Delayed Further: U.S.

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Global support for Afghanistan will fade the longer President Hamid Karzai delays signing a security pact with the United States, a senior U.S. official warned, as special envoy James Dobbins arrived in Kabul on Wednesday for talks with the...

Confidence Vote Sought As Ukraine Leader Heads For China

Thousands of pro-EU protesters calling for the resignation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich gathered outside parliament on Tuesday with opposition leaders pressing for a vote of no-confidence in his government. Only days after a massive rally that brought 350,000 protesters...

South Africans Fume As Jo’burg Road Toll Goes Live

South Africa's government launched a widely unpopular road toll around the economic hub of Johannesburg on Tuesday, a move likely to heighten tensions with its union allies and alienate some voters in the run-up to next year's elections. The electronic...

Congo’s Kabila Wants To Conclude Talks With Rebels: Statement

Congo's president wants talks with rebels in the country's east concluded as soon as possible, Ugandan and Congolese statements said, although there was no sign of a breakthrough on the wording of an accord that scuppered a signing last...

Thai Government Defuses Confrontation, Protest Leader Says Not OverThai Government Defuses Confrontation, Protest Leader Says Not Over

Thailand's government ordered police on Tuesday to stop confronting protesters demanding the resignation of the prime minister, raising hopes that days of political violence may end, but the leader of the campaign said the fight would go on. The protesters...

Protests Show Putin The Battle For Ukraine Is Not Over

Protests by hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine against their leaders' U-turn over Europe have sent a warning to Vladimir Putin that the battle over the former Soviet republic's future is far from over. For once, matters may be...

UK Fails To Deport Man On Hunger Strike To Nigeria

Britain’s Home Secretary has come under fire for the failed deportation of a seriously ill African asylum seeker from Britain. Isa Muazu, 45, from the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, was returned to at Harmondsworth detention centre near London's Heathrow...

Thai PM Calls For Talks As Police Use Rubber Bullets On Protesters

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Monday she would "open every door" to find a peaceful solution to the current political crisis, as thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital seeking to topple her government. She...