Home » Page 5

government

Kyrgyz opposition controls government building (AP)

April 8th, 2010

People carry an injured man near the main government building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Clashes have broken out at an anti-government demonstration in Kyrgystan's capital, with protesters setting fire to cars and police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.(AP Photo/Azamat Imanaliyev)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s opposition has taken over the government headquarters, the site of deadly clashes with police, and appears to be in control of the capital Thursday.


Tags: opposition, building, government,…

Kyrgyzstan opposition forms own new government (AP)

April 7th, 2010

Blooded Kyrgyz police officers huddle together for protection, as they are attacked by protestors in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010, following clashes with police. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan say they have formed a new acting government in the Central Asian nation.


Tags: forms, Kyrgyzstan, government, central asian nation, opposition

Protesters rally to oust Thailand’s government (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Demonstrators gather with a giant flag during a demonstration to counter the anti-government protesters outside a park in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 2, 2010. About 3,000 demonstrators gathered to show their support for the government and urged Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resist the demand of the ongoing anti-government protesters or Red-Shirt movement, which calls for House dissolution within 15 days. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Thousands of anti-government protesters launched their fourth weekend march in the streets of the Thai capital Saturday, groping for tactics that have yet to force the prime minister…

Afghan government reports 6 civilian deaths (AP)

March 28th, 2010

Afghan policemen in Herat in August 2009. A string of roadside bomb attacks have killed six civilians and wounded five children in insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities have said.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AP - Hundreds of Afghans have protested a NATO airstrike in the country’s north that killed seven policemen. Separately, the government says six civilians were killed in weekend explosions.


Tags: government,…

Iraqi vote winner hopes to form government soon (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Supporters of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, seen in the poster, take to the streets after the results released by Iraq's election commission show a secular challenger has beaten the country's prime minister in parliamentary elections, positioning him to be the first to try to form a government in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. The narrow margin — 91 seats for Ayad Allawi's coalition to 89 for al-Maliki's alliance — sets the stage for months of political wrangling as the veterans of Iraq's young democracy attempt to win support for a majority coalition.  (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The top vote-getter in Iraq’s parliamentary elections says he wants to negotiate with all parties to form a government that can restore Iraq’s place in the Arab and…

Ex-drug lords’ property used by Haiti government (AP)

March 24th, 2010

People pass by the former Gold Gym shopping,  which was expropriated by the Haitian government from a major cocaine trafficker and is now the new headquarters of the Provisional Electoral Council, in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. New cooperation between Haitian authorities and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,  DEA,  before the earthquake has brought an unexpected yield to a country whose infrastructure is now in ruins: confiscated properties that are spacious, opulent and free.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Election workers scurry across the airy courtyard of their lavish new headquarters, a three-story building that hardly suffered a crack in Haiti’s earthquake.


Tags: government, property, Haiti, used, Exdrug,…

Sarkozy to rejig government after poll defeat (AFP)

March 22nd, 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves a booth at a Paris polling station during the secound round of the regional elections. Sarkozy was left scrambling for a way to relaunch his once relentless reform drive on Monday, after a humiliating defeat in nationwide regional elections.(AFP/Pool/Philippe Wojazer)AFP - France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy was left scrambling for a way to relaunch his once relentless reform drive on Monday, after a humiliating defeat in nationwide regional elections.


Tags: defeat,…

Thai protesters pour own blood at government HQ (AP)

March 16th, 2010

A supporter of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  holds a blood bottle before spilling at the front gate of the Government House Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai protesters poured blood they had donated outside the front gate of the government headquarters Tuesday in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.   (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Thai protesters seeking a change of government turned to shock tactics Tuesday, pouring gallons of their own blood into a glistening puddle at the gate of the prime…