Opposition lawmaker shot An opposition lawmaker was wounded in a drive-by shooting near Bangkok, an attack denounced Wednesday as the first election-related violence as Thailand gears up for a national vote, The Associated Press reported from the capital.
The region has seen an increase in violence; some 2,000 people have been killed in the past two years.Can't keep a good man downRiot police in Zimbabwe broke up an opposition rally, shooting dead one activist and arresting 50 others.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian security forces on Friday attacked two prominent opposition leaders, shooting one to death in the north and beating another in broad daylight in the heart of the capital, Damascus, activists said.
DAKAR, Senegal — Streets were deserted and shops were shut tight Tuesday in Conakry, Guinea, a day after government troops went on a brutal rampage at an opposition rally, shooting, stabbing, raping and assaulting dozens of men and women in a packed stadium.
Similarly, only two positions are permitted in the defensive shooting circle; they try to prevent the opposition from shooting goals.
One is Vladimir Milov, a colleague and friend of Boris Nemtsov, the opposition leader shot dead in February outside the Kremlin.
Earlier reports said opposition fighters shot dead two pilots after they ejected themselves after their chopper was hit.
Exactly a year later, Boris Nemtsov, a leader of Russia's liberal opposition, was shot dead on a bridge by the walls of the Kremlin.
In the other direction, toward the airport, tracers arced across the night sky, as young opposition fighters shot at another military base.
