Tag: Democracy

Trump promises ‘help is on its way’ and tells Iranians ...

US president gives clearest signal yet that he might take military action agains...

Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely dec...

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the abs...

Twenty-two Labour councils set to delay local elections

Councils in favour of postponing election until next year are all in areas where...

Six dead in Iran after Tehran launches violent crackdow...

Riot squads open fire on demonstrators and carry out mass arrests on fifth day o...

Reform UK takes aim at Labour’s plan to delay local ele...

Farage’s party hopes to force Commons vote on bill ordering government to hold c...

Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet r...

Africa was hit by a record number of digital shutdowns in 2025 that stifled oppo...

Iranian boxing champion at imminent risk of execution a...

Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, 30, was arrested in 2020 for taking part in nationwi...

Eureka Stockade

3 December 1854

Lammy to scrap juries for most crimes, despite calling ...

Fears for principles of justice after reforms that mean judges will preside alon...

Crackdown on popular dissent in Tanzania as sham electi...

Tanzania's election is a coronation, not a poll, amid brutal crackdown with troo...

‘Best is yet to come,’ says Cameroon’s president, 92

Paul Biya is the latest elderly African leader to cling on to power with eighth ...

Five years on, Hong Kong’s national security law exting...

Five years on, Hong Kong’s national security law extinguishes another pro-democr...