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3/25/2025 11:16:30 PM
Thousands of students chanting angry slogans hit the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday as a court jailed an AFP journalist and six others for covering the biggest protests to hit Turkey in over a decade.
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3/25/2025 12:29:34 PM
The head of Turkey's main opposition party visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Tuesday after six nights of massive protests calling for his release.
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3/22/2025 10:21:26 PM
Israel's opposition leader on Saturday called for a general strike if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to abide by the Supreme Court's decision freezing its dismissal of the internal security chief.
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2/22/2025 9:34:52 PM
The contenders in Germany's election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend Europe's interests in the face of a confrontational U.S. administration.
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2/10/2025 8:08:46 PM
Israel's opposition leader accused the government on Monday of resisting a state probe into the events surrounding the October 7, 2023 attack, after an inconclusive, court-ordered cabinet meeting about a potential inquiry.
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1/21/2025 5:38:50 PM
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to resign on Tuesday after the country's military chief quit over the October 7, 2023 attack.
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1/13/2025 3:04:58 PM
Mozambique swore in its new parliament on Monday with the streets of the capital deserted after the opposition leader called for a strike to protest the result of highly disputed elections.
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1/12/2025 6:10:10 PM
Comoros held a parliamentary election Sunday that some opposition leaders pledged to boycott, accusing President Azali Assoumani and his ruling party of adopting an increasingly authoritarian stance and raising concerns over the integrity of the vote.
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12/27/2024 3:25:58 PM
A Guinean opposition leader has been arrested and taken into custody for allegedly "insulting" the head of the military government in power since 2021, his lawyer and party told AFP on Friday.
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12/15/2024 11:37:24 AM
South Korea's opposition leader urged a top court on Sunday to swiftly formalise the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol and ease the "suffering of the people" after his short-lived martial law decree.
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11/19/2024 9:50:27 AM
The opposition leader in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland won last week’s election, the electoral commission said Tuesday.
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8/6/2024 5:05:49 PM
Ethiopia is failing to halt significant human rights violations in conflict zones, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as Human Rights Watch condemned the detention of the brother of a murdered opposition leader.
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7/22/2024 11:16:56 AM
More than 500 people, including some opposition leaders, have been arrested over days of clashes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka sparked by protests against job quotas, police said Monday.
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7/21/2024 12:42:47 PM
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga on Sunday made "justice" a prerequisite before any talks with the government a month on from deadly demonstrations.
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6/4/2024 12:51:29 PM
Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hunkered down Tuesday as he prepared to go head-to-head with Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer in the first televised debate of the UK general election campaign on the back foot.
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6/3/2024 5:55:51 PM
British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged Monday to keep the UK’s nuclear weapons, seeking to dispel criticisms that his center-left Labour Party is soft on defense.
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6/1/2024 5:40:54 PM
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid vowed Saturday to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he goes ahead with a truce and captive release deal that his far-right coalition partners have previously opposed.
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4/8/2024 7:32:13 PM
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called Monday for a deal with Hamas to free captives as he visited the United States, which has voiced growing frustration at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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3/27/2024 4:59:39 PM
India on Wednesday summoned a top United States diplomat after Washington said it was "closely watching" events following the jailing of a senior opposition leader weeks ahead of parliamentary elections.
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3/3/2024 11:45:01 AM
Shehbaz Sharif was voted in on Sunday as Pakistan's prime minister for a second time, presiding over a shaky alliance that has shut out followers of jailed opposition leader Imran Khan.
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