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Hong Kong police detain more than 20 on Tiananmen anniversary

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police on Sunday detained more than 20 people, including key pro-democracy figures trying to commemorate the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, as hundreds in Taiwan mourned the dead with a vigil.

Bangkok Post

China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong

China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests.

WEKU

The Delhi ordinance is an unabashed power-grab

The ordinance raises multiple legal and political questions regarding federalism, democracy, bureaucratic accountability, executive law-making, and judicial review

The Hindu

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Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary

Hong Kong police have arrested several pro-democracy activists attempting to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square massacre.

Evening Standard

How AI could sabotage elections

AI designed in the future could have a deeply sinister objective: Change voting behavior, wreck democracy

Salon

Opposition leads anti-government march on day symbolizing Poland's democratic achievements

Poland’s largest opposition party is leading a march meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government, which it accuses of eroding democracy

The Independent UK

The Supermajority review: How the supreme court trumped America

Michael Waldman delivers a terrific if chilling account of how conservatives hijacked US democracy

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Has America been seduced by war again?

Ukraine has battled courageously — but the U.S. proxy war with Russia has nothing to do with defending democracy

Salon

Top US general awarded France's highest military honours

French President Emmanuel Macron has awarded France's highest medal of honour to the US Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, for his role in coordinating support for Ukraine and for his more than 40-year military career spent in defence of democracy.

Radio France Internationale

Kerala govt. criticises removal of the periodic table, other topics from NCERT Class X textbook

The Kerala government has criticised the removal of chapters on the Periodic Table and challenges to democracy, among other topics from Class 10 textbooks by the NCERT

The Hindu

Democracy on the line

As voters bite their nails and wait to see poll winner Move Forward, runner-up Pheu Thai and six other parties form the next government, junta-appointed senator Jadet Insawang has rained on the parade by proposing the idea of a "national government".

Bangkok Post

America is in danger from irrational thinking

Historically, democracy always has been sustained, and nurtured by rational deliberation. If our habits of communication don’t change, what happens to this great experiment we call the United States?

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Media must be more open to save democracy’, says former standards editor

Ex-New York Times ombudsman Margaret Sullivan says many people do not trust mainstream journalism

The Guardian - UK

How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy

Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways?

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Delhi Ordinance Row: "Congress has to decide if it is with democracy or PM Modi," remarks Arvind Kejriwal

Responding to a reporter's question on Congress' stand on the ordinance, Kejriwal said, "Today, the Congress has to decide whether it is with democracy, constitution, 140 croe people of the country or with Modi Ji". Read further on Dynamite News:

The Week

The big business of lobbying in Westminster

There is nothing inherently sinister about seeking to influence the people who write our laws; indeed, it’s a vital part of any democracy. Any citizen has the right to lobby an MP – the verb was coined to describe people who collared lawmakers in public lobbies such as Parliament’s. But…

Salon

The US could learn a lot from Ukraine

Ukraine's “deoligarchization” efforts look to be a great success

The Independent UK

Amid shrinking freedoms, Hong Kongers commemorate Tiananmen anniversary privately

As the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches Sunday, many in Hong Kong are trying to mark the day in the shadow of a law that prosecuted leading activists in the city’s pro-democracy movement

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The Week

Tate Britain rehang: a major reshuffle of its free displays

“For the first time in a decade”, Tate Britain has rehung its free displays, said Eloise Hendy in The Independent. The museum boasts “the most comprehensive collection of British art in the world”, making the task of rearranging and in some cases replacing the 800 works on display – spanning…

The Hindu

Govt. is working to build developed India by 2047: Rajnath Singh

In an address at an event, Mr. Singh also noted that when India emerges as a superpower, it will have to ensure that universal values like democracy, religious freedom, dignity of human beings and global peace are established all over the world.

The Independent UK

US, Taiwan sign trade deal over China's opposition

The United States has signed a trade agreement with Taiwan over opposition from China, which claims the self-ruled island democracy as part of its territory

The Hindu

Political parties will snipe, but there is a limit, says RSS chief

Political parties will criticise each other in a democracy but there must be a limit to everything, said Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

EC urged to speed up probe into MFP leader

A group of political activists calling themselves Love Democracy on Thursday petitioned the Election Commission (EC) to speed up the probe into Move Forward Party (MFP) leader Pita Limjaroenrat's alleged ineligibility to run in the election.

The Guardian - US

The debt ceiling fight was never about debt. It was about Republican power

In a democracy, this type of extortion should not be permitted – but Republican rule isn’t based on democracy

The Hindu

In ‘rationalisation’ move, NCERT drops periodic table chapter from Class X book

NCERT has decided to omit chapters on the periodic table from Class 10 Science textbooks and chapters on democracy and political parties from Political Science textbooks

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