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Press freedom at lowest level in 25 years amid growing authoritarian pressure

rights of the free press. RSF said press freedom had been declining over the 25-year period its index covered. It found declines in many democratic countries, warning that journalism was being “increasingly criminalised

I’ve covered Trump for a decade. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, darkness came viscerally close

right now. Secret Service agents raced through the room, wielding weapons. There was an eerie silence. By the time I rose to look at the dais, Donald and Melania Trump had already been rushed away

Hungary’s voters shunned Orbán – but it may be too early to celebrate end of Europe’s far right

authoritarian and corrupt governments”. Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, also believes the two-thirds majority secured by Orbán’s centre-right challenger, [Péter Magyar](https://www.theguardian.com/world/peter-magyar), in Sunday’s elections was “a clear signal