World View: Censorship, democracy and free speech key to interference in public discourse

Internationalists hope Biden victory heralds wider fall in far-right fortunes

Country hit by six cyclones in four weeks, including Vamco and Goni, the world’s most powerful this year

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in presidential election

World’s strongest storm so far this year brought powerful gusts of up to 290km/h

Trials of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine remain on hold until midweek

World updates: Spanish areas ban public smoking; two test positive for second time in China

Western experts cast doubt on Vladimir Putin’s claim that new vaccine has ‘passed all necessary tests’

Maria Ressa’s news organisation Rappler is a buffer against dictatorship in Philippines

Many countries that believed they were past the worst ‘grappling with new outbreaks’

Fierce criticism as editor of influential Rappler website faces up to six years in jail

UK death toll passes 40,000 mark; French children start returning to school

Overall death toll rises to above 300 while countries move to restrict travel from China

Court finds senior members of influential political clan guilty of Maguindanao killings

Lauren Greenfield’s remarkable film about the shoe-obsessed former first lady exposes how she lied and bought her way back into power

Demagogic movements from around the world are reflected in UK debate over EU exit

US Politics: There are lots of populisms. To speak of them in the terrifying singular is alarmist

Containers of ‘recyclables’ shipped to Philippines held waste including disposable nappies

Shipment of 69 containers sent back after five years as global trade in plastics under microscope

Senate majority will allow president pass his agenda, including redrafting constitution

Key vote to choose half the nation’s Senate may help president push through agenda

Ahead of elections, Philippines president names political rivals on list of ‘narcopoliticians’

Movement has attracted a range of militant jihadis to the Mindanao island group

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Three men handed up to 40 years in prison in first such conviction in Duterte’s crackdown

Caveat: In Irish business community, links to unsavoury regimes are everywhere

Decision to end capital punishment welcomed by Amnesty International

His histrionics at the Senate hearings show he’s hitched his wagon to his new best buddy

The president’s direct acknowledgement could add weight to criminal court inquiry

More than 2.4 million people evacuated in southern China’s Guangdong province

Coastal areas evacuated as Typhoon Mangkhut is set to hit country’s main island

US warships sail near Paracel Islands as tensions grow

Airline call for recosinderation of abrupt presidential order to close Boracay for six months

Body reportedly kept in freezer for a year, triggers crisis between Philippines and Kuwait

President accuses court of crusade against him after it opened inquiry into his war on drugs

Hague-based court to investigate crackdown which has led to thousands of killings

The focus on the US president’s threats to the media distracts from deadly challenges elsewhere

State Department advice a sign that officials fear violent reaction to Trump announcement

Hotel resort has spent €3m on capital projects over last few years

Pilita Clark: A study suggests people with an unusual first name are less likely to be hired