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‘Top ministers have been arrested by coup leaders’, says Africa security expert
We spoke to David Otto, Director of the Geneva Centre for Africa Security and Strategic Studies.
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Niger latest: Coup leaders shut down airspace after ultimatum
Political leaders in West Africa are meeting to decide their next moves – after the military junta in Niger defied an ultimatum to hand back power to the country’s democratically elected president.
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Donald Trump due in court for obstruction and conspiracy charges
As Donald Trump is due in court to answer charges including conspiracy to disenfranchise voters, security measures have been stepped up in Washington DC.
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Why a coup in Niger could have global consequences
The army says it’s backing members of the presidential guard, who announced on Wednesday that they’d removed the democratically-elected president.
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Tories face big battle in upcoming byelections
The Conservatives are facing a big battle later this week in three by-elections in Somerton and Froome; Selby and Ainsty; and Uxbridge and South Ruislip – which are expected to be heavily contested by Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
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Conservatives face public test in three by-elections
In just over a week, voters will go to the polls in three separate by-elections across the country and they’re likely to be a significant test of public opinion.
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Putin’s ‘rotten’ Russia needs to change – Evgenia Kara-Murza on the fight for Russian freedom
Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of long-time Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about her fight to free Russia’s political prisoners, the toll Vladimir’s detention has taken on their family and whether she can envisage a future in a free, democratic Russia, in this week’s Way to Change the World podcast.
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White House rolls out red carpet for Indian Prime Minister
While the West has framed the war in Ukraine as a defence of democratic values – India – the world’s largest democracy – has stopped short of condemning Russia’s invasion.
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Uganda: Pupils killed and captured by militants linked to Islamic State group
At least 41 people have been killed in an attack on a school in western Uganda, which police say was carried out by militants linked to Islamic State.
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Donald Trump’s federal charges brings ‘a threat of violence’, says lawyer
We spoke to Jill Wine-Banks, who was one of the prosecutors at the US Justice Department during the Watergate scandal and who has since campaigned for the Democrats.
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‘Never has there been more important a time for Nato’ amid rising China tensions, says former senior White House adviser
Lindsay Gorman is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States think tank and a former White House senior adviser.
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Braverman’s speeding row could threaten public confidence in justice system, says Lib Dem MP
Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s speeding row could threaten public confidence in the criminal justice system, says Alistair Carmichael MP, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs and Justice Spokesperson
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Could Tory-right backing for Boris Johnson mean Conservative ‘civil war’?
They say they want their party back – and that they’re the true voice of the Conservative grassroots. Disillusioned Tory activists – many still upset that Boris Johnson is no longer in charge – have been rallying behind a new group called the Conservative Democratic Organisation. The former prime minister sent a video message to…
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Local elections: Chris Philp, Emily Thornberry and Sir Ed Davey debate what results mean
We spoke to the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, the Conservative home office minister Chris Philp and Labour’s Emily Thornberry who is the shadow attorney general.
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Government action on sewage dumping ‘just not good enough,’ say Lib Dems
We spoke to the Conservative MP Philip Dunne, who chairs the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, and Christine Jardine of the Liberal Democrats.