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The United States accused Russia on Thursday of planning to short-circuit Ukrainian democracy by forcing the government from power and dismantling local authorities.

Ministers will now be able to direct the election watchdog’s priorities and control the committee that scrutinises it

At Ohio rally, Trump drums up hatred against "sick, sinister and evil people" — by which he means you and me

Vladimir Putin sent up a missile this week, and Florida's governor just had to shoot off one of his own

In a rousing win for New York’s voters, the state’s highest court invalidated the twisted district maps drawn by the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority to help their party for the next decade. Answering the calls of this page and the League of Women Voters, the Court of Appeals (where all seven…

The Museum of Australian Democracy reopens at Old Parliament House after months of repairs to the historical building.

In separate letters, legislators and advocacy groups ask Biden administration to do more to protect Tunisian democracy.

Old Parliament House will open to the public four months after it was set on fire by protesters, but restoration work is still on-going.

‘We only seek democracy in the political space, but we also need social and economic democracy’

Generations of dignitaries, including three U.S. presidents, gathered Wednesday to remember the late Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Sudanese authorities released two outspoken former government officials from prison, lawyers said Wednesday, part of trust-building measures amid efforts to end the country’s political impasse. Sudan was plunged into turmoil after an October military coup upended its short-lived transition to democracy after three decades of repressive rule by former president…