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Democracy’s Super Bowl: 40 elections that will shape global politics in 2024
From Russia to South Africa, India to the US, the coming year’s contests could embolden dictators or revitalis…
- Alexei Navalny, Asia Pacific, Europe, Focus, Human rights, Law, Maria Ressa, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Nobel peace prize, Philippines, Press freedom, Russia, World news
Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says …
- Asia Pacific, China, Focus, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Protest, Tiananmen Square protests 1989, World news
Jonathan Mirsky: reporter who went from Mao fan to fierce Beijing critic
The career of the Observer’s former China correspondent who died last week, was marked by a willingness to rev…
- Asia Pacific, China, Chinese economy, Communism, Focus, Mao Zedong, Tiananmen Square protests 1989, World news, Xi Jinping
The Chinese Communist party: 100 years that shook the world
As China marks the centenary of its ruling party, we examine key episodes in its tempestuous history, includin…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Focus, Israel, Libya, Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Syria, US foreign policy, US news, World news, Yemen
Wars without end: why is there no peaceful solution to so much global conflict?
A new study shows that 60% of the world’s wars have lasted for at least a decade. From Afghanistan to Libya, S…