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A Hong Kong court on Tuesday began to hear pleas for lenient sentences from some prominent pro-democracy activists who were found guilty in the city’s biggest national security case and now face up to life in prison

Polarization is both essential to a functioning democracy and a threat to it.

A year into his administration, Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the National Anthem Bill into law, replacing an anthem adopted in 1978 with its predecessor. The decision generated debate among Nigerians, some of whom felt it did not rank on the list of social, economic and security challenges confronting…

Independent media alliance says news ban would be ‘terrible for not only the industry but also for Australian democracy’

Past politicians tried to undermine democracy. They failed because Americans refused to tolerate their wrongdoing

Sky News presenter tells Gove: ‘It’s a democracy. If they’ve been given a mandate, they’re not rigging the system’

The son of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "concerned" about her health, he told AFP on Wednesday, as the Nobel laureate turned 79, passing another birthday in military detention.

One of Australia’s most iconic living memes, Jack Karlson, AKA Mr Democracy Manifest, will soon have his bizarre story memorialised (even more) with a new documentary: The Man Who Ate A Succulent Chinese Meal. As if the millions of memes about him weren’t enough to solidify his status as a…

Report finds ‘alarming’ rise in extremism, with Islamist groups and cyber-attacks also posing dangers