Politics & Government News

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Moldova's President Maia Sandu has warned that her country’s democracy faces a “race against time” from what she said was attempts by Russia to influence parliamentary election this month

6:05 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An Associated Press analysis reveals that survivors of major natural disasters in the U.S. are waiting longer for federal aid

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President Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid than prior US presidents of either party, AP analysis finds

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to deliver a major state of the union speech on the challenges facing the world’s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them

5:14 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Egyptian state media reports prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah may be released from prison through a presidential pardon

5:08 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Two Philippine senators have been implicated in a massive corruption scandal involving flood-control projects

3:43 AM on Tuesday, September 9

A Hong Kong judge has ruled in favor of a lesbian couple’s parental recognition of their son born through reciprocal in vitro fertilization in a landmark case

2:53 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Nepal’s prime minister resigns following violent protests against ban on social media and government corruption

1:23 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a 2006 military coup

12:56 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Vanuatu is not ready to sign a security and economic treaty with Australia due to concerns about potential restrictions on securing infrastructure funding from other countries

10:22 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech

2:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are facing sharp criticism over the fatal stabbing of a young Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train last month

11:00 AM on Monday, September 8

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

2:52 AM on Monday, September 8

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived in Bangkok after a surprise departure to Dubai last week

11:07 AM on Monday, August 25