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Biden nominee for India envoy says will raise rights, Russia
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
The Los Angeles mayor told his Senate confirmation hearing that he will "actively raise" human rights if confirmed as President Joe Biden's choice as ambassador...
Hong Kong media mogul Lai defiant at Tiananmen vigil sentencing
Dec 13, 2021 (AFP)
Lai, the 74-year-old owner of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty of unlawful assembly charges alongside former journalist G...
'Fraud' case in Iraqi court against election results adjourned
Dec 13, 2021 (AFP)
Judge Jassem Mohamed Aboud, whose court must rule on the complaint before final results are ratified and a new parliament is inaugurated, adjourned the case unt...
W.African states call for Mali polls in February, eye sanctions
Dec 12, 2021 (AFP)
"The heads of state... decided to keep the (deadline) of February 27, 2022 for elections in Mali," president of the West African ECOWAS bloc Jean-Claude Brou to...
China brands US democracy 'weapon of mass destruction'
Dec 11, 2021 (AFP)
China was left out of the two-day virtual summit -- along with countries including Russia and Hungary -- and responded by angrily accusing US President Joe Bide...
'Hold the line': Maria Ressa fights for press freedom under Philippines' Duterte
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
The former CNN correspondent co-founded investigative news site Rappler in 2012, bringing together multimedia reporting and social media to offer an edgy take o...
'Tipping point' makes partisan polarization irreversible
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers employed a predictive model of a polarized group, similar to the current U.S. Senate, to reveal what can happen when the country faces an attack...
Biden touts US as democracy champion, China scoffs
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
Biden's presidency has focused on restoring America to what Ronald Reagan liked to call a "shining city on the hill," or a beacon for freedom that other nations...
New German chancellor Scholz makes European debut
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
Germany's new leader has pledged continuity with his predecessor Angela Merkel, who stepped down Wednesday after 16 years in power. Scholz took power with a dis...
Overseas Hong Kong activists urge boycott of 'patriots-only' polls
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
Hong Kong's political elite will select a 90-seat lawmaking body on December 19 under a new "patriots only" system imposed by Beijing after huge and often viole...
Like a natural system, democracy faces collapse as polarization leads to loss of diversity
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
Fifteen interdisciplinary teams of political scientists and complex systems theorists in the natural sciences and engineering explored how polarization is produ...
The tipping point for legislative polarization
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
"We see this very disturbing pattern in which a shock brings people a little bit closer initially, but if polarization is too extreme, eventually the effects of...
Record number of journalists jailed in 2021: CPJ
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
In its annual report, the CPJ listed 50 journalists imprisoned in China, 26 in Burma, 25 in Egypt, 23 in Vietnam and 19 in Belarus. Adding those jailed in Saudi...
US imposes arms embargo on Cambodia over China, human rights concerns
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
The actions taken by the State and Commerce departments will "restrict" access to "less-sensitive military items" and "defense articles and defense services" by...
Nobel laureate Ressa urges journalists to defend their rights
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
"It has become incredibly hard and far more dangerous for every one of us," Ressa told reporters awaiting her arrival at Oslo's airport ahead of Friday's Nobel ...
Scholz vows 'new beginning' for Germany as Merkel exits
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
Scholz was officially named the country's ninth post-war leader by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who urged him to "ensure that the pandemic does not keep u...
Kremlin slams US Olympics boycott, France seeking EU response
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
US President Joe Biden's administration announced Monday that it will not send any US diplomatic or official governmental representatives to the Games kicking o...
Suu Kyi down but Myanmar democracy movement not out, say analysts
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
Massive protests and a bloody crackdown on dissent followed Suu Kyi's detention in the early hours of the February 1 putsch that ended the Southeast Asian count...
International outcry as Myanmar junta jails Suu Kyi for two years
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
A special court initially sentenced the 76-year-old Nobel laureate to four years in prison, but she was partially "pardoned" hours later by the junta chief, who...
Myanmar chief meets Suu Kyi party stalwart; Soldiers ram car into protest
Dec 05, 2021 (AFP)
The military deposed Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party from power, pushing many of her closest political allies into hiding while others have ...
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