Uganda dissidents on trial
Kampala (aFP) — The trials of two Ugandan government critics were set to resume Tuesday, with President Yoweri Museveni silent while his son cracks down on…
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Kampala (aFP) — The trials of two Ugandan government critics were set to resume Tuesday, with President Yoweri Museveni silent while his son cracks down on…
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Forget what we have been taught in school that in a democracy, there are checks and balances. These days, they are called transactions.
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But Duterte’s camp won’t outright admit these political ploys, much less admit their fear of what the trial will reveal about the Veep’s baggage of…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A court sentenced a former South Korean justice minister on Monday to 25 years in prison for his role in ex-President Yoon Suk…
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia (AFP) — A flamboyant United States-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s polarizing presidential runoff…
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Starmer — in office since July 2024 — conceded he had lost the support of his Labor party.
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Through horse-trading maneuvers, it would attempt to woo the allegiance of the Villar siblings and perhaps even Sen. Loren Legarda, who appears to be among the…
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How political lies became today’s consequential ‘triumphant disaster’ predictably will soon preoccupy our historians and social scientists.
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Could fresh linguistic constructs outmaneuver the true intent and purpose of what ‘the majority of all its members’ means in the constitutional text?
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Malacañang is bent on doing anything it can to convict and disqualify Vice President Sara Duterte from holding public office.
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The Senate is currently paralyzed by the dual claims of leadership, threats to the security of its members due to gunfire and arrest warrants from the ICC, and…
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Where does a fully grown man, a lawyer, and long-time political animal get the notion that by putting everyone in a state of discomfort, they would comply with…
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The Senate never ceases to humor us, to walk us through some labyrinthine passageway which looks more like it is leading to an escape rather than to freedom.
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Democracies do not erode only when courts are abolished or Congress is shut down. They also erode when institutions remain intact but are used so selectively…
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The past three weeks in the Senate have offered a depressing masterclass on both. We have seen clowning, grandstanding, and the sort of chest-thumping nonsense…
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The logic is simple and seductive: For us to win, they must lose. It is the play that drives partisan warfare.
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Not surprisingly, in front of crowds, fans and media, politicians, in the company of actors and actresses, become promotional events.
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