MALE, Maldives — Opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz won the Maldives presidential runoff on Saturday, securing more than 53% of the vote, local media reported. The election has turned into a virtual referendum on which regional power — India or China — will have the biggest influence in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation. Mihaaru News reported … Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean judge on Wednesday denied an arrest warrant for the country’s opposition leader on broad corruption allegations, saying there wasn’t a clear risk that he would destroy evidence. Lee Jae-myung, who awaited the decision at a detention facility where he would have been held had the judge approved his … Read more
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian opposition parties called on the speaker of the House of Commons to resign Monday for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president. Peter Julian, the New Democratic Party House leader, and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — A 35-year-old businessman without prior political experience was elected Sunday to lead Greece’s main opposition bloc, the left-wing Syriza party. Stefanos Kasselakis defeated Effie Achtsioglou, a 38-year-old lawmaker and former labor minister, in a runoff contest. Three other candidates had been eliminated in an earlier first round. With the votes still being … Read more
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest area was allowed to briefly go away his high-security jail cell Wednesday for medical assessments, highlighting how the politician broadly thought-about the nation’s opposition chief has been governing from behind bars for greater than eight months. Santa Cruz Gov. Luis Fernando Camacho, who … Read more
BANGKOK — BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-installed authorities has ordered East Timor’s senior diplomat to go away the nation in retaliation for the East Timorese authorities holding conferences with Myanmar’s most important opposition group, the Overseas Ministry stated Sunday. The assertion stated East Timor has performed engagements with Myanmar’s shadow Nationwide Unity Authorities, which views … Read more
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime investigation company has arrested an opposition chief, who’s a detailed aide of convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, for exposing official secrets and techniques and harming state pursuits, in keeping with case paperwork revealed Sunday. It’s the newest improvement in a standoff between the administration of outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — A outstanding journalist in Belarus was sentenced Wednesday to 6 years in jail, the newest step in a years-long crackdown on opposition figures, unbiased journalists and human rights activists. On trial within the metropolis of Grodno in western Belarus, Pavel Mazheika, 45, was discovered responsible of “complicity in extremist exercise” for overlaying … Read more
TIRANA, Albania — Albanian authorities on Tuesday raided a camp for members of the exiled Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq to grab 150 laptop gadgets allegedly linked to prohibited political actions, and several other individuals have been injured. Albanian Inside Minister Bledi Cuci and the top of the nationwide police, Muhamet Rrumbullaku, stated each cops and … Read more
MELEKHOVO, Russia — Imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny went on trial Monday on new prices of extremism that might maintain him behind bars for many years. The trial opened at a most safety penal colony in Melekhovo, 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of Moscow, the place Navalny, 47, is serving a nine-year sentence for … Read more