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Sudan’s military leaders and pro-democracy forces will delay the signing of an agreement to usher in a civilian government, both sides said in a joint statement issued early Saturday. The postponement of the signing — which had been scheduled for later Saturday — comes as key security reform negotiations between…

No American is above the law — not even former presidents. After a monthslong investigation, a New York grand jury indicted former president Donald J. Trump on charges related to hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

The indictment against former President Donald Trump involves a payoff to suppress claims of an extramarital affair

Washington’s criticism of Israel not about Palestinians but can lead to questioning of US-Israel ties, analysts say.

The real winners are far from clear, but Thailand’s populist, party jumping election is Asia’s vote to watch this year.

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammad al-Sudani, has confirmed that consolidating democracy, political pluralism, and freedom of expression is one of the cabinet’s priorities, nearly 20 years after overthrowing the previous regime. The Prime Minister recalled that Iraqis made many sacrifices in their demand for freedom after the dictatorship oppressed and…

The International Federation of Journalists yesterday condemned “government censorship, press blackouts and restriction of journalists’ social media accounts” in Punjab as a fallout of the search for Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh. It described these moves as “dire impositions on press freedom and democracy in India”.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., sitting on millions of dollars of campaign cash, used Trump’s indictment to raise more money for his already abundant congressional campaign fund.

The fact that there is no choreographed political theater around the indictment is precisely how democracies tend to work: in a messy and piecemeal fashion

Events often seem inevitable in hindsight. The indictment of former US President Donald Trump on criminal charges has been a possibility since the start of his presidency – arguably, since close to the beginning of his career in New York real estate.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to give his government almost total power over who is appointed to the courts and hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets to protest changes