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Turkey's opposition alliance has vowed to reverse many of President Tayyip Erdogan's policies if elected in a May 14 election, including a return to a parliamentary democracy and economic orthodoxy, and a major shift in foreign policy.

Current campaign financing drives corruption and ill-advised loyalties to political action committees, a reader from Merrionette Park writes. Politicians should be paying attention to the will of their constituents but instead are too often beholden to their heavy contributors.

Hong Kong police seized an exhibit on Friday in connection with what they said was an attempt to incite subversion, with media reporting it was a statue commemorating Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy protesters in 1989.

'Today has been a dark day for British democracy'

Brandon Johnson on Tuesday will be in Charlotte to speak to the Democracy Alliance. Wednesday, in Washington he will meet with the Illinois congressional delegation and other federal officials.

It is now compulsory to show photo identification when voting

It has been compulsory to show photo identification when voting.

Extremist Hellenes party dubbed successor of now defunct Golden Dawn, whose neo-Nazi leaders are serving jail terms

Britain doesn't need kings and queens, we should go the whole hog and elect our head of state, says Paul Routledge