Political rivals join forces to break UK...

Political academics gave their first reactions to the creation of a new mixed-party alliance in Britain's House of Commons on Wednesday. The big question now is whether the fledgling Independent Gro

Three Tory MPs join new breakaway group ...

Three British politicians quit the governing Conservative Party Wednesday to join the newly established group of independent MPs. The decision to leave, announced by Sarah Wollaston, Heidi Allen and

Deputy chief of State Tobacco Monopoly A...

BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Hongshun, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA), is being investigated for suspected serious violations of Party disciplinary rules and la

Thai party dissolution bid forwarded to ...

BANGKOK, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Election Commission's (EC) bid to dissolve a political party which has named Thailand's Princess Ubolratana Mahidol as candidate for prime minister, was forwarded to

Algeria's oldest opposition party to boy...

ALGIERS, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Front of Socialist Forces (FFS), the oldest opposition party in Algeria, is set to boycott the presidential elections slated for April 18, local media reported on Sat