Former US president Joe Biden says Donald Trump should be haunted for the rest of his life by the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, describing his predecessor and successor
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, has sought the presidency of Brazil eight times since 1989. He has won the presidency four times (2002, 2006, 2022, and 2026), most recently
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The defeat of political movements rarely follows the decisive ending imagined in literature. Even when an authoritarian leader loses power or an electoral movement suffers a major setback, the political ideas sustaining
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Afghanistan’s Taliban government is gaining international legitimacy while militant threats associated with its territory remain unresolved. Russia has formally recognised Kabul’s rulers, China is pursuing economic cooperation, and regional powers continue discussing
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The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission published its seventh report on Czechia on 27 October. ECRI’s team had been in the country the previous November, and by the standards of such documents
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The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not
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The Democratic Party has flipped the House and the Senate. While there are still votes left to be counted and races yet to be determined, the Democrats’ victory is unambiguously big –
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Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
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A Chinese court has begun proceedings in a US$53.5 billion defamation case brought by authorities and research institutions against the US state of Missouri over allegations concerning its handling of the Covid-19
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The internet has fundamentally altered who can participate in democratic public discourse, how political information circulates and who has the power to shape public opinion. Yet the legal principles governing democratic communication
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Germany is reconsidering one of the fundamental principles governing its sexual criminal law: what constitutes consent. A proposed reform of Section 177 of the German Criminal Code would shift the legal focus
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival following Israel’s latest parliamentary election has left the country facing an uncertain government formation process, with significant implications for regional security, the war in Gaza and the possibility
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Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has accused former presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel of treason, alleging that she carried out information and sabotage activities against the country and justified Russia’s war of aggression.
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Sri Lanka faces a serious risk of losing the European Union’s GSP+ trade concessions if the government proceeds with two proposed laws on preventing organised crime and protecting the state from terrorism,
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Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori has received overwhelmingly negative public evaluations during the first 100 days of her administration, with 85% of respondents describing the government’s performance as fair or poor, according to
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As Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent months, the deployment of fiber-optic drones has proven devastatingly effective. The drones use hair-thin cables to maintain direct connections with
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