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A demonstrator gestures trying to stop riot police during an opposition protest against "the Russian law" near the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Thousands of people rallied in Georgia for weeks against the foreign influence bill. Critics compared it to similar legislation Russia uses to stifle dissent, and they worried it would jeopardize Georgia's prospects of joining the European Union. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze, File)

As Georgia presses on with ‘Russia-style’ laws, its citizens describe a country on the brink

By Joanna Kozlowska - Associated Press

Presidential candidate Anta Babacar Ngom greets supporters during her electoral campaign caravan in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decades long campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal votes Sunday in a presidential election that has fired up political tensions

By Jessica Donati - Associated Press

This handout photo from the Viasna Human Rights Center shows Belarusian Uladzislau Beladzed, 33, teacher of the catechism at the Minsk city's Cathedral of the Holy Name of the Saint Virgin Mary. A Catholic activist in Belarus was convicted on charges of insulting the president and inciting social discord and was handed a three-year prison sentence on Friday. (Viasna Human Rights Center via AP)

A Catholic activist in Belarus is handed a 3-year sentence as a crackdown on dissent intensifies

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Hong Kong's Secretary for Security Chris Tang speaks during a press conference at government headquarters in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent

By Kanis Leung and Zen Soo - Associated Press

Bangladeshi polling officials count votes after the voting ended at a polling station in Munshiganj, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Hasina is set to stay in power in Bangladesh after opposition boycotts election, saying it’s unfair

By Krutika Pathi and Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Hungarian-American investor and CEU founder George Soros attends a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, June 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop, File)

George Soros’ Open Society Foundations to significantly curtail work in Europe, lay off staff

By Thalia Beaty - Associated Press

Illustration on the corruption of American institutions (schools, Congress, military) by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Effects of government corruption on democratic republics

By Richard W. Rahn

Workers are seen in Ninh Binh Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant to supply electricity, in Ninh Binh Province in Vietnam, on Sept. 19, 2007. The German said Wednesday, June 7, 2023, that it is concerned by the recent detention of a prominent environmental campaigner in Vietnam, warning that a recent multi-billion-dollar deal to help the country phase out coal use requires the involvement of civil society activists. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

Germany alarmed by detention of Vietnam climate activist, warns on coal phase-out pact with Hanoi

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich is shown in this undated photo. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeated his call for Russia to immediately release Gershkovich on Wednesday at NATO headquarters following two days of talks among the alliance's foreign ministers. Russia accuses Gershkovich of espionage, a claim Americans deny. (The Wall Street Journal via AP, File)

Russian journalists demand the release of Evan Gershkovich in open letter

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Cans of Coca-Cola are on display at a grocery market in Uniontown, Pa., on April 24, 2022. The soft drink giant's sponsorship of the flagship U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, sparked an online backlash and highlighted broader concerns about corporate lobbying and influence. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

COP27’s Coke sponsorship leaves bad taste with green groups

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane, some climbing on the plane, as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

‘Promises are being broken’ as U.S. strands Afghan allies

By Stephen Dinan and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Muslims perform Friday prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a Grand mosque in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Hundreds arrested after anti-government protests in Chad

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to his ruling party's lawmakers, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Dec. 23. 2020. Turkey’s president has lashed out against the European Court of Human Rights after its ruling that Turkey must immediately release a prominent Kurdish politician. Speaking to his ruling party lawmakers Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called imprisoned politician Selahattin Demirtas a “terrorist” and accused the European court of “defending a terrorist.” (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkish lawmakers pass bill monitoring civil society groups

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Illustration on the singularity of the American vote by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Latest election reaffirms the strength of American exceptionalism

By Richard W. Graber

UN defeats Russia resolution promoting women at peace tables

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Doug Porteous, 57, carries two trays of food with Manuel Watkins, 54, standing by door of the men's homeless shelter at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, Wis. Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Both are homeless but also volunteer at the shelter. Watkins' wife was spending the night at the shelter for women and families on the other side of the city's Capitol Square.(John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

America must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a united ‘civil society’

By Kay C. James

'A Time to Build' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Time to Build’

By Aram Bakshian Jr.

Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Moise said Friday he wanted a new constitution to stipulate that presidential proposals would automatically pass if the National Assembly did not vote them up or down within 60 days. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haitian president lays out terms for deal with opposition

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Egypt acquits 43 NGO workers on illegal funding charges

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

In this photo taken Friday, March 24, 2017, Lee Ching-yu, third from right holds up a photo of her missing husband and Taiwanese pro-democracy activist Lee Ming-che during a press conference with other representatives of non-governmental organizations calling for help to find his whereabouts in Taipei, Taiwan. Lee believed to be in Chinese custody may have attracted the attention of China's security services after he used the social media site WeChat to discuss China-Taiwan relations, a colleague said Tuesday. Chinese characters on cards read &quot;Finding Lee Ming-che&quot; (AP Photo)

China confirms detention of Taiwanese pro-democracy activist

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and RALPH JENNINGS - Associated Press