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Happy Children’s Day 2024: Messages and heartfelt wishes for kids
In India, November 14 is celebrated as Children’s Day to honour the birthday of the country’s first…
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Trump's former Pentagon chief Mark Esper tells Fox News that the ex-president 'threatens our democracy'
Esper on Monday characterized Trump as a threat to US democracy — a remarkable rebuke of a pr…
John Haltiwanger
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The US became a 'backsliding democracy' in 2020 and 'fell victim to authoritarian tendencies': report
The report raised particular concerns about anti-democratic behavior by Donald Trump, warning of "s…
John Haltiwanger
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Afghanistan's last finance minister who now drives for Uber said America's fight for democracy and human rights in his home country was a 'pretense'
"Maybe there were good intentions initially, but the United States probably didn't mean this," Afgh…
Katie Balevic
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Trump accused of undermining US democracy by international elections watchdog
The OSCE criticised Trump's bid to undermine postal ballots, and the president's use of "discrimina…
Tom Porter
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Biden said America's survival depends on proving to China that democracy can outpace autocracy
"If we go four more years like we had in the last four, I really, honest to God, believe we're in r…
John Haltiwanger
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People in Myanmar are using trash to protest as the death toll climbs to more than 500
Trash was piled high in the streets of Myanmar's main city on Tuesday as demonstrators held a serie…
Erin Snodgrass
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The president of Tunisia - the only lasting democracy after the Arab Spring - fired the prime minister and suspended parliament
Tunisian President Kais Saied fired Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and froze parliament for 30 days…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Trump's final year in office was the worst for global democracy in a decade and a half, watchdog says
Less than 20% of the world's population "now lives in a Free country," a new report on global democ…
John Haltiwanger
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World leaders are worried Trump 'permanently' damaged democracy, EU chief says
"Images like we saw a few weeks ago, when an angry mob stormed the Capitol, were beyond my imaginat…
John Haltiwanger
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A creepy presidential debate ad shows a deepfake of Putin telling Americans they're ruining their own democracy
In an ad campaign from non-profit RepresentUs, deepfakes of Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin warn Ame…
Palmer Haasch
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Biden says 'hate just hides under rocks' and 'when people come along and breathe oxygen into it, it comes roaring back out'
"I used to think that you could defeat hate," said Biden in an interview with historian Heather Cox…
Bryan Metzger
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Myanmar's military has already replaced ministry officials as citizens feel the 'hard-fought battle for democracy' has been lost
The military has already announced replacements for 11 of the 24 ministers and deputies that have b…
Erin Snodgrass
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Boris Johnson's failure to release report on Russian election interference is an 'affront to democracy' say opponents
A cross-party group of MPs have written to Prime Minister Johnson urging him to publish the report …
Adam Payne
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The world's largest democracy is heading toward modern-day fascism
On December 11, India's parliament passed an amendment to its Citizenship Act of 1955, which sets o…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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'This is not American democracy as people normally see it': BBC presenter delivers a brutal assessment of Trump's behavior as election votes are being counted in the US
"International election observers are accusing the president of a gross abuse of office," BBC prese…