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Bodybuilding, fast cars and misogyny: Slovakia’s populist Robert Fico returns to power

A fan of Vladimir Putin and fast cars, Robert Fico should return as prime minister of Slovakia following parliamentary elections on Saturday. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the career of a politician who was ousted from power five years ago after a journalist was murdered for revealing government…

France 24

‘My Fears and Hatred’: Navalny lambasts the 1990s democrats of Russia

Jailed opposition leader slams those charged with rebuilding Russia’s politics and economy after the Soviet collapse.

Al Jazeera

Conflict over clocks: China among countries where time is political

Keeping of time in Asia has often been subject more to the geopolitics of time zones than considerations of geography.

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New Hampshire is sued over removal of marker dedicated to Communist Party leader

Supporters of a former historical marker dedicated to a feminist and labor activist from New Hampshire who also led the Communist Party have sued the state

The Independent UK

Milan Kundera's 'remarkable' work explored oppression, inhumanity – and the absurdity of being human

Milan Kundera, that remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking, writing and reading. In his literary presence, the world seemed tuned to a higher frequency.

The Conversation

A Kannadiga communist who was at the vanguard of peasant movement in Tamil land

The Hindu

Indonesian rights abuse compensation plan fans fears of impunity

Concerns compensation programme for victims of abuses from 1965 mass killings to Aceh conflict will hinder justice.

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Xi’s bet on Putin looks even more risky after Russian rebellion

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Xi Jinping’s gamble on a “no limits” friendship with Vladimir Putin has looked like it could backfire. This weekend’s brief uprising against Moscow again underscored the risks facing the Chinese leader.

Tribune News Service

China spinning a ‘web’ of influence campaigns to win over Taiwan

Away from the headline grabbing military threats, Beijing’s propaganda department is working to woo hearts and minds.

Al Jazeera

Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what's at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama's reincarnation?

In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country’s religious groups should practice their faiths.

The Conversation

AstraZeneca China boss pledges to ‘love the Communist Party’

BEIJING: The global drugmaker AstraZeneca will seek to be a patriotic company in China that “loves the Communist Party”, its China president said on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Historical marker dedicated to feminist, Communist Party leader removed in New Hampshire

A historical marker in New Hampshire dedicated to a feminist and labor activist who also led the Communist Party has been removed just two weeks after it was unveiled

The Independent UK

Sign of the times? History marker for communist draws anger

Republican officials in New Hampshire are objecting to a historical marker dedicated to labor activist who championed women’s rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, but who also led the Communist Party and was sent to prison

The Independent UK

Barred from polls, a Greek neo-Nazi seeks way back to politics

Ex-Golden Dawn member Ilias Kasidiaris launches a party before the May 21 vote, but the Supreme Court disqualifies it.

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‘Brothers in arms, a long way from home’: the first Australians to fight fascism overseas

The discovery of a rare photo from the Spanish civil war raises questions about why volunteers from Australia are not commemorated

The Conversation

Friday essay: Stan Grant on how tyrants use the language of germ warfare – and COVID has enabled them

It is 2019. There is a virus lurking in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is warning that if it is not contained, it could infect the entire country. It could turn the country upside down. Tear at the social fabric. The CCP’s dream of harmony cannot withstand this. So…

Bangkok Post

Any peaceful solutions to the conflict over Taiwan?

The conflict about the status of the island of Taiwan is once again featuring prominently in the news. The recent exercises by the military of the People's Republic of China around the island are raising tensions that have been latent since 1949. As the government of mainland China has been…

The Conversation

'Esterno Notte': Marco Bellochio's series grapples with ghost of assassinated Italian prime minister Aldo Moro

Central Rome, 9 May 1978. A crowd of curious passersby spills out by an open car boot. There lies the bullet-riddled body of Aldo Moro, Italy’s Prime Minister, parked mid-way between the party headquarters of the Christian Democrats and those of the Communist Party. The scene concludes 55 days of…

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel re-elected by lawmakers

Cuban lawmakers on Wednesday easily re-elected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

Reuters

Cuban President Diaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely expected to be chosen this week by assembly lawmakers to lead the country for another five years, despite a rocky first term marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a near-unprecedented economic crisis.

The Guardian - UK

How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state

Experts say Xu Zhiyong’s fate symbolises the rise and fall of China’s ill-fated rights movement

Los Angeles Times

Far-right media outlet targets LA's Asian business leaders. They're fighting back

Walter Wang was headed down Interstate 5 to a family get-together on March 13 when his phone dinged. A WhatsApp message flashed across the screen from an old friend in Taiwan posing a puzzling rhetorical question: Weren't he and his wife, Shirley, American citizens?

Los Angeles Times

They became friends protesting China in the US. They still don’t know one another’s names

On an overcast December afternoon in Boston, 11 Chinese citizens arrived one by one at an underground parking garage — their clandestine meeting spot.

Reuters

Former head of Exim Bank of China in Yunnan expelled from Communist party

Dai Shihong, a former head of the Export-Import Bank of China's Yunnan branch, has been expelled from the Communist Party and dismissed from public office, the anti-graft watchdog said in a statement on Friday.

Radio France Internationale

Five crucial questions for France's Macron as he embarks on Chinese trip

As French President Emmanuel Macron starts his four-day visit to China, he will have to keep in mind Beijing's attitude on several crucial questions. These include democracy in Hong Kong and the status of the independent nationalist island of Taiwan.

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