Venezuelans describe their fear of speaking out as 14 media workers are detained and police check people's social media.

Drones flying near Venezuela’s presidential palace set off a hail of bullets and anti-aircraft fire in Caracas Monday night, days after US forces deposed and captured dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Russian security forces disrupted a punk music festival at a Moscow nightclub Tuesday evening, stopping concertgoers and checking their phones for subscriptions to opposition and anti-war Telegram channels,

The Times reports Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a Moscow escape plan if protests and defections overwhelm security forces amid a currency crisis.

At least seven people have been killed during the largest wave of demonstrations since 2022 as crowds have increasingly shouted anti-government slogans.

Besigye was Uganda’s most prominent opposition leader before the rise of Wine, 43, who presents a different challenge for Museveni as the face of youthful hope for change. Wine has a large following among working-class people in urban areas, and his party has the most seats of any opposition party in Parliament.

Fourteen Maoists have been killed in two separate encounters by security forces in Chhattisgarh's Sukma and neighbouring Bijapur districts on Saturday morning. Of the fourteen Maoists, 12 were killed in Sukma and two were killed in Bijapur.