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Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
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A student visa capped at four years. A journalist visa at eight months. A Chinese correspondent at just 90 days. Trump's new rules are rewriting who gets to study and report in America — and for how long. The world is pushing back hard.
He served every day of his five-year sentence for nothing more than art and protest — and still isn't free. Cuba is silent. Rights groups are alarmed. What is really happening to one of the island's most prominent dissidents?
In Uganda, a case against two women arrested after kissing in public has been quietly dropped. The reversal is a rare turn under one of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, long criticised for fueling fear, stigma, blackmail and abuse.
A by-election in Kenya turned violent on Thursday, with journalists targeted. The interior minister points to the police as a partial culprit, but the incident mainly underlines the threat of violence during next year's general election.
Protests have broken out in Ukraine over the sacking of the defence minister, who has only been on post for six months. This eclipsed the appointment of Serhii Koretskyi as the new prime minister, all part of a wider cabinet reshuffle by President Zelensky.
The EU’s top court ruling that the controversial amnesty of Catalan separatists does not violate key provisions of the bloc’s law, bringing pro-independence leader Carles Puigdemont closer to returning to Spain after years on the run.
Following intense debate, France has passed a law on assisted dying. An interdisciplinary panel reviews each application and medical professionals may refuse to take part on grounds of conscience.
Two independent bookshops were raided with multiple arrests made in Hong Kong for selling books with "seditious intention" under the city's national security law. This incident is already the third time this year independent booksellers have been targeted.
Counter-terrorism police continue to quiz a man being held on suspicion of murdering veteran politician Ann Widdecombe. Outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said more needs to be done to defend democracy in the wake of the murder.
An Iranian man who took part in the anti-government protests was executed by hanging in the latest example of the violent repression by the government, which has cost the lives of many thousands.
