We debate whether democracy is in peril across the world.
Politics
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Preliminary results show more than 65.2 percent in favour of allowing people with terminal illnesses to end their lives.
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White House notifies Congress of its intent to sell advanced fighter jets to the UAE, setting up a...
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Main US stock indexes gained on Thursday on blockbuster GDP numbers and ahead of tech giant earnings...
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‘Operation Fox Hunt’ allegedly involved threatening Chinese nationals and their families who were living in the US.
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Lebanon and Israel this month said they agreed to begin negotiations in what Washington hailed as a ‘historic’ move.
![President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday, June 29, 2019 [AP Photo/Susan Walsh]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_19180112244186.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Take explores how the presidential race could affect relations between the world’s biggest economies.
A look at shifting regional politics, and how Hamas is circumventing blockade of Gaza to develop military capability.
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And threatening to turn our lands into a toxic waste dump.
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Political bloc that led the country for 60 years until 2018 also said that it would not back Anwar Ibrahim.
![A man urges passersby to register to vote as demonstrators protest, on Thursday, June 4, 2020, near the White House in Washington over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis [AP Photo/Evan Vucci]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20156742384447.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Take hears from Americans casting their first votes in the 2020 election.
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How a 30-something Democrat and a 90-something Republican built a friendship based on curiosity, empathy and respect.
Democrats prepare a $350bn plan to confront China’s ‘predatory economic behaviour’.
![Women chant slogans in Khartoum to protest against the contentious decision of the president of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, to meet Israel's prime minister last February in a move towards normalising relations [File: Marwan Ali/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/bb6cd4f3065d4e1ca6fc0eff195f87ef_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Sudanese demonstrate in the capital against the deal that several parties say gov’t is not authorised to sign.