Maoist-led strikes are endangering Nepal’s peace process and the writing of a new constitution, ruling party leaders said as the former rebels vowed to continue protesting against the president. Two days of strikes have paralyzed the...

At the height of Iran’s bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates at a Tehran prison that he said were falsified to cover up murder. He testified to...

A wave of strikes culminating on Thursdays pan-worker mobilisation has been the response to the scaremongering of the government amidst the worsening economic crisis that threatens Greece with bankruptcy. After the week of riots came the week...

When millions of Iranians took to the streets following June’s presidential elections, their main target was Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the hardline president they accused of stealing the vote. Convinced that Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the former prime...

Tehran University students have been filing into their classes past giant posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the stern slogans of the Islamic revolution for the last 30 years. But the angry scenes on the university’s sprawling campus this week...

The presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc nations expressed their “most energetic condemnation” of the coup in Honduras and announced their “full non-recognition” of the new government that emerged from the Nov. 29 elections that...

Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Thursday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country’s most prominent university and assaulted students who had gathered in protest. Armed with steel clubs,...

Honduras’ president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed him. “There should be (an amnesty) for all those involved,” Porfirio Lobo...

Six months after Iran’s disputed presidential election the bloodied and battered opposition movement refuses to give up. On campuses across the country yesterday tens of thousands of students led the latest round of demonstrations against a...

Riot police in Greece fired tear gas canisters at youths Monday during a second day of protests commemorating a teenager shot dead by police last year, an incident that sparked the country’s worst unrest in decades. Some of the 3,000...