Full Coverage: Politics

31.12.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 31 (OneWorld) - Benazir Bhutto's supporters are wondering if the UN Security Council is helping cover up a conspiracy behind her killing.

27.12.2007 The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide attack. The suicide bomber struck shortly after she addressed a political rally in Rawalpindi, killing at least 20 other people.

21.12.2007 Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi. While she escaped injury, her supporters are said to have been hurt and her campaign van extensively damaged by stoning…Still, those targeted in this incident were probably luckier than Martha Kibwana.

17.12.2007 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s may have lifted the emergency, on December 15, as promised, but this has failed to satisfy civil rights activists in the country who say this is not sufficient to put the country back on the path of democracy.

12.12.2007 US Congressman Edward J. Markey took an alternate — and virtually carbon-free — route to Bali this morning, as he offered the United Nations climate summit there a vision of US climate policy that is strongly critical of the Bush administration.