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Australians are rightly happy their democracy has avoided the radical, anti-democratic movements sweeping through the United States and Europe.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is concerned that democracy in the United States could disappear with a widening political divide exacerbated by the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week.

As the UN marks the International Day of Democracy on Monday, the global body called for renewed commitment to civic freedoms – but fresh data suggests Europe, long seen as democracy’s safe zone, is now one of the regions where those freedoms are most under strain.

In NYT op-ed, Lula praises ‘historic’ sentencing of Bolsonaro on coup charges, slams US levies on Brazil as misguided.

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is expanding at a critical moment in the United States

On April 20 1972, 100 newly elected parliamentarians gathered in Port Moresby for the opening of the Third House of Assembly, Papua New Guinea’s legislative body.

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Editorial: Though the far-right former president has been held accountable for overseeing the plot, supporters at home and abroad still rally to his cause

Four out of five members of Brazil’s supreme court have voted to convict the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, though his…