Hawk Newsome, head of Black Lives Matter NYC, turned himself in on assault charges after a Harlem protest and invoked Martin ...

Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...

Japan’s ruling party leader Sanae Takaichi called on the leaders of an Osaka-based opposition party to back her in a parliamentary vote to decide the prime minister expected next week. “We’re almost ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a "towering statesman" over decades of upheaval, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday during a health visit to India -- a political earthquake that leaves the east ...

TOKYO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Sanae Takaichi, is making arrangements to hold one-on-one meetings with each of the country's three major ...

Seychelles' opposition leader Patrick Herminie won the presidential run-off on Sunday, electoral commission results showed, after a race dominated by environmental and economic concerns. The Indian ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." The announcement of ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, a pro-democracy activist who has been in hiding for most of the past year, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her long crusade to fight ...

Opposition leader María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a unifying figure in Venezuela’s political opposition. Machado has ...