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Narendra Modi was sworn in Sunday for a rare third consecutive term as India’s prime minister, relying on his coalition partners after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome. Modi and his cabinet ministers took the oath of office, administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at India’s presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The 73-year-old popular but polarising leader is only the second Indian prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to retain power for a third five-year term. His Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which won by landslides in 2014...
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The elections to the European Parliament are kicking off on Thursday with polling stations in the Netherlands opening their doors. Over the next three days, the other 26 member states will progressively follow suit, producing a cross-border democratic exercise that will culminate on Sunday night, when the picture of the new hemicycle is expected to emerge. The occasion comes at a precarious, uncertain time for the bloc, which in the span of a few years has been hit with back-to-back, make-or-break crises that have profoundly reshaped its policies, defied its old-age beliefs and deepened its ex...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States vowed Tuesday to never stop promoting human rights in China 35 years after the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, as the protest movement's exiled leaders pleaded for action to help keep the memory alive. With China meticulously censoring any mention of the 1989 student uprising -- a blackout increasingly extended to once-open Hong Kong -- Tiananmen Square veterans commemorated the anniversary overseas, including in the United States and Taiwan. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken -- who has visited Beijing twice since last year as he sought to ease ten...
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Around 43% of Ukrainians think that the state of democracy worsened during the five-year tenure of President Volodymyr Zelensky, with 11% linking it to circumstances of wartime and 28% blaming the authorities, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on June 4. Some 3% of those who think the situation deteriorated blamed both the war and the authorities. About 19% of respondents think that the state of democracy has improved over the past five years, while 29% see no change. The results of the survey stand in contrast to observations by Freedom Ho...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Around 43% of Ukrainians think that the state of democracy worsened during the five-year tenure of President Volodymyr Zelensky, with 11% linking it to circumstances of wartime and 28% blaming the authorities, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on June 4. Some 3% of those who think the situation deteriorated blamed both the war and the authorities. About 19% of respondents think that the state of democracy has improved over the past five years, while 29% see no change. The results of the survey stand in contrast to observations by Freedom Ho...
Kyiv Independent
Around 43% of Ukrainians think that the state of democracy worsened during the five-year tenure of President Volodymyr Zelensky, with 11% linking it to circumstances of wartime and 28% blaming the authorities, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on June 4. Some 3% of those who think the situation deteriorated blamed both the war and the authorities. About 19% of respondents think that the state of democracy has improved over the past five years, while 29% see no change. The results of the survey stand in contrast to observations by Freedom Ho...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Ahead of June's vote, Euronews asks MEP candidates and EU citizens what their priorities are for the European Parliament elections. This episode focuses on political literacy and democracy. Stay tuned as Euronews will publish more statements every day. Watch the video above to find out more.
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Former US president Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a hush money scheme to influence the result of the 2016 election. He is the first ever former president to be found guilty of felony crimes in America’s almost 250-year history. He was accused of concealing a payment made by his former lawyer to former adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about an alleged sexual encounter ahead of the presidential election. The District Attorney's office alleged Trump falsely recorded reimbursements made to his former layer Michael Cohen for t...
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Washington (AFP) - He still refuses to acknowledge his defeat four years ago, so it is no great surprise that Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to contest another election if he loses again. But the stream of ambitious Republicans joining him in declining to commit to the outcome is raising concerns of a repeat of the chaos around 2020 as America prepares for a rematch between Trump and Joe Biden in November. Many have designs on the vice president's job, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who told NBC on Sunday he would not accept an "unfair" election and accused Democrats of having ...
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It comes as the bloc braces itself for a potential wave of disinformation in the run up to June’s European elections, and amid fears it is profoundly unprepared to tackle new forms of hybrid warfare. In a speech delivered at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Tuesday morning, von der Leyen said she was "concerned" about the rise of disinformation and foreign interference in Europe, warning that the "core tenets of our democracy" were under attack. Speaking in her capacity as lead candidate for the centre-right European People's Party (EPP)- which is topping the pan-EU poll - she promised to se...
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