Author: Cole Hanson

(Montreal) Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ukraine condemned, on Wednesday, Tehran’s refusal to negotiate compensation for the families of the victims of Flight PS752, which was shot down by an Iranian missile nearly two years ago. Posted on November 24, 2021 at 4:20 pm “We, the ministers representing Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ukraine, express our deep disappointment that the Islamic Republic of Iran did not accept our multiple requests for a meeting on November 22, 2021,” we read in a press release presenting the joint declaration of the four countries. On January 8, 2020, the Iranian Armed…

Less than eight hours after she was elected by parliament, new Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson was forced to resign on Wednesday after a nightmare that saw her budget defeat and the departure of her environmental allies from the government. There is a constitutional practice whereby a coalition government resigns when a party leaves it. “I don’t want to lead a government whose legitimacy is questionable,” the Social Democrat leader told a news conference. On the evening of this failed ruling, Anderson said she hoped to be re-elected to office in a subsequent vote, with a 100% democratic socialist government…

(Beijing) US President Joe Biden on Wednesday angered Russia and China, which are not among the 110 or so countries and territories invited to his virtual summit for democracy in December. Posted on Nov 23, 2021 at 7:41pm Updated on November 24, 2021 6:16am Ludovic Erett with Francesco Fontemag in Washington France media agency “The United States prefers to create new dividing lines to divide countries into good, in its opinion, and bad,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a conference call. Beijing has expressed its “strong opposition” to Taiwan’s invitation to attend the virtual summit. “Taiwan has no other…

(Washington) Joe Biden invited about 110 countries and regions to his summit on virtual democracy in December, including key Western allies of the United States, as well as Taiwan in a clear message to China, which should cast a shadow over this meeting despite his absence. . Posted on Nov 23, 2021 at 7:41pm Updated at 8:39 PM. Francesco Fontemag France media agency The US president has made no secret of it since his arrival at the White House in January: the struggle between democracies and “authoritarian regimes”, embodied in his eyes by China and Russia, is at the heart…

A committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament recommended on Monday lifting the parliamentary immunity of Communist lawmaker Valery Rashkin, who has been implicated in an illegal fishing case deemed political by Kremlin critics. Russia’s State Duma deputies will have to vote Thursday, in plenary, to allow the prosecution of Mr. Rashkin, 66, who is also the first secretary of the Moscow Communist Party. On October 29, he was arrested in a forest in the Saratov region (Volga) with the remains of a moose in the trunk of his car, initially claiming that he had found the animal already dead,…

(Washington) The parliamentary committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill by Donald Trump supporters on Monday issued five new subpoenas for relatives of the former president. Posted on November 22, 2021 at 6:56 pm The new slate includes Roger Stone, a longtime friend of Donald Trump, and Alex Jones, a notorious American far-right conspirator, both directly involved in the Jan. 6 rally in which the former Republican president addressed thousands of supporters, throwing unfounded criticism over the election. “stole” from him. Democratic Representative-elect Benny Thompson, the committee’s chair, said in a statement that the parliamentary inquiry “seeks information…

The number of countries struggling with “democratic decline” (a more serious and deliberate form of democratic erosion) has never been higher than in the past decade, we read in The State of Global Democracy Report 2021, released Monday by IDEA International, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the development, strengthening and sustainability of democratic political institutions headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Thus the United States and Slovenia joined the poor list of democratic countries that experienced significant democratic erosion, along with countries that already existed, such as Brazil, India, Hungary, Poland, and the Philippines. The organization, which analyzed global trends from 2020…

(Paris) A study published Monday confirms that warming projections made by the United Nations based on commitments and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are more uncertain than one might think. Posted on November 22, 2021 at 12:33 pm According to the latest UN estimates, despite the new commitments for 2030 announced before and during the COP26 climate conference, the world is still heading towards a “catastrophic” 2.7°C warming by the end of the century. than the Paris Agreement to limit it much to +2°C, if possible +1.5°C, compared to the pre-industrial era. But the apparent accuracy of these predictions…

(Stockholm) The United States joined the list of “declining democracies” for the first time mainly due to a rating downgrade in the second half of Trump’s presidency, according to a landmark report on world democracy released Monday. Posted on Nov 21, 2021 at 7:56pm Mark Brill France media agency Globally, more than a quarter of the world’s population now lives in a shrinking democracy and nearly 70% adds authoritarian or “hybrid” regimes, with a trend of democratic decline that has continued unabated since 2016, according to the annual report of the intergovernmental organization. IDEA International is based in Stockholm. The…

(Stockholm) The United States joined the list of “declining democracies” for the first time mainly due to a rating downgrade in the second half of Trump’s presidency, according to a landmark report on world democracy released Monday. Posted on Nov 21, 2021 at 7:56pm Mark Brill France media agency Globally, more than a quarter of the world’s population now lives in a shrinking democracy and nearly 70% adds authoritarian or “hybrid” regimes, with a trend of democratic decline that has continued unabated since 2016, according to the annual report of the intergovernmental organization. IDEA International is based in Stockholm. The…