Taiwan’s new president Lai Ching-te has demanded Beijing stop threatening the island,while urging the world to see the protection of Taiwan’s democratic freedoms as essential to global peace.
Moscow uses similar legislation to crack down on independent news media,nonprofits and activists critical of the Kremlin,opposition says.
Heard the one about election officials using hidden graphite under their fingernails to change your vote?
Avani Dias,the ABC’s lead India correspondent,has returned to Australia after a campaign of intimidation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
The author of The Beach and director of Ex Machina has made a film about the collapse of democracy. It’s a harrowing vision but,he says,it needn’t come true.
The runner-up duo has now lodged legal action alleging Joko Widodo’s son was ineligible to run despite a court’s green light.
When I was working on a cruise ship,a noticeboard poster said it all:“Please remember that Americans consider it acceptable to brag about their kids. Australians do not.”
The unanimous decision from the nation’s highest court averts what could have been one of the most explosive moments in the 2024 presidential election.
Supporters gathered to bid farewell to Alexei Navalny at a funeral in Moscow following his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony.
Targeted sanctions should be used to put pressure on Cambodia’s human rights violators,especially those powerful figures who hold assets in Australia.
The Australian’s family has lost hope that the Chinese legal system can deliver justice to the pro-democracy writer.