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Election watchdogs say Koch’s about face after pledging change following January 6 is disturbing given the threats to democracy

A high-ranking delegation from the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee held meetings with Sudanese authorities and civil society groups in Khartoum on Thursday. The delegation renewed support for all parties to the crisis to resume the process of transition towards democracy. The EU delegation also called for bringing all perpetrators…

It is understood that John Harding, Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill were set free alongside Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin.

More and more Republican candidates are in effect inviting their supporters to contest electoral losses in the streets

Respected, decorated, widely influential generals in the Army of the Punditocracy have kicked open the fire doors on this topic, and the alarms are blaring.

The Prime Minister is to tell world leaders in a United Nations speech that they cannot be complacent.

Perhaps it’s some consolation to know the U.S. isn’t the only democracy in jeopardy. But that doesn’t change the fact that none of this is good.

China said it has the patience to someday bring Taiwan under its control, partly because “compatriots” there want it to happen -- a view that contrasts with polling showing sceptical views of Beijing in the democracy.

Victorian Liberal Party politician Cathrine Burnett-Wake, who was ousted at pre-selection by a candidate linked to a Pentecostal church, has lashed out at extremism in politics.