ePaperEventsR.AGEmStarMajoritiStarPropertyStarCherishStarCarsifuStarSearchmyStarjobKualiKuntumSuriaFM988FM
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities detained a lawyer for President Tayyip Erdogan's biggest political rival, jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an MP of the main opposition party, CHP, said on Friday.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's main opposition leader said on Thursday any move to legally bar Istanbul's detained mayor from running for president would only strengthen support for their party, and that any candidate would beat President Tayyip Erdogan in elections.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish opposition parties called on the speaker of the lower house of parliament to resign on Wednesday, just three months into her term, over a dispute about speaking rights that has impacted the workings of parliament.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Istanbul's opposition-run municipal council on Wednesday elected an interim mayor to run the city, after mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed pending trial over graft charges that he and his supporters deny and call politicised.
SEOUL: The Seoul High Court on Wednesday (March 26) acquitted Lee Jae-myung (pic) of violating the Public Official Election Act, paving the way for the main opposition leader to consolidate his leadership in the liberal bloc.
BANGKOK: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has dismissed the People's Party's allegations that she is overshadowed by her father, ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, suggesting instead that the opposition party might be controlled by an outsider.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on corruption charges in a move that inflamed the country's biggest protests in more than a decade.
BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra faces a no-confidence motion in parliament starting on Monday (March 24), with the opposition set to grill her over an underperforming economy and her powerful father's perceived influence over her administration.
SINGAPORE: It has been five years since the opposition Workers' Party eked out a historic win in Sengkang GRC, and another close fight is likely as the PAP tries to win it at the upcoming polls.
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean opposition parties raised a motion to impeach acting President Choi Sang-mok on Friday, the majority Democratic Party said, in a move likely to escalate recent political strife in the country.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey detained Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, on charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group in what the main opposition party on Wednesday called "a coup against our next president".
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's cricket board defended its World-Cup-winning captain Rohit Sharma on Monday after comments about his lack of fitness from a spokesperson for the Congress, the country's main opposition party.
Police started providing additional security for the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party after lawmakers had warned of a potential assassination plot targeting Lee Jae-myung (pic), the Yonhap News Agency reported.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's opposition camp of pro-democracy political parties once held enough power in the city's legislature to block the passage of Bills that it deemed detrimental to the city's residents.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's opposition Democratic Party on Monday urged the country's Constitutional Court to swiftly rule on President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, saying keeping the country waiting is "irresponsible" and deepening social division.
SEOUL: South Korea's opposition Democratic Party on Monday (March 17) urged the country's Constitutional Court to swiftly rule on President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, saying keeping the country waiting is "irresponsible" and deepening social division.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police started on Tuesday providing additional security for the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, after lawmakers had warned of a potential assassination plot targeting Lee Jae-myung, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
SEOUL: The conservative minor opposition New Reform Party on Tuesday (March 18) announced its decision to nominate Rep. Lee Jun-seok as the party's presidential candidate for a potential early election, should President Yoon Suk Yeol be impeached.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's ruling party submitted a bill to parliament on Monday that would ban the Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and impose fines on organisers and people attending the event which Budapest has held for three decades.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the government's purported effort to boost democracy while ending a Kurdish militant insurgency.
