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Leaders from across political spectrum congratulate President Murmu

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said Ms. Murmu’s election to the highest office is a testimony to the vibrancy and strength of Indian democracy

The Hindu

Who were the four people executed by Myanmar’s junta?

Veteran democracy activist and a rapper-turned-politician among those executed by the regime

The Guardian - UK

Ofcom finds BBC guilty of impartiality breaches over Ruth Davidson interview

Regulator says World at One failed to properly balance suggestions democracy had become corrupted under SNP government

The Guardian - UK

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‘Protecting democracy is historic necessity’

Not changing the party: Mallu Ravi

The Hindu

Malcolm Nance: Jan. 6 was a trial run

Bestselling author and former intelligence officer: "We were within hours of a full-scale coup d'état" on Jan. 6

Salon

Commentary: The evidence leads to Donald Trump

On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, I was on the House floor as a mob descended on the Capitol. Deceived by the former president into believing the election had been stolen from them, these insurrectionists were armed, angry and pointed in our direction. They beat Capitol and Metropolitan police…

Los Angeles Times

Tamil Nadu CM Stalin greets India’s 15th President of India Droupadi Murmu

“Your election conveys nation’s trust in democracy,” CM Stalin says in a letter to the newly-elected President after she assumed office on Monday

The Hindu

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Japanese foreign minister: executions will further isolate Myanmar

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Monday that the Myanmar junta's execution of four democracy activists will further isolate Myanmar in the international community, and is a matter of deep concern.

Reuters

Myanmar carries out its first executions in decades, including democracy activists

Those executed were a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men accused of violence after the country's takeover by the military last year.

WEKU

Factbox-The activists put to death by Myanmar's military rulers

Myanmar's military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out "terror acts" in opposition to last year's army coup against an elected government.

Reuters

Myanmar junta executes 4 prisoners, including 2 pro-democracy rivals

YANGON: Myanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media said Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar executes NLD lawmaker, 3 other political opponents

Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years with the hangings of a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men convicted of targeted violence after the military takeover last year

The Independent UK

Myanmar junta puts four democracy activists to death in first executions in decades

Among those executed was former hip-hop artist and ousted MP Phyo Zeya Thaw, who has close ties to Australia and whose death has sent a ripple of shock through the diaspora community here.

ABC News

Myanmar junta kills 4 democracy activists in first executions in decades

The UN and rights groups condemned the executions of the activists including a former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party.

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Bangkok Post

Myanmar junta executes four democracy activists

Myanmar's military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out "terror acts", state media said on Monday, the first executions in Myanmar in decades.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar executes four anti-coup activists, drawing outrage

Reported executions mark first use of capital punishment in the Southeast Asian country since the 1980s.

Reuters

Reaction to Myanmar's execution of four democracy activists

Myanmar's military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out "terror acts", state media said on Monday, the Southeast Asian nation's first executions in decades.

France 24

Myanmar executes democracy activists in new turn against dissent

Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, state media said Monday, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades.

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Reuters

World condemns Myanmar junta for 'cruel' execution of activists

Myanmar's ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding "terror acts", sparking widespread condemnation of the country's first executions in decades.

Reuters

Tunisia's Saied unpicks young 'Arab spring' democracy

Most photographs of Tunisian President Kais Saied on his official social media feed show him behind his desk with mouth open, lecturing a procession of subdued, deferential subordinates.

Reuters

Tunisia's Saied holds referendum, critics fear for democracy

Tunisians voted on Monday on a new constitution which critics of President Kais Saied fear will dismantle the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution by handing him nearly total power.

Newsroom.co.nz

Independence, not neutrality, for NZ foreign policy

NZ's foreign policy faces scrutiny amidst global insecurity - but we cannot sit on the sidelines.

Axios

Liz Cheney: Protecting U.S. democracy is bigger than keeping House seat

"I'm going to choose the constitution and the truth every single day."

The Guardian - US

‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy

Trump’s efforts to subvert the elections laid bare the system’s weaknesses, exposing it to greater exploitation

The Hindu

Call for opposition parties to unite to defeat fascist forces

Aim is to save the country, it’s diversity, Constitution and democracy, says DMK MLA

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