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Western leaders are happy to don the garb of liberty, democracy and human rights when it suits them – but the friends they keep tell a different story. New Internationalist calls for an end to fraternization with dictators.

Brazil’s economy teeters over Trump tariffs, by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Battle of the ballot. By Tarushi Aswani.

The shame of sexual violence belongs to the state, by Rosebell Kagumire.

Dead In The Water; Solidarity In Scotland; Shell Shocked.

In Modi’s India, Bengali-speaking migrants – and even citizens – are learning that identity papers mean little when language itself can mark you as an outsider. By Kasturi Chakraborty.

Once the rebellious voice of Zimbabwe’s streets, ZimDancehall now risks losing its soul as the regime buys off its stars to silence the beat of dissent. By Winile Ximba.

Suspended for defying Labour’s rightward drift, Zarah Sultana is emerging as the uncompromising new face of Britain’s left — young, principled, and unafraid to take on the establishment.

Led by a digitally savvy generation demanding integrity and equality, Nepal’s Gen Z protesters have toppled their prime minister and ignited a new fight to remake democracy from the ground up. By Maxine Betteridge-Moes.

Defying Milei’s austerity, Argentina’s paediatric hospital workers are leading a nationwide fight to save public healthcare from collapse. By Maia Pauro.

Moroccan feminist Ibtissame "Betty" Lachgar’s arrest for a satirical T-shirt exposes the peril facing free expression in a country where faith is policed and dissent is punished. By Rahila Gupta.

As climate chaos deepens, South Africa’s "water mafia" profits from disaster—sabotaging relief, selling thirst, and turning catastrophe into cash. By Tsitsi Bhobo.

Home at last; Youth revolt; Sacred mountains sullied; Bali curbs tourism; Cops unmasked; Deadly hit in Haiti.

As Brazil’s ‘Banditry Bill’ threatens to pardon Bolsonaro’s coup crimes, tens of thousands take to the streets to defend the fragile gains of their democracy. By Paula Lacey.