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Lowest Turnout More Than Your Highest: S Jaishankar On West's Poll Critique
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar slammed Western media, emphasising that they criticise our democracy because they think they are also political players in our election and not because they lack information.
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China Defends Arrest Of Hong Kong Catholic Cleric As Western Alarm Grows
Retired cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, was among a group of veteran democracy advocates arrested yesterday for "colluding with foreign forces".
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China "Playing" Democracies Against Each Other: Canadian Prime Minister
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a year-end interview with local media said Western democracies must stand together against a China he says has been "playing us off each other."
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Biden Invites 110 Countries Including India To Virtual Democracy Summit
President Joe Biden has invited around 110 countries to a virtual summit on democracy in December, including major Western allies but also Iraq, India and Pakistan, according to a list posted on the State Department website on Tuesday.
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Iran President Says Western Democracy "Fragile" After US Capitol Siege
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that the chaos unleashed on the US Capitol by US counterpart Donald Trump's supporters exposed the fragility of Western democracy.
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John Kerry Warns OSCE Of Rise In 'Authoritarian Populism'
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of "the danger of authoritarian populism" sweeping many Western democracies and cautioned against backsliding on basic freedoms.
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Far Right Has Second Chance In Austrian Presidential Election
Austria will provide a new gauge of the populist wave sweeping Western democracies on Sunday, as the divided country holds an election that could deliver the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two.
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Kairana Mass Migration: BJP Promises Action After Probe By Party Team
Political temperature over reports of migration of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh is all set to rise in the run-up to next year's Assembly polls with BJP today terming it as "not good" for democracy and promising "proper action" after probe by a party team into the "very sensitive matter".
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Pope Francis Criticises West For Trying To Export Own Brand Of Democracy To Iraq, Libya
Pope Francis criticised Western powers for trying to export their own brand of democracy to countries such as Iraq and Libya without respecting indigenous political cultures, according to an interview published on Monday.
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Chinese Party Newspaper Says Western Democracy Only Brings Chaos
China's top newspaper on Monday warned against aping Western-style democracy just a week after the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, pointing to Thailand and Ukraine as examples of the kind of chaos the system can bring.
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Myanmar verifying Muslim citizenship
Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at settling an explosive question at the heart of the biggest crisis the government has faced since beginning its nascent transition to democracy last year.
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Internet censorship on the rise in India: Google
The trend of blockage were increasing from governments round the world, more surprisingly from Western democracies, the internet giant said.
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Myanmar's historic polls: Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is poised to win her first elected office in a landmark election Sunday in Myanmar that drew crowds of voters determined to send the country's most famous ex-political prisoner to parliament. A victory for Suu Kyi would mark a new era in her 24-year political career, which was spent mostly under house arrest, and fo...
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Lowest Turnout More Than Your Highest: S Jaishankar On West's Poll Critique
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar slammed Western media, emphasising that they criticise our democracy because they think they are also political players in our election and not because they lack information.
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China Defends Arrest Of Hong Kong Catholic Cleric As Western Alarm Grows
Retired cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, was among a group of veteran democracy advocates arrested yesterday for "colluding with foreign forces".
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China "Playing" Democracies Against Each Other: Canadian Prime Minister
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a year-end interview with local media said Western democracies must stand together against a China he says has been "playing us off each other."
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Biden Invites 110 Countries Including India To Virtual Democracy Summit
President Joe Biden has invited around 110 countries to a virtual summit on democracy in December, including major Western allies but also Iraq, India and Pakistan, according to a list posted on the State Department website on Tuesday.
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Iran President Says Western Democracy "Fragile" After US Capitol Siege
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that the chaos unleashed on the US Capitol by US counterpart Donald Trump's supporters exposed the fragility of Western democracy.
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John Kerry Warns OSCE Of Rise In 'Authoritarian Populism'
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of "the danger of authoritarian populism" sweeping many Western democracies and cautioned against backsliding on basic freedoms.
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Far Right Has Second Chance In Austrian Presidential Election
Austria will provide a new gauge of the populist wave sweeping Western democracies on Sunday, as the divided country holds an election that could deliver the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two.
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Kairana Mass Migration: BJP Promises Action After Probe By Party Team
Political temperature over reports of migration of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh is all set to rise in the run-up to next year's Assembly polls with BJP today terming it as "not good" for democracy and promising "proper action" after probe by a party team into the "very sensitive matter".
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Pope Francis Criticises West For Trying To Export Own Brand Of Democracy To Iraq, Libya
Pope Francis criticised Western powers for trying to export their own brand of democracy to countries such as Iraq and Libya without respecting indigenous political cultures, according to an interview published on Monday.
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Chinese Party Newspaper Says Western Democracy Only Brings Chaos
China's top newspaper on Monday warned against aping Western-style democracy just a week after the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, pointing to Thailand and Ukraine as examples of the kind of chaos the system can bring.
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Myanmar verifying Muslim citizenship
Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at settling an explosive question at the heart of the biggest crisis the government has faced since beginning its nascent transition to democracy last year.
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Internet censorship on the rise in India: Google
The trend of blockage were increasing from governments round the world, more surprisingly from Western democracies, the internet giant said.
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Myanmar's historic polls: Aung San Suu Kyi poised to win
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is poised to win her first elected office in a landmark election Sunday in Myanmar that drew crowds of voters determined to send the country's most famous ex-political prisoner to parliament. A victory for Suu Kyi would mark a new era in her 24-year political career, which was spent mostly under house arrest, and fo...
