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Hong Kong is setting up an election without a real opposition
Hong Kong’s decision to bar 12 pro-democracy candidates from standing in forthcoming local elections has raised serious concerns over whether genuine political opposition will be tolerated in the city following the imposition of a new security law by Beijing.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/31/asia/hong-kong-election-disqualification-intl-hnk/index.html
US election 2020: Obama calls for end to voter suppression
Former US President Barack Obama has sharply criticised what he described as Republican attempts at voter suppression in a speech at civil rights leader John Lewis’s funeral.
Obama warns that Trump’s actions threaten US democracy
In one of the most jolting moments in modern political history, former President Barack Obama reclaimed his political pulpit with a stark warning that his successor is a grave and imminent threat to American democracy and racial justice.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-election-democracy/index.html
Trump again attempts to stoke racial divisions in housing message
President Donald Trump sought to stoke racial divisions Wednesday as he touted an administrative rule change on housing that he hopes will appeal to White suburbanites who have been abandoning him amid his handling of coronavirus and his views on race.
Birx warns US is ‘in a new phase’ of coronavirus pandemic with more widespread cases
August 3, 2020
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Della Hill
Dr. Deborah Birx on Sunday said the US is in a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, saying that the deadly virus is more widespread than when it first took hold in the US earlier this year.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/02/politics/birx-coronavirus-new-phase-cnntv/index.html
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