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Lula 2022? Brazil poised for sensational political comeback

 

With former president’s political rights restored, polls suggest he would thrash Jair Bolsonaro if he stands for election

 

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The Guardian view on Arab democracies: the least worst option

 

Benevolent dictatorship is not the answer to the region’s real problems

 

 

Thu 29 Jul 2021 18.54 BST

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/29/the-guardian-view-on-arab-democracies-the-least-worst-option

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Amnesty condemns Colombia police brutality after scores of protesters killed

 

‘He died as he lived, resisting’, says mother of young artist killed in Cali, as report claims authorities used systematic ‘pattern of violence’ in city

 

Joe Parkin Daniels in Cali, Colombia
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‘Parents are dressing up their children to be buried’: Syria’s war on young escalates

 

Mural artist Hussein Sabbagh, 13, one of 27 children killed in government attacks in north-west Syria in two months

 

Bethan McKernan Middle East correspondent
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The Guardian view on Fortress Europe: a continent losing its moral compass

 

The increasingly draconian approach to irregular migration betrays the spirit of the 1951 refugee convention

 

Sun 1 Aug 2021 18.30 BST

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/01/the-guardian-view-on-fortress-europe-a-continent-losing-its-moral-compass

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If the US really cared about freedom in Cuba, it would end its punishing sanctions

 

Critics dismiss Cuba as a failed state, but don’t accept how badly it’s hamstrung by the US blockade

 

Wed 4 Aug 2021 09.00 BST

Helen Yaffe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/04/us-freedom-cuba-punishing-sanctions-critics-blockade

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Brazil’s election authority to investigate Bolsonaro over baseless fraud claims

 

President has stepped up crusade against Brazil’s electronic voting system – prompting counter-attack from superior electoral court

 

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
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Around the world, disadvantaged people have been left behind by politicians of all hues

 

Studying hundreds of elections, we found parties increasingly catering to two elite groups – the well-educated and the well off

 

Thu 5 Aug 2021 12.45 BST

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Even a priest in Brazil is not spared rage of Bolsonaro supporters

 

Far-right congregants fumed at clergyman after he criticised president over Covid in his service

 

Tom Phillips in Fortaleza
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EU sanctions Nicaragua’s first lady and vice-president over human rights violations

 

Seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy

 

Staff and agencies in Brussels
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North Africa: A coup or not? Tunisian activists grapple with president’s powergrab

 

While Saied’s shutdown of parliament has outsiders worried, in Tunisia he has 87% support and civil society remains strong

 

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Palestinians facing eviction from East Jerusalem offered deal

 

Judge proposes compromise to settle dispute over home ownership with Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah

 

Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum
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‘New wave of volatility’: Covid stirs up grievances in Latin America

 

A new series on Covid’s global political impact starts by looking at how the pandemic has fuelled turbulence in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

by Tom Phillips in Fortaleza, Ed Augustin in Havana and Dan Collyns in Lima

Fri 6 Aug 2021 13.51 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/06/new-wave-volatility-covid-stirs-up-grievances-latin-america

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Taliban seize second Afghan provincial capital in two days

 

Airport of Sheberghan is only part of northern city to remain under government control following assault by insurgents

 

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Ethiopia conflict set to escalate after Tigray rebels refuse to withdraw

 

Government says it will ‘deploy entire defensive capability’ and Amhara region threatens attack against Tigray forces

 

Guardian staff and agencies
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‘If I go back, I’ll die’: Colombian town scrambles to accommodate 10,000 migrants

 

Necoclí, population 20,000, faces bottleneck as Covid rules lift and unrest, poverty and violence grow across region

 

Joe Parkin Daniels in Necoclí
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Major coup for Taliban as fighters take Afghan city of Kunduz

 

Insurgent group seizes important political and military hub as pro-government forces retreat

 

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Germany and the Netherlands halt deportations to Afghanistan

 

Governments’ U-turn comes amid country’s deteriorating security as Taliban continue their rapid advance

 

Agence France-Presse in Berlin
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Bolsonaro’s ‘banana republic’ military parade condemned by critics

 

Armoured vehicles roll through streets of Brasília as congress prepares to vote on plans to change Brazil’s voting system

 

 

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
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Cuba’s health system buckles under strain of overwhelming Covid surge

 

A lack of medical supplies is crippling the Covid response, amid an economic crisis sparked by the pandemic and US sanctions

 

Ed Augustin in Havana
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Qatar has failed to explain up to 70% of migrant worker deaths in past 10 years – Amnesty

 

World Cup host has not properly investigated fatalities, rights group says, citing concerns over heat stress and safety

 

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China’s children start first day schooled in ‘Xi Jinping thought’

 

The Chinese president’s political ideology is incorporated into the national curriculum as the new school year begins

 

Agence France-Presse
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Cuba review: American history of island neighbor is telling and timely

 

As Ada Ferrer writes, ‘Cuba – its sugar, its slavery, its slave trade – is part of the history of American capitalism’

 

Sat 4 Sep 2021 07.00 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Fears of violence on Brazil’s streets as millions rally to back Bolsonaro

 

His rural voters see the embattled president as a ‘messenger from God’. And this week they will march in the cities to support him

 

 

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The Palestinian Authority’s crackdown on protest shows it will never serve its own people

 

Palestinians are being repressed and brutalised by their own government in collaboration with the Israeli state

 

Wed 1 Sep 2021 17.40 BST

Yara Hawari

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/01/palestinian-authority-crackdown-protest-israeli

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