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8/11/2022 11:12:08 AM
Taiwan's army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its control.
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8/9/2022 11:51:44 AM
Taiwan's foreign minister said Tuesday that China is using military drills to rehearse an invasion of the self-governing island democracy, while Taiwan's military began its own live-fire exercises in a show of readiness to thwart off a potential attack.
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7/31/2022 5:31:21 PM
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, confirmed Sunday she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing, which claims the island democracy as its own territory.
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7/30/2022 1:08:07 PM
China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the U.S. House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory.
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7/21/2022 9:51:25 PM
A Sudanese pro-democracy protester was shot dead Thursday during rallies against a military power-grab, taking the toll of those killed in crackdowns since the army takeover to 115, medics said.
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7/17/2022 8:12:27 PM
Police fired tear gas in Sudan's capital Khartoum Sunday against hundreds of pro-democracy protesters who also called attention to increasingly deadly tribal clashes in the country's south.
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Africa
7/17/2022 12:58:22 PM
Sudanese police and soldiers deployed in large numbers Sunday across the capital Khartoum, ahead of mass protests planned by pro-democracy groups.
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7/11/2022 1:53:12 PM
Organisers of Khartoum's sit-ins, begun 10 days ago to force Sudan's army to return power to civilians, announced Monday that they had dismantled two of their four camps.
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6/8/2022 5:22:52 PM
Talks aiming at ending Sudan's ongoing political deadlock began Wednesday, the United Nations said, although the country's main pro-democracy alliance is boycotting them over a continued police crackdown on those protesting last October's military take over.
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5/29/2022 1:06:51 PM
The UN envoy for Sudan on Sunday decried the killing of two people in a violent crackdown against pro-democracy protesters who once again took to the streets of the capital to denounce an October military takeover .
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/28/2022 5:00:00 PM
The killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while reporting on Israeli military raids in the West Bank has dealt a severe blow to Israel’s image as a democracy, and shattered illusions for a genuine Middle East peace probably forever.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/25/2022 11:39:00 AM
Wafd’s Yasser Qoura tells Gamal Essam El Din how the liberal party sees the national Dialogue.
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5/9/2022 10:19:30 PM
The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States' longest war, in Afghanistan.
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5/8/2022 2:29:29 PM
John Lee, a hard-line security chief who oversaw a crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, was elected as the city's next leader on Sunday in a vote cast by a largely pro-Beijing committee.
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4/25/2022 12:11:40 AM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says that with the victory of Emmanuel Macron as projected by polling agencies, ``Democracy wins, Europe wins.''
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
4/19/2022 10:03:41 PM
“When you observe the hysteria that has swept American political circles and their media, you realise that McCarthyism was not an anomaly in American thought which otherwise believes in freedom and democracy. It is an ingrained trend in American society.”
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4/15/2022 1:24:20 PM
China said its military staged exercises Friday to reinforce its threat to use force to bring Taiwan under its control, as US lawmakers visiting Taiwan made a pointed and public declaration of their support for the self-governing island democracy while issuing a warning to China.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
4/7/2022 12:41:00 PM
Abdel-Moneim Said reads John Mearsheimer in the light of the Ukraine war
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2/23/2022 10:46:48 PM
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that Russian aggression toward Ukraine is ``an attack on democracy,'' vowing that the US will stand united with its allies around the world in swiftly imposing sanctions on Russia and ensuring financial and political support for an independent Ukraine.
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2/17/2022 11:09:29 PM
Libyans on Thursday marked 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the democracy many hoped for seems as elusive as ever, and many fear a return to conflict.
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