Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
Critics say Myanmar's new legislature is simply an effort to legitimize military rule after a 2021 coup which triggered widespread opposition and dragged the country into a civil war.
Both the far right and far left did well in the first round of municpal elections in France . Much now depends on the complicated alliance building before the second round run-offs on March 22.
A new five-year plan has been passed by China's People's Congress focusing on tech as expected. It also passed an ethnic unity law, mandating the use of Mandarin in schools and other measures. Rights activists say it could lead to further restrictions on ethnic minorities.
Senegal provided further evidence of broad African opposition to homosexuality when its parliament passed stiffer penalties for same-sex relations. The measure still has to be signed into law and is likely to draw opposition the country's European allies.
Washington has expanded its ban on the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization to include Sudan. The decision was immediately welcomed by the United Arab Emirates, a key US ally in the Middle East, which is accused of backing Sudan's RSF rebels.
Karin Prien, German minister for women's rights, slammed the US for failing to support an opening declaration at a UN conference on the status of women. Her remarks followed those of fellow-German Annalena Baerbock who called for the next UN chief to be a woman.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who spent 14 years in the US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, is at the centre of a legal tussle with the German city of Duisburg over a ban. He was freed without being charged in 2016 and subsequently alleged torture by his US captors.
A legal dispute in Bulgaria has led the European Court of Justice to rule that transgender people have a right in the European Union to identity documents that reflect their lived gender identity. The decision now goes back to the Bulgarian courts.
Hereditary peers will lose their seats in the House of Lords before the next King's Speech. Until now, 92 hereditary peers have been allowed to sit in the chamber, with 84 taking their seats. Initial reform was agreed 25 years ago, and the new measure completes the process.
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has thrown out electoral reform proposed by President Sheinbaum's Morena, which failed to gain the requisite two-thirds majority. The president says she has an as-yet undefined Plan B up her sleeve. Opponents accuse Morena of seeking long-term rule.
