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8/9/2022 11:50:50 AM
Kenyans are voting Tuesday in an unusual presidential election, where a longtime opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces the brash deputy president who styles himself as the outsider and a ``hustler.''
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5/3/2022 7:28:00 PM
Germany's conservative opposition leader traveled to Kyiv on Tuesday for meetings with Ukrainian officials including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz made clear that he wouldn't be visiting Ukraine any time soon.
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4/21/2022 2:24:01 PM
Turkey's main opposition leader said Thursday that his power supply had been cut at home after he stopped paying electricity bills in protest at sharp utility bill hikes.
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International
3/22/2022 3:34:44 PM
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison on Tuesday, in a trial Kremlin critics see as an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin's most ardent foe in prison for as long as possible.
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World
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International
3/15/2022 6:10:16 PM
The Russian authorities are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a trial Kremlin critics see as an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin's most ardent foe in prison for as long as possible.
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International
2/8/2022 2:19:07 PM
Britain's embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced renewed pressure Tuesday to apologise to opposition leader Keir Starmer for what critics have called a misleading "Trumpian" attack on him last week.
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International
1/16/2022 1:40:03 PM
Britain's main opposition leader on Sunday accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of breaking the law, but the government vowed changes after a bruising series of revelations about lockdown-breaching parties.
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International
1/12/2022 3:50:58 PM
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday offered "heartfelt apologies" for attending a lockdown-breaching party held in his Downing Street garden, but deflected calls to resign as the opposition leader called him a "man without shame".
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Africa
12/14/2021 1:06:25 PM
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said Tuesday that police had surrounded his residence and put him under house arrest ahead of a planned campaign rally for a local by-election.
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Africa
12/11/2021 12:54:10 PM
Benin opposition leader Reckya Madougou was sentenced on Saturday to 20 years in prison for terrorism by a special court in the capital Porto-Novo after a brief trial that her lawyers condemned as a "political attack".
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International
11/6/2021 8:24:22 PM
Thousands of Georgians rallied Saturday for the jailed opposition leader and ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili as fears grew for his health because of a hunger strike lasting several weeks.
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International
10/20/2021 7:41:39 PM
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was awarded the European Union's top human rights prize Wednesday in a clear slap at President Vladimir Putin for his actions against his biggest domestic foe.
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Africa
8/31/2021 12:49:27 PM
Freeman Mbowe and his supporters accuse police of torturing him in custody to force him to make a statement in the trial which opened under tight security, with most journalists banned from the courtroom by police
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Region
6/20/2021 5:55:12 PM
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his family will leave the country's official prime minister's residence no later than July 10, Netanyahu and Israel's new prime minister said.
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World
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Region
6/13/2021 4:55:13 PM
Netanyahu is slated to become opposition leader later Sunday when parliament is expected to approve a vote of confidence in a new coalition formed by his opponents
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Region
6/7/2021 12:06:31 PM
Mohtashamipour backed the opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi in Iran's Green Movement protests that followed the disputed 2009 re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Region
5/30/2021 10:25:13 AM
A 28-day mandate for opposition leader to form a new government runs out on Wednesday, and media reports said he was close to putting together a coalition that would end Netanyahu's 12-year stretch as prime minister
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Africa
5/6/2021 9:50:02 PM
Djimon Ore, president of the Front for Patriots of Democracy (FPD) party and a former communications minister, was detained at his house in the capital Lome
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World
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Region
5/5/2021 7:25:13 PM
President Reuven Rivlin announced his decision on live television a day after Netanyahu failed to cobble together a governing coalition by a midnight deadline
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World
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Africa
3/5/2021 5:31:08 PM
Hefty police deployments were in place around the law courts, presidential palace and National Assembly in the heart of the Senegalese capital
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