Managua (Nicaragua), Nov 22 (DPA) Thousands of protestors in the Central American country of Nicaragua took to the streets of Managua against President Daniel Ortega, who opposition parties and citizens' groups accuse ...

Los Angeles, Nov 19 (DPA) Thousands of Sarah Palin fans thronged to the opening of her book tour as the former Republican vice presidential candidate embarked on a campaign that appeared ...

Melbourne, Nov 18 (ANI): Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has indicated that she might run for the White House in 2012 to champion the cause of America's Republican right. ...

Tehran, Nov 18 (DPA) The Iranian judiciary has issued death sentences against five more dissidents, state media reported. The judiciary announced in a statement that death sentences had been issued against five and ...

Kabul, Nov.5 (ANI): The United Nations is to relocate 600 staff from Afghanistan after attacks on a Kabul guest house last week. The some 600 non-essential staff will be moved for four ...

Kabul, Nov 2 (DPA) The Afghan Independent Election Commission Monday declared incumbent Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential election after his challenger pulled out of the coming weekend's runoff. The commission cancelled ...

Kabul, Nov 2 (DPA) The Afghan Independent Election Commission Monday declared incumbent Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential election after his challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of a runoff planned for ...

Kabul, Oct.31 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's political opponent and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah is expected to decide whether to withdraw from, or boycott, a presidential election run-off next Saturday. According ...

Sydney, Oct 27 (IANS) Geoff Pollard's win in Tennis Australia's (TA) presidential election has dismayed the country's no.1 player Lleyton Hewit, who has called for the voting details to be made public. Pollard ...

Washington, Oct 27 (IANS) President Barack Obama has said he would not rush into a decision over whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan. "I will never rush the solemn decision ...

Montevideo (Uruguay), Oct 23 (DPA) Former Uruguayan dictator Gregorio Alvarez was condemned Thursday to 25 years in jail for his involvement in the deaths of scores of leftist activists during the 1973-85 ...

Washington, Oct 21 (DPA) The US Tuesday called for the immediate release of an Iranian-American citizen who was sentenced to a 12-year prison term in Iran, declaring the charges against him are ...

Kabul, Oct 20 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday that he failed to win an outright election in the first round of voting and accepted the results requiring a second round ...

Kabul, Oct. 20 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appears ready to accept that he fell short of a first-round victory in the nation's disputed presidential election, and therefore, is amenable to ...

Jakarta, Oct 20 (DPA) Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in for a second term Tuesday after a landslide win in July's election. With a cleric holding a copy of the Koran ...

Tehran, Oct 18 (DPA) Iran Saturday released Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari on bail after four months' detention, the ILNA news agency reported. Iranian-Canadian Maziar Bahari was released on bail amounting to almost $300,000, ...

Colombo, Oct 16 (DPA) Sri Lanka's military Friday denied widespread reports of a rift between the government and the ex-army commander who led the troops in the war against Tamil rebels. The ...

New York, Oct 13 (DPA) The foreign minister of the ousted government of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya called on the US to impose sanctions on the de facto post-coup government in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya ...

Kabul, Oct.12 (ANI): UN envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide has finally acknowledged that some of the votes cast in the August 20 presidential elections were fraudulent, but has denied claims by former ...

New York, Oct.9 (ANI): The United Nations Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Karl Eide, has denied accusations he tried to cover up fraud in the country's recent presidential election. Eide said the allegations, ...

London, Oct 4 (ANI): Afghanistan's incumbent President Hamid Karzai's main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, has called for an inquiry into the United Nations role since the August poll. The UN along with the ...

Kabul, Sep 19 (ANI): Some ready-to-cast ballot papers for Afghanistan's presidential election were pre-marked for Hamid Karzai, footage obtained by the Guardian has revealed. Ballot papers pre-marked for Hamid Karzai that were ...

Kabul, Sep 17 (DPA) President Hamid Karzai called for prudence Thursday, a day after preliminary official results gave him an outright win in the first round of a presidential election that was ...

Kabul, Sep 16 (DPA) President Hamid Karzai won an absolute majority in Afghanistan's presidential election, according to a final preliminary result released by the election commission Wednesday. Incumbent Karzai won 54.6 percent of ...

Kabul, Sep 16 (DPA) President Hamid Karzai won an absolute majority in Afghanistan's presidential election, the official election commission announced Wednesday. Incumbent Karzai won 54.6 percent of the vote in the Aug 20 ...

Tehran, Sep 12 (DPA) A special judicial committee has rejected allegations by the opposition of rape in Iranian jails, Fars news agency reported Saturday. The committee said in a report that Mehdi Karroubi, ...

Kabul, Sep 10 (DPA) Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to President Hamid Karzai in the Afghan presidential election, Thursday accused the country's election commission of corruption and bias towards the incumbent. In an ...

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Parenthood is heightening the political 'gender gap,' with women becoming more liberal and men more conservative when it comes to government spending on social welfare issues, according to ...

Paris, Sep. 3 (ANI): Western envoys to Afghanistan have said that their respective governments should "be prepared for a run-off" in the Afghanistan presidential election if too many votes are ruled ...

Tehran, Sep 1(ANI): If reports are to be believed it is being claimed that Mohsen Rouhalamini, the son of an adviser to defeated presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei, is the first official confirmation ...