Thousands of people have rallied across Russia to denounce the government's economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment and a growing potential for protests. Many participants in Saturday's rallies, dubbed the "Day of Wrath" by the opposition, demanded the ...

Hundreds of government supporters surrounded a small group of Cuban dissidents as they marched through Havana on Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the arrests of their loved ones, screaming abuse but otherwise allowing the protest to proceed peacefully. The Ladies in White, most of them mothers and wives of some ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - With tourists looking on, hundreds of pro-government protesters shouted down 40 members of the Cuban opposition group "Ladies in White" in Old Havana on the anniversary Thursday of a 2003 crackdown on dissidents. State security agents kept the two sides separated during a loud verbal showdown in the Cuban capital's historic center and principal tourist attraction. It ...