WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and exiled Chinese dissidents urged President Barack Obama on Monday to intervene with China's government on behalf of ...
Northern Ireland was on edge Monday after a huge car bomb only just failed to cause devastation at the weekend, in a new ...
Police: IRA dissidents plant huge car bomb in Belfast but it fails to explode; 4 other arrests Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's ...
A senior United States official voiced concerns on Friday about the restrictions on opposition parties and human rights abuses in Ethiopia ahead of elections next year. "The US is concerned by what we see as reduction in political space and the ability ...
Although US President Barack Obama raised the thorny issue of human rights during his first visit to China this week, he left many political dissidents -- those who were not locked up -- disappointed. Obama spoke about his belief in "universal rights" ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuba's Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for "dangerousness," Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Wednesday. The ...
French academic Clotilde Reiss on Tuesday appeared before Tehran's Revolutionary Court and was then allowed to return to her country's embassy, the French foreign ministry said. The 24-year-old Iran expert was arrested at Tehran airport on July 1 and charged with "collecting ...
Top Cuban activist ends hunger strike, resumes normal diet amid reports she was gravely ill A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the ...
French academic Clotilde Reiss on Tuesday appeared before Tehran's Revolutionary Court and was then allowed to return to her country's embassy, the French foreign ministry said. The 24-year-old Iran expert was arrested at Tehran airport on July 1 and charged with "collecting ...
France is demanding formal guarantees from Iran that it will not jail a French academic while she awaits a verdict in her trial, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday. The minister told France Inter radio that Clotilde Reiss, who is sheltered in ...
The threat posed by paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland is the highest it has been in six years, an independent watchdog said on Wednesday. One senior police chief warned that Republican dissidents could even stage attacks on the British mainland, 15 years ...
Small number of IRA veterans aiding dissidents in Northern Ireland attacks, report says Irish Republican Army dissidents are posing their greatest security threat in Northern Ireland since the province's peace accord 11 years ago — and are receiving help from a handful ...
