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Collection of dissident news, found 14 news.

Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu Xiaobo released on medical parole

Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winning rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole and is ...

Kerry in Riyadh as Saudi-Iran tensions simmer

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday hoping for an easing of tensions between the ...

Large protests in Vietnam over China oil rig

Protesters staged one of Vietnams largest ever anti-China demonstrations Sunday, decrying Beijings deployment of a ...

British PM meets Myanmar leader on historic visit

British Prime Minister David Cameron met Myanmar's president Friday on the first visit in decades by a Western leader ...

Suu Kyi party `wins 43 seats` in Myanmar elections

Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi`s party won almost all the seats it contested in Myanmar elections, becoming the ...

Blasts shake Homs, Syria rebels hit back

Blasts rocked the flashpoint city of Homs on Sunday as Syria`s regime pressed its assault on protest hubs, while ...

Eight killed, Yemenis hope for UN pressure on Saleh

Eight Yemenis, including five protesters, were killed in a new upsurge in violence in the capital on Sunday, hospital ...

Yemen protesters urge UN to put Saleh on trial

Demonstrators on Friday called for the United Nations to intervene to put Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on trial ...

Yemeni general killed, 30 troops taken hostage: sources

A general was killed and 30 other troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were taken hostage when ...

Yemen security forces kill 20 in Sanaa: medics

Yemeni security forces killed 20 people, including three dissident soldiers and two children, in the capital Sanaa on ...

Yemen security forces kill 26 protesters: medics

Yemeni security forces opened fire on anti-regime demonstrators in Sanaa on Sunday, killing at least 26 and wounding ...

Elbaradei tells Cairo protesters we are `beginning new era`

Top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told thousands at the epicentre of anti-regime protests in Cairo on Sunday that they ...

Mubarak must go, protests to intensify:Elbaradei

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak "must go," top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told France 24 television on Saturday from ...

All involved in Tunisia repression will face justice - pm

Officials who cracked down violently on protests that helped oust Tunisia`s president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali will ...