" Cohen also said that Trump was "becoming an autocrat.
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" Why it matters: "Putin is hardly the world's only autocrat.
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He sounded like an autocrat trying to dehumanize his allies.
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Trump's impulses are already in the mold of an autocrat.
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The strategy is a paradox: in pursuing stability, it strengthens the autocrat, but, in strengthening the autocrat, it enables him to further abuse his position, exacerbating the conditions that lead people to take up arms.
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This is the move of an autocrat, not an American president.
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In Armenia, an autocrat was ousted in April by mass protests.
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The French usually supported whichever autocrat or warlord was in power.
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Benefiting from an oil windfall, he ruled as a paternalist autocrat.
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And why the allure of an autocrat promising modernization remains strong.
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The Russian autocrat may support Sanders, but Sanders doesn't support him.
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Turns out being an autocrat has its downside: Their friends disappear.
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By the end of the opera, the artist outshines the autocrat.
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WILLIAMS: All good for autocrat in the White House according to Greg.
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In Sri Lanka, the opposition united to beat a spendthrift, vicious autocrat.
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But the efficiency that's offered by an autocrat, that's a false promise.
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The autocrat who executed hundreds of Batista collaborators outside Havana in 1959?
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Meanwhile, one duke has disappeared, and another, an autocrat, has taken over.
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Another autocrat that reminds many of Trump is Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.
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The political lifespan of a tyrannical autocrat would be much shorter. Arnold.
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The first task of any autocrat is to look strong and invincible.
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To some Merkel opponents, the deal amounts to propping up an autocrat.
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Protesters see Vucic as an autocrat and his Serbian Progressive Party as corrupt.
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Benny was right there, always the autocrat, and thousands of people were watching.
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Fujimori, the daughter of former autocrat Alberto Fujimori, called her arrest political persecution.
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Is the president an autocrat, or does he just play one on TV?
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Instead, the autocrat has had a whopping 110,000 people detained, fired, or suspended.
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At present, Donald Trump is an autocrat without an autocracy.... But systems change.
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Guaidó quickly became the center of an international effort to depose an autocrat.
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Mugabe was known, both at home and overseas, as a power-hungry autocrat.
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The autocrat Viktor Orban has taken control of much of the country's media.
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In local Turkish elections, the opposition, united and organized, took on an autocrat.
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As an autocrat, the king and his son can do whatever they like.
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Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto, ruled Peru as an autocrat from 1990 to 2000.
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John McCain, an Arizona Republican, quickly rebuked the President for congratulating the autocrat.
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Had the board seen a chance to get rid of an arrogant autocrat?
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The attack cemented Moscow more closely than ever to the notorious Syrian autocrat.
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The post-Panama Papers, WikiLeaks world is an uncomfortable place for an autocrat.
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Mr. Jammeh has been in power for 22 years, a ruthless autocrat throughout.
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For some reason, the former KGB spy turned autocrat doesn't exactly inspire worldwide lulz.
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Such reforms often, or usually, founder on vested interests on which the autocrat depends.
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In that moment, he established himself as a true autocrat, analysts and critics said.
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Close to half of the electorate views Mr Erdogan as an increasingly unscrupulous autocrat.
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Algerians often speculate about the health of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, their 81-year-old autocrat.
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Like any autocrat, he has taken extraordinary measures to maintain control over his realm.
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Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto, ran the country as an elected autocrat for ten years.
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It must have been wild, finding herself next to an egomaniacal autocrat like that.
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But Mr. Hun Sen's critics worry that the aging autocrat might have acted rashly.
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A Word With On Broadway, at least, everyone loves a pompous, thin-skinned autocrat.
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An autocrat is "a ruler who has absolute power," and Trump will not become that.
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Trump has praised Putin's leadership qualities and warmly embraced the Russian autocrat throughout the campaign.
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An inexperienced and autocrat-loving American president isn't planning to bring one of his own.
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Trump's an autocrat all right, but the silver lining is that he's an inept one.
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First we heard the current Hannity praising Mr. Trump for talking with the Korean autocrat.
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Too easily swayed, it helps create the opposite danger, the sneering autocrat, proud and intransigent.
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His transformation into an autocrat is a troubling lesson about the decline of liberal democracies.
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Mr. Trump is clearly a would-be autocrat, and other Republicans are his willing enablers.
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Opposition activists say Vucic is an autocrat and brand his Serbian Progressive Party as corrupt.
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China may hold ultimate control over the actions of Kim Jong Un, North Korea's youthful autocrat.
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But the United States is not an authoritarian state and the president is not an autocrat.
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The opposition says Maduro is an inept autocrat who must leave office before the crisis worsens.
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The sultan is an autocrat (and a spendthrift), but he affects an enthusiasm for the arts.
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Faced with a storm of popular outrage, the short-lived autocrat stepped down on April 12th.
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Egypt has been struggling to restore economic growth since a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Go soft on PiS's leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and Europe's next would-be autocrat will be emboldened.
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These days, it seems like the best path to political success is to become an autocrat.
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Ugandan autocrat Idi Amin, in power at that time, broke ties with Israel after the raid.
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To them, Ryder isn't a megalomaniac, and Sir Topham Hatt of "Thomas" isn't a neocolonial autocrat.
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Our president took the word of the Russian autocrat over the findings of America's intelligence agencies.
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The reason is obvious: Mr. Trump appears to be infatuated with the autocrat in the Kremlin.
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Or did a charter school board seize a chance to get rid of an arrogant autocrat?
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This all happened under the former president Rafael Correa, who was widely seen as an autocrat.
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The only thing citizens have that stands between them and an autocrat, it seems, are lawyers.
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Mr. Trump is a type of political animal unknown to Americans, a far-right populist autocrat.
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That left him vouching for the "powerful" denial of a murderous autocrat and created the current crisis.
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Corruption was one of main catalysts of the 2011 revolt against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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When his term in office expired in 2015, Mr Barzani suspended parliament and ruled like an autocrat.
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His opponents, however, view him as an aspiring autocrat and fear a return to one-man rule.
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Fears that Duterte could become an autocrat are compounded by the admiration he has expressed for Marcos.
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Assad, like so many strong hands in the Middle East, is an autocrat and likely much worse.
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It's true that a ruthless autocrat can intimidate enough players in enough positions to consolidate absolute rule.
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If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade.
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He did so with a wink and a smile for the smirking autocrat who led the attack.
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His exasperation is the voice of Englishness recoiling from the sheer vulgarity of the would-be autocrat.
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His isolation would continue, and history would judge him as yet another failing corrupt, repressive Arab autocrat.
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The Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán got perfunctory applause; the bolsonaristas seemed not to know who he was.
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It might also be a surprise to those who have worried that he's a would-be autocrat.
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He ripened under Riley, an iconic autocrat whose players turned every possession into a three-alarm fire.
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An astonishing 2503 of those economies — more than 80 percent of them — were run by an autocrat.
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If to Mark, Hadi represents the lure of financial independence, to Gerry he is a fledgling autocrat.
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Another relative newcomer hoping to break the old autocrat mold is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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After all, what autocrat can resist being a victim and blaming outsiders for political and economic failures?
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Misratis tend to see Haftar, an ex-general from Gaddafi's army, as a copy of the autocrat.
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He never shed his garish style and was considered an autocrat who let Parliament expire during his tenure.
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Diplomats said an attempted coup in 1982 transformed Moi from a cautious, insecure leader into a tough autocrat.
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President Joseph Kabila, Congo's long-stay autocrat, had refused to leave power, as he was obliged to do.
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Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, like Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, is an originally elected autocrat ruling as a dictator.
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While the West regards him as an autocrat, some in Africa see him as an anti-colonial champion.
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Yet Mr Déby is also a repressive autocrat who has squandered Chad's oil wealth and beggared his people.
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Just when the Venezuelan autocrat Nicolas Maduro was in need of help, Goldman Sachs came to the rescue.
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While Correa brought calm to the smallest member of OPEC, opponents accuse him of morphing into an autocrat.
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Under a competent autocrat, Amazon might be in trouble because their business model is so dependent on government.
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Before that gathering, he called for re-admission of Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin to the G-7 club.
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I just cannot help noticing that they seem to follow the same playbook for being a successful autocrat .
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Regrettably, though, the idea of the benevolent autocrat, the just dictator, is being revived in the Arab world.
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Democracies give way to tyrannies when mob passion overwhelms political wisdom and a populist autocrat seizes the masses.
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If consent cannot be sustained, however, then invariably an autocrat ends up relying a lot more on repression.
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The other picture is one of an autocrat who has imposed his will on every branch of government.
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" After an interviewer called Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin "a killer," Trump replied: "You think our country's so innocent?
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If displacement demands extraordinary accommodations of personality, so does remaining in a country run by a brutal autocrat.
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Russia, which intervened decisively in 2015, had its own motives: flouting American designs and protecting a reliable autocrat.
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President Donald Trump should be given every chance to break his campaign promise to govern as an autocrat.
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Nazarbayev is known as an autocrat, who uses sham elections to extend his nearly three decades in power.
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Diplomats said an attempted coup four years later transformed him from a cautious, insecure leader into a tough autocrat.
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The uprising to topple the autocrat heralded a democratic transition but the associated turmoil also spawned an economic crisis.
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Tunisia also faces pressing economic problems, nine years after the overthrow of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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When Egyptians rose up against autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, a signature chant was "Bread, freedom and social justice".
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If your company is run by an autocrat you'd better hope that they're as gifted as Springsteen or Petty.
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But rather than buckle to their demands, Mr Ortega sought patronage from a fellow autocrat in Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
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The point is: People making their own decisions is, on balance, better than an autocrat making decisions for them.
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Sisi blamed the 2011 uprising which toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak for weakening Cairo's position in the dam negotiations.
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Sisi blamed the 2011 uprising which toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak for weakening Cairo's position in the dam negotiations.
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Then, the autocrat and his team systematically dismantle the independence of the judiciary and, ultimately, the rule of law.
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U.S. lawmakers remain highly skeptical of Erdoğan, and several members of Congress urged Trump to disinvite the Turkish autocrat.
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Ignoring Vladimir Putin's excesses, he apparently views the Russian autocrat as an ally in the fight against Islamic extremism.
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Remember the Trump head-patting incident, in which he palled around with our soon-to-be autocrat in chief?
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People crowded streets and sidewalks to cheer him, snap his picture, and wave wildly at the North Korean autocrat.
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Of the two women candidates, Abir Moussi was a supporter of the ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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While Stern seldom hid from debate or debacle, the litigator in him on occasion was obscured by the autocrat.
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Whether the atrocity is in your own backyard or someone else's, how do you deal with the autocrat responsible?
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In other words, it is Mr. Trump's insistence on simplicity that makes him want to rule like an autocrat.
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WHO WILL win the tussle between Apple, the world's biggest company, and Vladimir Putin, an autocrat with nuclear weapons?
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Libya slipped into political turmoil after a NATO backed air campaign helped rebels topple autocrat Muammar Gaddafi five years ago.
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You are often portrayed as a strong man, and autocrat, a person who is a symbol of Russia&aposs strength.
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The North Korean autocrat&aposs every move will be followed by 3,000 journalists up until he shakes hands with Trump.
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The uprising to topple the autocrat heralded a democratic transition but the associated turmoil also led to an economic crisis.
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"If Trump became a full-fledged autocrat, it will not be because he succeeds in running the state," Klain said.
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"It's beyond one's imagination to have a candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin," Clinton told reporters.
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Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad withdrew his forces from most of northeast Syria in 2012, handing over power to the Kurds.
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First off, the evidence that Trump is an autocrat, demanding fealty from private companies, is largely limited to mean tweets.
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Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets.
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Even Mr. Castro's spotty performance as an aging autocrat in charge of a foundering economy could not undermine his image.
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To some degree, that's baked into the play, which has been read as anti-mob as often as anti-autocrat.
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Claiming that Congress was incapable of taking on either threat, Mr. Fujimori suspended the Constitution and ruled as an autocrat.
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And there is indeed plenty of bad news, like the inauguration this week of a militaristic potential autocrat in Brazil.
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We're 500 days into this waking nightmare of a presidency, and Trump has now claimed the powers of an autocrat.
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"He went from being an autocrat to being a dictator," said Vukota Govedarica, one of Mr. Dodik's rare political rivals.
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Let's try to help a populace hurting with hunger and humiliation, but leave the autocrat forlorn, boasting about his toys.
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But in a nation of laws, we must be loyal to laws, norms and institutions, not to a passing autocrat.
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M.B.Z., as he is widely known, is a socially liberal autocrat who has meddled in Egypt, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
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A belligerent Turkey, ruled by a corrupt autocrat, could be angling to pull America into conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.
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They were the oddest of political colleagues: a nonagenarian onetime autocrat and the former protégé he had jailed for sodomy.
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He takes viewers through the three working theories of who Trump is: the working hero; the autocrat; the accidental president.
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An autocrat with a sadistic streak, the reverend mother enforces harsh discipline and seems to enjoy humiliating her young charges.
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Mr. Rajapaksa, who many believed was an entrenched autocrat, lost to a defector from his own government, he pointed out.
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I, unlike many other Trump critics, hope that the president's radically new approach to handling this untested Korean autocrat will succeed.
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The leading man in "Yanxi Palace", Qianlong, is something of a cipher: a stern autocrat who finds his harem a chore.
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First, an autocrat in waiting puts his pals in charge of the public broadcaster and accuses critical outlets of spreading lies.
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Unlike Mr Putin, he has none of the advantages of being an autocrat; Finland is one of the world's freest democracies.
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Recently, even Asia's longest-serving autocrat has felt the need to woo younger Cambodians by turning more emphatically to social media.
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Besides, with such an anthology of available examples, an autocrat aiming to consolidate power has now lost the element of surprise.
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Mass protests as part of the "Arab Spring" forced Yemen's veteran autocrat President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down in 2012.
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Xi Jinping, China's autocrat, thinks graft is the big threat to one-party rule, and is trying to root it out.
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The deal was signed with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an autocrat, who has attacked the news media and freedom of expression.
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" Trump also boasted of his "great relationship" with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, and laughed when the autocrat denounced reporters as "spies.
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MOSCOW — Islam Karimov, a ruthless autocrat who ruled Uzbekistan for almost three decades, died on Friday in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.
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The lack of information followed an old Soviet tradition of keeping bad news about the health of an autocrat under wraps.
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He said the attacks this week on Mr. Trump as an autocrat had the potential to resonate outside the Democratic base.
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Mr. Yameen, 57, is the half brother of the longtime autocrat Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives for 30 years.
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The first is instrumental: If lives can be saved by cutting a deal with a murderous autocrat, you make that deal.
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It has to draw lines, reward quality, and resist the epistemic chaos that America's aspiring autocrat is pulling in his wake.
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I've often heard of the autocrat due north of the demilitarized zone running his country by the myths of his reputation.
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Ever the autocrat, he zigs first this way, then that, utterly indifferent to the consequences that his actions have on others.
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Mr. Netanyahu is the toast of the new wave of right-wing, populist and autocrat-like (if not outright autocratic) leaders.
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He began providing military support to the renegade former general Khalifa Haftar, an autocrat who shared M.B.Z.'s feelings about Islamists.
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And worse, the G.O.P. has elevated the exact same kind of autocrat that Middle Easterners are trying to get rid of.
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The Autocrat: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Where President Barack Obama distanced himself from Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Trump has embraced him.
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"I alone can fix" the nation's problems, he said in a style more typical of an autocrat than a democratically elected leader.
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"The point is: people making their own decisions is, on balance, better than an autocrat making decisions for them," the letter reads.
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Two senior officials said intel pointed toward the autocrat personally helping decide how hacked material from the Democratic National Committee was used.
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The focus is on nuclear weapons, and the young autocrat&aposs international standing is likely to be boosted regardless of the outcome.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Mervat al-Neel was one of the many women whose protests helped bring down Sudanese autocrat Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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In September he renewed a feud with Robert Mugabe, the ailing autocrat who has impoverished Zimbabwe, again urging him to step down.
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He's a transparent stand-in for Robert Moses, the real-life autocrat who ruled over the city in the mid-20th century.
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The Federalists, led by Juan Manuel de Rosas, a bloodstained autocrat, fought for decentralised government with strong provinces under dark-blue colours.
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A populist and an autocrat, he scoffs at the law, encourages extrajudicial killings of drug users and makes light of human rights.
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Our 18th-century Constitution lacks provisions necessary to slow down a would-be autocrat bent on the slow dismantling of the republic.
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In 2010, before the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, 14 million tourists visited Egypt, bringing in some $11 billion in revenues.
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Let people see you are who you really are – not as some autocrat, but someone who is relatable and of equal value.
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He lost against Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in the first presidential election after Egypt's 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Further, Putin is an autocrat who can "get things done" without worrying about approval from Congress or rejection from a Supreme Court.
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The Iranian attacks on those tankers were meant to punish Sunni Arab countries for backing Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein in that conflict.
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Since the toppling of autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, nine cabinets have failed to resolve high inflation and unemployment.
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Protesters, however, kept up the pressure for rapid change following the overthrow of long-ruling autocrat President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday.
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And this summer, Mark Zuckerberg, who has recommended Mr. Harari to his book club, acknowledged a fixation with the autocrat Caesar Augustus.
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The Turkish autocrat is a master of keeping allies and adversaries off balance, as President Trump discovered in the past two weeks.
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So if you're a budding autocrat interested in a bit of easy money laundering, you don't turn to federal officials in Washington.
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But while Mr. Harper was often characterized as something of a micromanaging autocrat, Mr. Scheer campaigned on building consensus within the party.
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As a would-be autocrat he has empowered autocrats around the world, in Saudi Arabia, in China, in Russia, in the Philippines.
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Rather, as often in the Trump presidency, it's a moment that illuminates how a more dangerous would-be autocrat might someday act.
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The Russian president, a ruthless, KGB- trained autocrat, understands Trump's game because he has played it himself, at a higher level, for decades.
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Tonight, the choice wasn't merely between red and blue, but between democracy and authoritarianism, between a public servant and a would-be autocrat.
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Thus, whenever an autocrat makes a stirring speech about national pride, his real aim may be to deflect attention from his own skulduggery.
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First, Libyan autocrat Moammar Gadhafi was killed following U.S.-supported military action in his country seven years after giving up his nuclear program.
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It was to meet with far-right Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán to lament the "continuously growing Muslim populations" in both of their countries.
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The opposition has decried Maduro as an autocrat who has wrecked the OPEC member's economy, and demanded elections to resolve the political crisis.
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They offer a neat table, setting out "Four Key Indicators of Authoritarian Behaviour" to help readers decide whether Mr Trump is an autocrat.
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And when Egyptians rose up against autocrat Hosni Mubarak's rule in 2011, one of their signature chants was "Bread, freedom and social justice".
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One of the most important things for any would-be autocrat to do is either marginalize or seize control of the court system.
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Mr Kagame, for example, has always been an autocrat at heart, even though he rode to power with an initial vote of confidence.
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They call him a petty autocrat who governs by text message and fills his cabinet with political pygmies to enhance his own authority.
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The worst of this prickly autocrat may now be unleashed upon Turkey, with America and its allies able to do little about it.
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Tunisia's economy has been in crisis since autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled in 2011, with unemployment and inflation shooting up.
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Trump's public jousting with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean autocrat, over Pyongyang's escalating nuclear program has captivated nuclear weapons experts for months.
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Mr. Coppola had a reputation as an autocrat, more typical of the imperious maestros of his time than today's comparatively democratic podium-ites.
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That's how economic regulation works in many autocratic states, and it serves to entrench the autocrat in power and to impoverish their populations.
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That is part of the price Moscow exacted for having protected Mr. Assad, a brutal autocrat once described by Western leaders as finished.
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In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro now rules as an autocrat, extending his own term this year in an election widely seen as rigged.
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Mr. Orban is a ruthless autocrat who has betrayed the citizens of his wonderful country and has stripped their rights in myriad ways.
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Shaw's infatuation with Russia became a full-on love affair with a Soviet autocrat, whereas the Trump bromance with President Putin appears unconsummated.
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That uprising ousted the military-backed autocrat Hosni Mubarak and led to Egypt's first free election, which brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power.
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Then comes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, an autocrat who has bullied critics and whose government is a leading jailer of journalists.
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Decrying Maduro as an autocrat who has wrecked the OPEC nation's economy, Venezuela's opposition is demanding elections to resolve Venezuela's grave political crisis.
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Trump's tweets might be a sign, not of an incipient autocrat, but of an unstable narcissist who will undermine himself at every step.
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The former autocrat, who ruled Egypt for three decades, was photographed at a Mediterranean beach resort with a smiling granddaughter on his knee.
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Tunisia's transition since a 2011 uprising overthrew autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has been hailed as a model for the Arab world.
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The Venezuelan autocrat, meanwhile, is outwardly striking a confident pose despite the sanctions and rhetorical fury from his giant neighbor in the north.
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Despite the evidence, Kremlin watchers in the early 2000s took a long time to see Mr. Putin for the autocrat he would become.
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Demonstrations have taken place outside the syndicate for decades, particularly in the aftermath of the 8003 uprising that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Demonstrations have taken place outside the syndicate for decades, particularly in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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A cancer-stricken Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Western-backed autocrat, had gone into exile in mid-January, leaving behind a rickety regency council.
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The North African country helped inspire the broader Arab Spring uprisings with its overthrow of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2978.
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Tunisia's democratic transition since a 2011 uprising overthrew autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has been praised as a model for the Arab world.
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Soros has described Orban as a dangerous autocrat while Orban accuses the financier of interference in Hungarian politics through its support of opposition groups.
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This kind of authoritarian talk is the sort of thing you might expect from a tin pot dictator or an autocrat like Vladimir Putin.
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Vucic, now the prime minister of Serbia, is a former hardline nationalist who was once aligned with autocrat and convicted war criminal Slobodan Milošević.
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Kent Brockman said it before and he'll say it again, "democracy simply doesn't work" (+13) so he, for one, welcomes our new autocrat overlords.
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But economic development and reforms have failed to keep pace with the political changes since the fall of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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The biggest worriers view him as a Mexican version of the late Hugo Chávez, an autocrat who wrecked Venezuela's economy and undermined its democracy.
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Egypt has been starved of foreign currency since a popular uprising in 2011 ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak and drove tourists and foreign investors away.
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The demonstrations have so far been much smaller than previous protests since the overthrow of autocrat ruler Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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Work to restore the mosque began in 2007, but stopped in 2011, the year protesters took to the streets and toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Mr Bongo's problem is that he seems to want to be judged as a real democratically-elected world statesman, not as a thuggish autocrat.
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Their split signals that Mr. Erdogan's transformation from democrat to autocrat is nearly complete, his ambition of establishing an executive presidency closer at hand.
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The official state ideology tends to emphasize the personal strength and qualities of the autocrat, as opposed to some kind of broader ideological foundation.
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He has worked to thwart democratic transitions, helped install a reliable autocrat in Egypt and led a drive to isolate Qatar, his regional rival.
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The changes — coming eight years after Arab Spring protests toppled the country's longtime autocrat, Hosni Mubarak — will further strengthen Mr. el-Sisi's authoritarian rule.
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But the danger of a demagogic, aspirational autocrat winning the White House is one problem the Madisonian constitutional order is exquisitely designed to handle.
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The visit by Mr. Orban, who is seen as an autocrat who has rolled back democracy, provoked a sharp dispute within the White House.
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See, Xi Jinping may have an iron grip on the rule of China, but the autocrat and the stuffed animal share a certain... likeness.
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For Mr. Sisi, an increasingly stern autocrat who has miscalculated before, Mr. Mubarak's new lease on life could still pose a delicate balancing act.
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In 1936, Reza Shah, an autocrat whose vision for Iran bore some resemblance to Prince Mohammed's Vision 2030 for Saudi Arabia, banned the hijab.
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Background: Mr. al-Bashir had long played up his humble origins, but even for an autocrat, he had a low reputation in the West.
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During his opening remarks, the Russian autocrat appeared exasperated that he had to again deny any knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 vote.
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The four-month rebellion and the government's suppression of it have wrecked Nicaragua's economy but left the autocrat firmly in power, at least for now.
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The country has been starved of foreign currency since a popular uprising in 2011 ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak and drove tourists and foreign investors away.
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Protesters said they see Vucic as an autocrat and his Serbian Progressive Party as corrupt and instrumental in what they say was a fraudulent election.
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In one decision, Xi confirmed his critics' view that he was an unrepentant autocrat willing to take China backwards in the service of his agenda.
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Tourism, a crucial source of income for Egypt, has struggled to rebound since the 2011 uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, ushering in years of instability.
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John McCain has issued a strong statement about Vladimir Putin that can only be read as a warning against Trump's solicitude of the Russian autocrat.
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He aspired to be a benevolent autocrat, but he had little understanding of the condition Vietnamese society was in after seventy years of colonial rule.
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As much as anyone, he is the voice of the Arab millennial: bright, well-educated, technologically literate, and deeply hostile to both autocrat and theocrat.
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Many expressed respect for his role overseeing political reforms in the north African country after the overthrow of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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In April Jamal Khashoggi gave this speech, saying the dangerous idea of the benevolent autocrat, the just dictator, is being revived in the Arab world.
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The American president defends a Russian autocrat, a Saudi Mad Prince, a Philippine ruler who presides over a dirty war, a Hungarian authoritarian and others.
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Tunisia's economy has struggled in the nine years since the ouster of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who died in exile in September.
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Most Americans I talk with don't even know about these youth-led movements that, for example, toppled Egyptian autocrat, President Hosni Mubarak in 22019 days.
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Conversely, how can you realize your personal ambitions (say, toppling a Middle Eastern autocrat who tried to kill your father) within the systems of bureaucracy?
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SINGAPORE – Miles from Washington, staring down a momentous meeting with a North Korean autocrat, President Donald Trump had plenty of other things on his mind, too.
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He was a little-known restaurateur until he appeared in Putin's orbit in the early 2000s and began serving the autocrat during visits by foreign dignitaries.
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Egypt's economy has struggled since 2011, when an uprising - partly driven by anger about the lack of job prospects for young Egyptians - toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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An autocrat and ardent nationalist, Orban and his Fidesz party are determined to weaken the integrated EU in favor of a Europe of loosely connected nations.
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Libya's output has fallen to less than a quarter of the 1.6 million barrels per day produced before the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Muammar Gaddafi.
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In the short term, there may be an occasional autocrat who serves his country well, but dictatorships do not end well for the countries they oversee.
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But the Persian autocrat kept getting his royal knickers in a twist so often that the German government couldn't be bothered to investigate every single case.
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Within a few days, they had gathered more than 1.8 million, evidence of mounting frustration in a country that is being led by an incompetent autocrat.
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Foreigners were significant investors in Egypt's government bonds and bills and a major source of hard currency before the 2011 uprising that overthrew autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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So, let's celebrate freedom of the press in America, and the self-undoing of a would-be autocrat, by continuing to watch SNL parody Donald Trump.
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On Friday morning in Buenos Aires at the G-20 meeting, Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin gave a warm handshake to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Until recently, this tendency was scarcely known beyond his home town, Davao City, which as mayor he ruled like an autocrat for more than two decades.
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Egypt's economic growth has deteriorated since the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak drove tourists and foreign investors away, drying up foreign reserves.
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Though the outcome is still uncertain, a quasi-coup began earlier this week in Zimbabwe, which will likely remove the Savile-row suited autocrat from office.
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This may be the central enigma of M.B.Z.'s tenure: He is a socially liberal autocrat, and his country looks different depending on where you stand.
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Borisov reiterated Moscow's support for Maduro, even though many other nations regard him as an autocrat and have recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president.
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But after Khashoggi's murder, the positive case for Mohammed bin Salman was largely submerged in the West, where he was increasingly viewed as an impetuous autocrat.
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They will be the third set of polls in which Tunisians can vote freely following the 2011 revolution that toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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Why have they only come out now, in response to the edicts of a foreign autocrat, when everything here has been so deeply fucked for so long?
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Their arrests were the latest blow to the conservative movement built by former autocrat Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori's father, during his decade in power from 1990 to 2000.
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"No one should be confused about America's commitment to Europe, not an autocrat in the Kremlin, not a presidential candidate on a Scottish golf course," she said.
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Human rights groups have accused Egyptian authorities of widespread violations that include rolling back press freedoms won in the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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They did not devise autocrat-proof institutions, but they were keenly aware of politicians' autocratic tendencies, and felt a great trepidation about whether American democracy should endure.
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Protests broke out across the country in January, with many angry at being worse off than before a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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The two friends, both aged 42, remember the 1990s, when Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto Fujimori, ruling as an autocrat, vanquished the Shining Path terrorist group and hyperinflation.
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"The fact that we have 23 presidential hopefuls indicates that there is an opening of political space following the fall of former autocrat Robert Mugabe," Attwell added.
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Former British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Westmacott compared President Trump to an autocrat in Nazi Germany after the president's campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday.
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If a would-be autocrat doesn't make good on a threat it's because he couldn't–he was stopped or deterred–not because it was an empty threat.
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He led the toppling in 2013 of Mursi, Egypt's first freely-elected president who briefly held power after the 2011 uprisings that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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He has worked to thwart democratic transitions in the Middle East, helped install a reliable autocrat in Egypt and boosted a protégé to power in Saudi Arabia.
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In response to their demands over the past week, Sudan's armed forces deposed President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the autocrat who had ruled the country since 1989.
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And just this year in Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, handpicked by an autocrat as successor, has enacted a ban on re-election intended to prevent the autocrat's return.
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Despite Mr. Maduro's constant diatribes against the American Empire, even a tenuous offer to meet with an autocrat-friendly American president was one Mr. Maduro couldn't refuse.
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Instead of entertaining the possibility of a military intervention to remove Mr. Maduro, Washington should focus on circumventing our own budding kleptocracy led by another aspiring autocrat.
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It remained unclear who would replace the longtime autocrat, even if he agreed to step down — possibly at the December congress of his ruling ZANU-PF party.
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Since the 2011 revolt against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has seen a growing threat from Islamist militancy at home and from over the border.
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The aura of invincibility was not quite shattered — the autocrat had survived long enough to see those who revolted against him imprisoned, killed or forced to flee.
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Tunisia's economy has been hit hard by instability since the overthrow of former autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, including major militant attacks in 2015.
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Fillon has, as Le Monde noted, played billiards with the Russian autocrat at his summer retreat in Sochi when the two were prime ministers of their respective nations.
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He went missing in central Cairo when police were out in force to prevent protests on the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Egypt has been starved of foreign currency since an uprising in 2011 ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak but drove away tourists and foreign investors - major sources of hard currency.
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Inflation in autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko's Congo, then known as Zaire, hit an all time high rate of nearly 24,000 percent in 1994, sending the local economy crashing.
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Tunisia's economy has been in crisis since the toppling of autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 threw it into turmoil, with unemployment and inflation shooting up.
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That we have installed a would-be autocrat in the White House, but luckily he is too limited to achieve his goals, too distractible to pursue his ends?
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Several quoted from "Ozymandias," Shelley's meditation on the ruins of a monument to a long-forgotten autocrat ("Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. ...").
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Tourism is a pillar of the Egyptian economy, which has been struggling to recover from political turmoil that began with the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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But Nicolás Maduro, the embattled autocrat in power, is claiming Washington is fomenting a coup, justifying efforts by Maduro's allies in China, Russia and Turkey to weigh in.
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To say that he is an autocrat rather than a totalitarian is not to excuse his methods or misdeeds, but to advocate a clear-eyed assessment of reality.
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Egypt has been starved of foreign currency since an uprising in 2011 ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak but drove tourists and foreign investors away- major sources of hard currency.
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Since the 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's democracy has been held up as a model for a region wracked by violence and instability.
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During their meeting in Singapore in June President Trump floated the possibility of an invitation to the young North Korean autocrat to visit him at the White House.
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Five years after millions of Egyptians toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak for endemic corruption and police brutality, the armed forces have taken a more hands-on role in governing.
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Egypt's last parliament was elected in 2011-12 in the country's first free vote since a popular January 2011 uprising that ended autocrat Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
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And to all the more recent outrages of birtherism, government shutdowns, delayed Supreme Court confirmations and, ultimately, the rise of a would-be autocrat as a party nominee.
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These perspectives are vital at a time when many progressives regard the Constitution as our only line of defense against a would-be autocrat in the White House.
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Mona Eltahawy Which country, due to hold a presidential election next month, is led by an autocrat who, having eliminated any serious competition, is basically running against himself?
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Trump might want to be an autocrat, and can certainly talk like one—he's reportedly upset that his Justice Department won't protect him like he thinks they should.
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The result was "Am Königsweg" ("On the Royal Road"), a lengthy monologue about a tacky autocrat whose sordid path to leadership is narrated by a blind female seer.
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Elelaimy was one of the leading Egyptian activists during the 2011 popular revolts across the region that toppled long-serving autocrat Hosni Mubarak and several other Arab leaders.
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Putin is universally expected to win his fourth six-year term in office on March 2900, largely because the Russian autocrat has ensured no other outcome is possible.
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Similar to the style of an autocrat whipping a mob into a frenzy, Trump's style of leadership has deepened divides between Americans and brought politics into the gutter.
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"There is a knee-jerk tendency to see the legislative and judicial branches as the good guys, protecting the people from a rapacious would-be autocrat," Barr said.
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Whatever brutality Trump's autocrat-friends inflict on human beings, whatever contempt they have for a free press or the rule of law, is no longer an American concern.
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Michael EttingerRhinebeck, N.Y. To the Editor: The real national emergency is that Donald Trump believes he is an autocrat and subject to neither constitutional restraints nor existing law.
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The downfall of long-serving autocrat Suharto in 229 - amid a crisis widely blamed on a culture of nepotism and graft - brought an end to a regime of repression.
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Guess it's true what they say: you can lead a girl to books about the rise and fall of an autocrat, but you still can't make her think. pic.twitter.
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He is the first presidential nominee from the moderate Islamist party since Tunisia transitioned to democracy after the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Backers of the Alliance for Serbia, an opposition grouping of 30 parties and organizations, say Vucic is an autocrat and his party is corrupt, something its leaders vehemently deny.
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Tunisia's economy has been in crisis since the North African state kicked off the Muslim World's "Arab Spring" uprisings by toppling autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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His supporters say firm measures are necessary to bring security and stability to a country that has seen unrest since a 2011 uprising toppled long-serving autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Tunisia has been praised as a rare Arab example of moderate politics and democratic transition since the overthrow of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in a 2011 uprising.
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Fravel explained to me that it's not in China's interest to suddenly declare war on the US. "The worst thing for an autocrat is losing a war," he said.
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A law passed in 2013 banned demonstrations not approved by the Interior Ministry, taking away a right earned in the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Sliti rejected concerns he would face torture in Tunisia, which is the middle of a democratic transition after the toppling of autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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In other words, foolhardy voters, their judgments marred by ignorance and motivated by bigotry, have endangered our fragile republic and put a solipsistic wannabe-autocrat in the White House.
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No autocrat of boundless ambition, Nicholas was a shy country gentleman, while his German-born empress, Alexandra Feodorovna, was an agoraphobic who was famously unpopular among the Russian people.
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In the euphoria of the uprisings in 2011, when one awful Arab autocrat after another was toppled, it seemed as if the Arabs were at last turning towards democracy.
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The uprising led to the replacement of the country's longtime autocrat, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, with a democracy that recently completed its second set of free presidential elections.
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But there is a tendency to view it merely as sad and remote, a familiar story of yet another autocrat in a country struggling with a transition to democracy.
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Guess it's true what they say: you can lead a girl to books about the rise and fall of an autocrat, but you still can't make her think. pic.twitter.
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Tunisia has been in turmoil since autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled in 2011 in the first "Arab Spring" uprising, sparked by anger at unemployment and poverty.
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Tunisia is hailed as the Arab Spring's only democratic success because protests toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 without triggering upheaval like in Syria or Libya.
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"If the United States were to be led by a near-autocrat and if Japan cooperates just to please him, that would break the whole world system," he said.
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And while it's not quite right to say that Erdoğan has changed his approach to being an autocrat, he has certainly steered into the anti-democratic skid of late.
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It has been seven years since popular uprisings swept across Egypt, forcing the ouster of another autocrat, Hosni Mubarak, who had once served as head of the air force.
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But that goal will be sadly compromised if Ms. Brnabic is approved only to become the tool of an autocrat, or discarded to further Mr. Vucic's sweeping political ambitions.
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Perhaps that's because Mr. Arpaio has always represented what Mr. Trump aspires to be: a thuggish autocrat who enforces the law as he pleases, without accountability or personal consequence.
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Tunisia faces urgent economic problems after relative decline in the nine years since the ouster of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who died in exile in September.
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Another Macron stumble — the decision to go to Algiers to tell an autocrat that France should apologize for its colonial-era "crimes against humanity" — caused the mayor to explode.
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Looking back on the election, it seems clear to me that the concerns of many pundits that Donald Trump would be some sort of Mussolini-like autocrat were ridiculous.
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His autocrat-friendly outlook and his campaigns to undercut the effort to stem the tide of corruption across Eastern Europe are unfortunately taking root as America's de facto position.
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People danced in the streets — anything was better than the enfeebled nonagenarian autocrat who had all but destroyed the economy of a country rich in resources and human potential.
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He has also shown, once again, that he prefers the word of an autocrat to that of the CIA, which believes the crown prince is to blame for Khashoggi's murder.
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The Brotherhood won the first free elections after the 2011 uprising that ended autocrat Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but was toppled by the army after a year in power.
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Opponents of President Beji Caid Essebsi have accused him before of trying to concentrate power in his hands, six years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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" Speaking aboard Air Force One on a trip to Montana, Trump said he believed he forged a personal connection with the young autocrat he once pilloried as "Little Rocket Man.
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The exiled autocrat was a 29-year-old officer when he overthrew the president, the sole ruler since the country's independence, in a coup that was welcomed at the time.
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When figures like Manfred Weber, the EPP's candidate for the European Commission presidency, coddle the Hungarian autocrat, they are implicitly acting as if Hungary's embattled liberal tendencies do not exist.
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It was the middle of January and Egyptian police were braced for political protests ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 20143 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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They chose Saturday for their march to coincide with the April 6 anniversary of a 1985 military coup that forced long-time autocrat Jaafar Nimeiri to step down after protests.
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It is ironic that the only semi-serious party is that of Ms Fujimori, whose father spurned political parties when he ruled the country as an autocrat in the 1990s.
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Accusing the opposition or the media of being part of an "elite," or a "deep state" allows an autocrat to paint those who point out problems as having ulterior motives.
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Tunisia's transition since a 2011 uprising overthrew autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has been hailed as a model for the Arab world with free elections and a new constitution.
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Turkey is a fellow NATO member but has a complicated relationship with the US. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's critics view him as a dangerous autocrat and enemy to democracy.
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Thousands of students and other protesters, who see Vucic as an autocrat, rallied in Belgrade last week to protest at his victory and what they see as a fraudulent election.
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Tunisia's parliament on Wednesday approved a law protecting officials accused of graft during the rule of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, triggering angry protests by the opposition and activists.
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Mr. Ruzimuradov was incarcerated during the rule of President Islam Karimov, a ruthless autocrat who tolerated no dissent and silenced the news media during his nearly three decades in power.
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If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity.
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Tunisia faces urgent economic problems after a relative decline in the nine years since the ouster of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who died in exile in September.
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And there was the Donald J. Trump under siege back home, depicted as an autocrat abusing the power of his office to take down domestic opponents and win re-election.
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Some critics called Tuesday's arrest "politically motivated" given the long-standing animosity between Najib and Mahathir, his ex-mentor and a former autocrat who is no stranger to jailing opponents.
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All that can be said for now is that, in such a moment, illiberalism and xenophobia in the hands of a would-be autocrat will make for a dangerous brew.
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In some ways, the S-400 is a poorly designed purchase for an insecure autocrat – particularly anyone whose deepest fear is that one day they might face U.S.-backed "regime change".
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And the early years of Mr Erdogan's tenure, when he was seen as a liberalising democrat, saw rapid economic growth; his transformation into an emerging autocrat has not put investors off.
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With 71% of the vote, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev easily won the election, which was called after the resignation in March of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocrat who had ruled for three decades.
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Like many other leaders of the time, he was an autocrat, instituting one-party rule on the ground that democracy was "an over-sophisticated pastime which we in Africa cannot afford".
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It is common to hear Iraqis long for a military strongman like Egypt's general-cum-president, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, or a Chinese-style autocrat, to rid Iraq of democracy's curse.
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The U.S. leader further spurred projections of a watered-down deal when he repeatedly said at the start of Thursday's talks that he didn't want to hurry the North Korean autocrat.
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Foes say Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader who narrowly won election after Chavez's death in 2013, is an incompetent autocrat who is to blame for the economic problems.
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Daley, who served as President Barack Obama's top staffer for a little over a year, slammed Trump as an ineffectual leader and claimed Trump had run his businesses as an autocrat.
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"Because we've had eight years of a president, he's an autocrat, he just does it on his own, he ignores Congress, and every single day, we're slipping into anarchy," he said.
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The protests were the worst since the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali five years ago and underscored how vulnerable the North African country remains to social unrest.
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Manafort spun his contacts in Washington, pinballing reports among legislators that painted Yanukovych as some kind of reformer, and enlisting former Western politicos to act as mouthpieces for Ukraine's budding autocrat.
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Before President Donald Trump sits down with a third-generation North Korean autocrat, he will face what may well turn out to be a tougher crowd — some of America's oldest allies.
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As he toured the streets on a night-time walkabout and posed for selfies with the Singaporean foreign minister, he was treated more like a rock star than a pariah autocrat.
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On the world stage, Cameron committed British military support for the Libyan opposition that overthrew autocrat Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, a decision he defended despite the years of chaos that ensued.
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But over the years, he has shown his true colors as an autocrat, skilled at promoting economic populism, militant nationalism and social conservatism — all while cultivating his own cult of personality.
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Its main mission is to provide revisionist interpretations of 20th-century Hungarian history — including the reign of Miklos Horthy, the autocrat who led Hungary before and during the Second World War.
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But later, many at home and abroad denounced him as a power-obsessed autocrat willing to unleash death squads, rig elections and trash the economy in the relentless pursuit of control.
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On the other side of the workroom, installed autocrat The Vixen set about demonstrating that it can happen here by assigning roles outright, without accepting any input from her team members.
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He denounces the press as "the enemy of the people," derides his critics as treasonous and openly fawns over an autocrat whose modern-day gulags practice extermination, torture and sexual violence.
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Tunisia's economy has been in turmoil since autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled in a 2011 uprising sparked by anger at unemployment and poverty and record levels of inflation.
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Unemployment, 15% nationally and 30% in some cities, is higher than it was under the former autocrat, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who died last month in exile in Saudi Arabia.
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After all, if they have learned nothing else, German Turks should know that their adopted country once rejected democracy in favor of an autocrat promising big things — and with disastrous results.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Popular Force leader Keiko Fujimori, a twice-defeated presidential candidate and the daughter of former autocrat Alberto Fujimori, accused Vizcarra of trying to stage a legislative coup d'etat.
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CAIRO — An Egyptian prosecutor ordered Hosni Mubarak, the toppled autocrat, released from the Maadi Military Hospital in southern Cairo, where he has been held for much of the last six years.
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Kim Jong Un's decision to hold the parade a day before the Olympics start could be in response to "negative South Korean press mocking" the young North Korean autocrat, Pregent added.
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After Islam Karimov, another Soviet-era autocrat in neighboring Uzbekistan, died in office in 2016, Mr. Nazarbayev watched as the Uzbeks jailed the former president's allies and dismantled his security services.
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At the time, those options seemed more attractive to soccer fans because, well, they have great soccer facilities and cultures — and are also not run by an autocrat like Vladimir Putin.
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"I think - and all Egyptians think - how hard and hopeless and really dark those days were," Sisi said, referring to the two years after the 2011 overthrow of veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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While Mugabe is viewed in the West as an autocrat who has led his country into economic ruin, he enjoys enduring respect in Africa as a hero of the anti-imperialist movement.
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" Speaking aboard Air Force One on his trip to the Montana rally, Trump said he believed he forged a personal connection with the young autocrat he once pilloried as "Little Rocket Man.
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Ahmed Douma, 27, was one of the leading secular activists behind the country's 2011 uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak and was later a fierce critic of the Muslim Brotherhood during Morsi' rule.
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But the fact that he was a successful autocrat didn't mean he was competent; his reign ended when he blundered France into catastrophic military defeat at the hands of the rising Prussians.
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Trump didn't just give that to Erdogan, he wrapped it up as a nice gift, with acclaim for the Turkish autocrat and a prized invitation to visit the White House next month.
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Egypt has struggled to revive its economy since a popular uprising in 2011 that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak but drove away tourists and foreign investors, the country's major sources of foreign currency.
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Since the toppling of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, Tunisia's economy has been in crisis and nine cabinets have failed to resolve economic problems, including high inflation and unemployment.
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Relations between the Ultras and security forces have been tense for four years after the fans played a key role in the 18 days of street protests that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Tunisia's transition to democracy has been hailed as the success story of the 2011 Arab Spring revolts, but economic development has floundered since the fall of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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And that failure may have had very serious consequences this time: the possible untimely deaths of five people at the hands of an autocrat with whom Trump says he fell in love.
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NOT long ago it all looked so much better: oil prices were high, the middle classes were growing and the autocrat-father of the state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, presided over 17m grateful subjects.
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Instability can appear suddenly when the autocrat fails to anticipate a palace coup or a social upheaval due to social and economic tensions because there is no stabilizing mechanism other than oppression.
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Egypt needs hard currency after burning through its foreign exchange reserves as political turmoil hit foreign investment and tourism since the 2011 popular uprising that ousted former autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.
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On the cusp of President Donald Trump's planned meeting with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, released indictments with profound implications for relations between the two countries.
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Rather than try to avoid aggravating an autocrat, the EU should stand behind its core values, terminate Turkey's accession process and reset its bilateral relationship on a more credible and strategic footing.
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"Guess it's true what they say: you can lead a girl to books about the rise and fall of an autocrat, but you still can't make her think," she wrote on Wednesday.
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It's a great day for an autocrat and a great way for a dictator to demonstrate his capability to hold democracy and freedom throughout the world in check through force of arms.
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Erdogan should be treated like any other autocrat offending liberal values and acting at odds with U.S. foreign policy — told, without insult or flattery, that the United States plans to distance itself.
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In Mr. Castro, they saw a cantankerous autocrat who failed to string together a few coherent sentences when a journalist asked why his government continues to detain people for their political beliefs.
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As Kanter notes in the video, he has been critical in the past—and, as he reiterates in the video, the present, as well—of Turkey's increasingly autocratic autocrat, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Many of Solidarity's intellectual leaders, who were steeped in the Western tradition of limited government, broke with Walesa when he ran for president, fearing that he planned to become a new autocrat.
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Her mother, Imelda (Alanna Noël Ubach), is a furious matriarch on the other side of the grave, while Coco's daughter, Miguel's Abuelita (Renée Victor), is a no-nonsense flesh-and-blood autocrat.
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And by spotlighting Saudi Arabia as a murderous neighborhood bully, Mr. Erdogan is now in position to rally the Turkish people around a common enemy, the time-tested tool of the autocrat.
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Hours after Trump's call with Putin, The Washington Post reported that the President's briefing materials on the call included a warning not to congratulate the Russian autocrat for his recent election victory.
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Every autocrat has an obsession, and one of President Donald Trump's is targeting immigrants as part of a crusade to rally his base and keep America a majority-white and Christian territory.
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At the other end of the scale is former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, an old-school autocrat who has recently been forced to cash his chips and check out of the club.
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Egypt, which relies heavily on imports, hasn't been able to recover since a popular uprising in 2011 toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, driving tourists and foreign investors away - major sources of hard currency.
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Eight years after the Arab Spring forced out autocrats elsewhere in the region, it seemed to finally be Algeria's turn: An autocrat had been forced to cede some power by the street.
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And Genet could easily unpack Trump's fixations — about President Obama's Kenyan patrimony, about the appeal of a Russian autocrat, and even about Trump's self-mythologizing link between small hands and large genitalia.
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State social security funds have a deficit of about $1 billion as the economy has been in turmoil since a 2011 uprising which toppled autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, according to officials.
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Tarred in the minds of many Peruvians because her father ruled as an autocrat, Ms Fujimori has played a destructive role in the country's politics, organising the censure by congress of competent ministers.
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Erdogan seeks to become an omnipotent autocrat protected by popular support and a veneer of democracy -- something along the lines of what President Vladimir Putin has achieved in Russia as an elected dictator.
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The country is becoming accustomed to the president of the United States speaking like an autocrat, lamenting that he is not sufficiently able to use the federal government to pursue his political enemies.
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The demonstrations that began in the impoverished town of Kasserine on Tuesday and spread across the country are the most serious since the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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State social security funds suffer from a deficit of about $22018 billion as the economy has been in turmoil since the 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, according to officials.
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"This shows that Rosneft has no hangups about expanding its footprint in the world's largest oil patch, even with Maduro becoming an autocrat," said Raul Gallegos, an analyst with the consultancy Control Risks.
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Alaa Abdel Fattah, a blogger and software engineer, was a leading voice amongst the liberal young Egyptians who initially led the 2011 uprising that ended the 30-year rule of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Egypt's economy has been struggling since the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak, but the government hopes the three-year IMF loan will put the country on the right track.
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In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, a democratically elected president, packed the country's Supreme Court with his allies and locked up human rights activists; his successor, Nicolás Maduro, has ruled as a flat-out autocrat.
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On December 6, 20093, days before Djulfa's catastrophic destruction, Nakhichevan's local autocrat Vasif Talibov, a relative of President Aliyev, issued public decree No. 5-03/S, ordering a detailed inventory of Nakhichevan's monuments.
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Sensitive to the perception of embracing another illiberal autocrat, administration officials insisted during a conference call with reporters on Friday that the government had raised concerns about Mr. Orban's actions at lower levels.
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One would think that at a tête-à-tête with the Russian autocrat, the president of the United States would take on some of the major concerns of America and its closest allies.
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Sudan's ruling council and rebel groups restarted peace talks last October to end years-long conflicts, after a transitional government was put in place following the fall of veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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The very same principles and institutions that permit the outsiders to challenge the establishment — especially free speech, internally competitive political parties and laws — soon become the targets of the autocrat once in office.
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UNCERTAIN ATMOSPHERE Unemployment, 15% nationally and 30% in some cities, is higher than it was under the former autocrat, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who died last month in exile in Saudi Arabia.
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Sudan's ruling council and rebel groups restarted peace talks last October to end years-long conflicts, after a transitional government was put in place following the fall of veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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" When the two leaders met in Singapore in June, Trump praised the young autocrat, saying Kim had "to be a rough guy," but that he's "smart, loves his people, he loves his country.
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He is a wannabe autocrat, who has made his goal clear: to remake America as he has remade the Republican Party -- turning a once-proud, strong party into a gaggle of sycophantic lickspittles.
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Tunisia has been hailed as the Arab Spring's only democratic success because street protests toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 without triggering violent upheaval, as happened in Syria and Libya.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Conservative politician Aleksandar Vucic was sworn in as Serbian president on Wednesday, cheered by thousands of supporters, some of whom briefly clashed with opposition protesters who accuse him of being an autocrat.
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Tunisia has been praised for its democratic progress after its 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, but successive governments have failed to pursue economic reforms to trim deficits and create growth.
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For the North, that was a deeply provocative comparison, because Libyan autocrat Moammar Gadhafi was killed following U.S.-supported military action in his country about seven years after giving up his fledgling nuclear program.
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The ruling on Wednesday includes 23 other suspected members of the group, which rose to power through elections after the 2011 uprising that toppled a longtime autocrat but is now branded a terrorist organization.
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Mrs Merkel and Mr Orban sit in the same group in the European Parliament and Manfred Weber, her party's candidate for the European Commission presidency, has a record of indulgence towards the Hungarian autocrat.
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"It is not a serious presidential campaign and it is beyond one's imagination to have candidate for president praising a Russian autocrat like Vladimir Putin and throwing his lot in with him," she said.
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Since a 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has fallen into factional fighting among battalions of former rebels who have turned against one another, backing competing political leaders in a struggle for control.
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Far from being a "showman", Nursultan Nazarbayev, the departing president of Kazakhstan, is a shrewd autocrat who has put his country on the map during his 30-year rule ("A showman exits", March 203rd).
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In an incident similar to the self-immolation in 2011 that sparked the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, the vendor in Tebourba poured gasoline over himself and set it ablaze.
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The emergence of an online market for light arms in Libya was triggered by the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, the quasi-dictator and autocrat who ruled the African nation for more than 40 years.
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The cynicism of an autocrat who has ruled for 28-years, coupled with the assertiveness of a young leader eager to prove himself, means their rivalry is more likely to escalate rather than deescalate.
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Put aside that the survival of Assad is a boon for Iran and Russia, a boon for any autocrat who refuses to compromise, and a boon to any rogue state which defies U.S. norms.
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Political corruption and human rights are also likely to be in focus in a country divided over former autocrat leader Alberto Fujimori, whose pardon from prison by the current president has sparked national protests.
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Jammeh, an autocrat who had banned opposition protests and pledged to rule Gambia for a "billion years", shocked Gambians by admitting defeat, raising questions about what had persuaded him that the game was up.
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The test of an autocrat like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan isn't how he came to power, but how he treats critics, journalists, minorities, and whether his rule can go unchecked by constitutional limits.
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In 2007, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger defended the school's decision to host a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by saying that it was an excellent opportunity for the autocrat to be confronted.
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Mr. McMullin is happy to unload on Mr. Trump, calling him a con man and autocrat who promotes racial tensions, degrades women and disregards the Constitution and basic American ideas about fairness and compassion.
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Going forward, Mr. Putin's legacy depends on which personality prevails: the genuine reformer of the last decade or the inward autocrat of this decade, aggressively provocative abroad and cautious to a fault at home.
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A few hours before, Mr. Yameen, who had already begun getting a reputation as an autocrat, declared a state of emergency, suspending several constitutional rights and giving himself sweeping powers to arrest and detain.
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His pleading flickers on a fading tape in the archive of a television station: Teodoro sweating at the party convention, imploring hundreds of party militants to see that Mr. Chávez was a populist autocrat.
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An aspiring autocrat is only as powerful as his enablers, and Mr. Trump hit the jackpot in Mr. Barr, who is now taking control of all cases involving the president, including Mr. Stone's conviction.
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In February, she said that al-Assad, described by human rights advocates and humanitarian observers as a vicious autocrat, was actually "not the enemy of the United States," according to The New York Times.
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Sudan's ruling council and rebel groups restarted peace talks last October to end years-long conflicts, after a transitional government was put in place following the fall of 30-year autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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All an autocrat on the run has to do is create a shell company to hide his identity and the source of his illicit wealth, and then use this instrument to purchase property incognito.
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Like any autocrat, he wins his followers' trust — let's call it a blind trust — by lying so often and so brazenly that millions of people give up on trying to distinguish truth from falsehood.
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In a nail-biting finish to Peru's presidential election, center-right technocrat Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is apparently inching towards the narrowest of victories over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of disgraced 2130s autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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In a nail-biting finish to Peru's presidential election, center-right technocrat Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is apparently inching towards the narrowest of victories over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of disgraced 1990s autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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Opportunities and jobs are a constant demand by younger Tunisians frustrated that economic progress has not matched the political transition to democracy since the uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali as president.
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The North African country has been hailed as the Arab Spring's only democratic success because protests toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 without triggering violent upheaval, as happened in Syria and Libya.
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Democracy's infinite adaptability Korean democracy is very different from its American counterpart: The Korean democratic state is young; it was founded in 1948, and it has only been a truly autocrat-free democracy since 1987.
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Other government proposals would recreate a senate, abolished by Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto, who ruled Peru as an autocrat in the 1990s, and give constitutional status to a law banning corporate donations to political parties.
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The North African country has been hailed as the Arab Springs only democratic success because protests toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 without triggering violent upheaval, as happened in Syria and Libya.
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The North African country is in the middle of a deep economic crisis since the toppling of autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 threw Tunisia into turmoil with unemployment and inflation shooting up.
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Lawmakers from both parties see Putin as an autocrat responsible for ensuring that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad retains power and blocking numerous US attempts to find a diplomatic solution to Syria's brutal civil war.
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A brawl broke out at a rally for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in New York Thursday, the second time in recent months that an appearance by the Turkish autocrat has sparked violence on U.S. soil.
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Essebsi rose to prominence after the overthrow of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, which was followed by Arab Spring uprisings against authoritarian leaders across the Middle East, including in nearby Libya and Egypt.
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But later, many at home and abroad denounced him as a power-obsessed autocrat willing to unleash death squads against his political enemies, rig elections and trash the economy in the relentless pursuit of control.
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Doctors have played a central role, along with other professionals, in organizing the mass protests that recently toppled the longtime autocrat Omar Hassan al-Bashir and fostered a powerful, if still uncertain, pro-democracy movement.
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Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist Donald Trump, a lying, bullying, womanizing autocrat-idolizer, is fundamentally transforming America in very real and lasting ways, in ways that have left decent people slack-jawed, enraged and exasperated.
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Among the same 150 countries, I found 138 cases in which an economy grew at a pace of 3 percent or slower for a decade, and 100 of those economies were led by an autocrat.
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Mass protests that followed Bouazizi's funeral in December 2010 toppled the veteran autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who died in exile in Saudi Arabia in September, and introduced democracy in the North Africa country.
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His appearance coincided with a Senate vote on the U.S.-supported, Saudi-led coalition intervention in Yemen's civil war, and, eager to avoid angering the young autocrat, the Trump administration urged Congress to stand down.
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Sisi mostly wants to keep his critics out of Tahrir Square, the symbolic hub of the Arab Spring, to impede a replay of the dramatic scenes which in 2011 brought down a decades-long autocrat.
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The strike was the biggest since the assassination of opposition politician Chokri Belaid in February 2013, when Tunisia was navigating a rocky transition to democracy after the toppling of autocrat Ben Ali two years earlier.
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Trump has become freer to turn his whims into policy — like, say, shutting down the government on the advice of Fox News hosts or pulling troops from Syria on the advice of a Turkish autocrat.
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On Monday, Italy's new strongman Matteo Salvini, head of the far-right League and the country's Interior Minister, sang the praises of the Russian autocrat, fueling worries about where he's taking the country's foreign policy.
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Not only is it lorded over by RuPaul, a benevolent queen wearing a crown of fake curls, but this season we saw the weekly election of an autocrat who got to eliminate one of their competitors.
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Other candidates who have announced their intention to run include liberal former Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and Moncef Marzouki, who served as interim president for three years after autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled.
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If this were a tin-pot, third-world potentate, we'd probably write the leader off as an autocrat, fast-forwarding his rule to do all the fun bits first -- like burying the last guy's proudest achievements.
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Six years after their revolt ousted autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's central and southern regions are still flashpoints for rioting in marginalized towns where many young Tunisians see little economic progress since the uprising.
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In an election on December 1st, out went President Yahya Jammeh, an autocrat who had ruled for 22 years, and in came Adama Barrow, a former security guard at a high-street discount store in London.
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But that would appal many of his own supporters, who voted for him purely to stop Ms Fujimori, whose father controversially ruled Peru as an autocrat in the 1990s and is serving jail sentences for corruption.
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Nearly four decades after the country's independence from Britain in 1980, he was regarded by many as an autocrat, willing to unleash death squads, rig elections and trash the economy in the relentless pursuit of power.
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The tensions in Tuz Khurmatu risk further fragmenting Iraq, a major OPEC oil exporter, as it struggles to contain Islamic State, the gravest security threat since a U.S.-led invasion toppled autocrat Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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Western governments are giving Tunisia financial and military aid to support its young democracy, which they are holding up as a model for the region since its 2011 uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Trump's actions are closer to an autocrat like Russia's Vladimir Putin, who likes to humiliate the oligarchs of his country, than they are to the classic American tradition of trust-busting exemplified by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Since an uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, Tunisia has a new constitution, free elections and a coalition government with secular and Islamist parties in a region otherwise struggling with upheaval.
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While many Peruvians credit Mr Fujimori with saving Peru's economy from hyperinflationary chaos and eliminating the threat from Shining Path, a Maoist terrorist group, he governed as an autocrat and presided over systematic bribery and corruption.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial law granting amnesty to officials accused of corruption during the rule of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, triggering angry protests from the opposition and activists outside.
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Since autocrat Ben Ali was overthrown, Tunisia has managed free elections, introduced a new constitution and harnessed a spirit of compromise between secular and Islamist parties to become a model of political change for the region.
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As Kraft tells the story now, the Super Bowl ring wound up in Putin's pocket through a chain of events that might naturally happen when two billionaires are in a room with a shark-eyed autocrat.
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For the West, Mr. Erdogan has devolved from a righteous hope — would-be proof that Islam and democracy can peacefully coexist — into another autocrat whose populism, bombast and contempt for the ledger books have yielded calamity.
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Mourou was placed next to Abir Moussi, one of two women in the race and a supporter of the ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, whose government banned Ennahda and jailed many of its members.
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Once established as the autocrat, Hitler went back to reading nothing but trash ethnology and the westerns of Karl May, whereas Stalin went back to reading Dickens, Chekhov, Gogol, Hemingway, Zola, Balzac, Maupassant and Oscar Wilde.
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The company has been suffering losses since the ousting of Tunisia's autocrat President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and faces increased competition as the country negotiates an Open Skies agreement with the European Union.
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Tunisia has been praised for its democratic progress since its 22017 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, but successive governments have failed to push through potentially painful reforms to trim deficits and create growth.
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After forcing the plane to land in Malta, one of the hijackers emerged with a flag in the green that symbolized Colonel Qaddafi's rule, and claimed to have established a new political party honoring the autocrat.
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Tunisia's economic progress has fallen behind since the 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali that bought the country to full democracy and triggered "Arab Spring" revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East.
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Tunisia is one of the Arab world's most secular nations, and became a target for militants after being hailed as a beacon of democratic change with an uprising against autocrat Zine Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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LePage is claiming that Barack Obama is an "autocrat" who ignores the "rule of law," but that the way to reverse that is to bring in "Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power," which would be … good?
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But some of Mugabe's opponents are uneasy about the prominent role played by the military, and fear Zimbabwe might be swapping one army-backed autocrat for another, rather than allowing the people to choose their next leader.
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You may disagree with them, but rather than choosing the side of a brutal autocrat that means to harm and weaken our republic, you think about ways to make persuasive arguments for a conservative point of view.
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During his election campaign, Trump adopted a more open-minded stance on Putin than current U.S. officials who consider him an autocrat bent on suppressing dissent at home while bullying his neighbors and projecting Russia's power abroad.
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Nursultan Nazarbayev carved out a powerful position for himself, set in motion a transition that should protect his family's interests, and even had the capital city renamed in his honor — a model exit for any aspiring autocrat.
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It was a quixotic venture that ended in defeat at the hands of Alberto Fujimori, who went on to rule as an autocrat for ten years (and who is a particular bête noire for Mr Vargas Llosa).
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That number is still well below the 20153 million who visited Egypt in 2010, ahead of the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak and ushered in a prolonged period of political and social upheaval.
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Oh, and if you needed more reason to be suspicious of our president's relationship with Russia, Oliver gladly points out that Trump has been far nicer to the murderous autocrat than he has been to Meryl Streep.
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LIMA/VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis next week visits Peru, a country divided over former autocrat leader Alberto Fujimori, whose pardon from prison by the current president has reopened wounds from one of the country's darkest periods.
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Tunisia has been praised for its democratic progress after the 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, but successive governments have failed to advance in economic reforms to trim deficits and create jobs and growth.
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Since the deal he has pressed ahead in his quest to become an autocrat, rejecting European criticisms with threats to scupper the refugee deal and let hundreds of thousands of refugees make their way to Greece again.
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That the country is not ready for power-sharing and democratic institutions is an argument with some validity, but most Libyans, while they reject militias on both camps, do not seek to have another autocrat in power.
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He was named prime minister four times in the 1990s as Mobutu contended with pro-democratic currents in the country, but Tshisekedi never lasted more than a few months as he repeatedly clashed with the charismatic autocrat.
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The autumn parliamentary and presidential elections will be only the third set of polls in which Tunisians can vote freely following the 2011 revolution that toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled for 23 years.
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We can no longer say with confidence that "it can't happen in America" — "it" being the transformation of a seemingly stable democracy into a fascist state, led by an autocrat who gains power through lies and propaganda.
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"Perhaps he wants to get attention, and perhaps not," he said of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, an autocrat with whom Mr. Trump has worked to forge warm relations in pursuit of a denuclearization agreement.
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His remarks accorded with Mr. Trump's positive view of the Russian president, which had prompted speculation about what Mr. Trump saw in Mr. Putin — more commonly denounced in the United States as a ruthless, anti-Western autocrat.
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I believe that he will live to regret his vote as he watches this great country devolve into a shameful example of what happens when a would-be autocrat flexes his muscles and is allowed to prevail.
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Mass protests that followed Bouazizi's funeral resulted in January 2011 in a revolution that pushed from power the veteran autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who died in exile in Saudi Arabia in September, and introduced democracy.
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Hamdok, a former U.N. diplomat, took office in August under an agreement between the military and civilian parties in Sudan after months of demonstrations against generals who seized power after toppling long-serving autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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Mr. Trump has drawn the line with one autocrat: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, whose chemical weapons strike on his own people prompted the American president to order a Tomahawk missile strike on a Syrian airfield.
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Ms. Fujimori's father, Alberto Fujimori, is currently serving a 25-year jail sentence for corruption and human rights abuses that occurred after he dissolved Congress and the judiciary and ruled Peru as an autocrat for a decade.
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Take authoritarianism: Why did Egyptians vote overwhelmingly for Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in that country's 2014 presidential election, choosing to be led by an autocrat just a few years after the democratic hopefulness of the Arab Spring?
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This past week Mr. Bolton journeyed to Ankara to discuss the American role in the Syrian civil war with Turkish government officials, only to run smack into another autocrat with a short fuse, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Anger at public services that are seen as worse than under Tunisia's pre-revolution autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who died in exile in September, has undermined the trust of some Tunisians in its political establishment.
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The constitution, adopted in 2014 after the uprising of 2011 that ousted autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, significantly erodes the previously extensive power of the presidency and gives the prime minister and parliament a much bigger role.
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It's also possible that Kim was unhappy the US tested an ICBM of its own last week (officially unrelated to North Korea), which the autocrat might have viewed as a serious provocation and therefore decided to lash out.
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Her bet, however, is that by celebrating Brexit and hobnobbing with the Russian autocrat, she can present herself as part of a glorious worldwide march of nationalists, who are destined to defeat pusillanimous globalisers such as Mr Macron.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former autocrat Alberto Fujimori, was arrested on Wednesday as part of a far-reaching campaign financing probe, striking a fresh blow to the country's most powerful conservative movement.
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The North African country's economy has been hit hard since the overthrow of former autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and two major militant attacks in 2015, all of which have deterred tourists and investors alike.
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It was in Sidi Bouzid that mass protests erupted seven years ago and rapidly engulfed the rest of the North African country, sweeping away autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings.
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Drafted in as prime minister in 2011 after veteran autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled, Essebsi was elected president three years later, becoming the country's first directly elected head of state after its "Arab Spring" uprising.
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The killing occurred with the military council and civilian opposition wrangling over final details of a power-sharing agreement ahead of elections after veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir was toppled in a coup following weeks of mass protests.
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One surprise late entry could have been eccentric Gambian autocrat Yahyah Jammeh, who stunned his 1.8 million countrymen - and most of the rest of Africa - when he accepted defeat in a December election after 22 years in charge.
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Now, five out of the 10 largest economies (the U.S. China, India, Brazil and Italy) in the world, which jointly account for two-thirds of the global economy, are led by populists or, in China's case, an autocrat.
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Prime Minister Youssef Chahed is walking a tightrope, sitting on a weak coalition of secular and Islamist forces who have often clashed over the country's direction since the toppling of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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Sure, the US was then quietly starving hundreds of thousands of children with a crippling sanctions regime against autocrat Saddam Hussein's Iraq, occasionally lobbing cruise missiles at "terrorist" encampments here or there, and garrisoning much of the globe.
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When passing the law, Senator John Sherman declared, "If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade..." Why, then, isn't anything being done about Big Tech violating the Sherman Act?
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The series tracks Catherine over the course of her 34-year reign, as she evolves from an idealistic, vulnerable usurper warding off enemies on all sides into a tyrannical autocrat who no longer dreams of liberalizing the country.
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India under them fulfills, to a startling degree, the American president's irascible fantasy of what the United States should be: a country cravenly surrendering its traditions of law and decency before a perpetually inflamed and ham-handed autocrat.
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With his "alternative facts," his scapegoating of foreigners and international trade, and his barrage of executive orders, Mr. Trump confirmed what the opposition had feared: that he will run the country like a populist autocrat and paranoid protectionist.
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Tunisia was the only country to oust a long-serving autocrat during the "Arab Spring" uprisings without triggering large scale unrest or civil war - and has won widespread praise for its democratic transition, new constitution and free elections.
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Protests have become extremely rare in Egypt since a law passed in 2013 banned demonstrations not approved by the Interior Ministry, taking away a right earned in the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat President Hosni Mubarak.
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Earlier on Wednesday evening, the opposition and the TMC agreed to form a committee to resolve their disagreements, amid tensions over how long it will take to move to civilian rule after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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The headline act is likely to be a weird love-fest between the veteran autocrat and the wannabe, but we should be able to distinguish between reality and theatricality—and worry about everything else that is going on, instead.
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Our country continues to be lead by a dangerously childish wannabe autocrat more interested in being liked than accomplishing anything, even for the people who voted him into office, but it's been part of a remarkable year for games.
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Tunisia has been praised for its democratic progress after a 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali but successive governments have failed to create jobs for young people, some of whom head to Europe to seek work.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is not an autocrat and is taking seriously a report by the U.S. intelligence community that names the firebrand leader among the threats to democracy in Southeast Asia, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
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But none of this has reassured Haftar's opponents, who see the one-time Gaddafi ally, freshly promoted by the parliament based in the east to the rank of marshal from general, as a new military autocrat in the making.
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Libya's economy depends almost exclusively on oil export revenue and the fight over who controls those funds has driven chronic instability and civil war since long-serving autocrat Gaddafi was toppled and killed by Western-backed rebels in 2011.
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It shows how deeply divided Peru is about the legacy of Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto, who ruled it as an autocrat from 22021 to 222; he is serving long prison terms for corruption and complicity in human-rights abuses.
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This is a crucial point because it shows that what the Russians did in 2016 was more or less in line with tactics they've been using since the Kremlin was run by Communists rather than an autocrat like Putin.
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But Trump has rejected the agencies' conclusions, and GOP leaders in both chambers, who oppose the creation of a select committee, have been put in the awkward spot of defending the president-elect's friendly approach to the Russian autocrat.
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When a president appears weak and ineffectual in confronting an autocrat who seeks to destabilize the world's democracies, then the world in general becomes less respectful of freedom, liberty and the right of people to choose who governs them.
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What followed was a thumping: Mr. Kaine reeled off chapter and verse on Mr. Trump's musings on the Russian autocrat and Mr. Putin's own record as president, from Russia's struggling economy to his persecution of gay people and journalists.
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"I would like some assurances that he is going to be a vigorous defender of the U.S. Constitution, that he is not going to be an autocrat, that he is not going to be an authoritarian," Mr. Lee said.
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The story lines, with their aggrieved outsiders and collapsing families, prophesied our current condition, post-9/11 — plagued as we are by forever wars, increasing wealth disparity and the oppressive rise of the autocrat, the bigot, the corporate state.
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Essebsi has been a prominent figure in Tunisia since the overthrow of veteran autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, which was followed by uprisings against authoritarian leaders across the Middle East, including in nearby Libya and Egypt.
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Sudan: A semi-secret alliance of doctors, lawyers, journalists, engineers and teachers organized under a bland name, the Sudanese Professionals Association, played a central role in organizing the mass protests that toppled the longtime autocrat Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has been hospitalized for "a health crisis" in Saudi Arabia, where he has lived in exile since the revolution of 2011, his lawyer Mounir Ben Salha said by phone.
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CreditCreditLena Mucha for The New York Times Opinion Columnist When the Ukrainian autocrat Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia after a popular uprising in 2014, thousands of citizens poured into Mezhyhirya, his 340-acre estate on the outskirts of Kiev.
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During the town hall, Trump paid homage to Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, declaring him to be a better leader than President Obama and praising Putin for his "strong control" over Russia as well as his 82 percent approval ratings.
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The 8,000 Foreign Service officers are not sure how to defend American values under a president who has entertained the idea of torture, shown contempt for the Constitution, and never met an autocrat who failed to elicit his sympathy.
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Following the protesters' ousting of veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April, women only hold two of the six civilian positions in Sudan's 11-member Sovereign Council, which will run the country for three years until elections take place.
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MOSCOW/YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian voters are set to propel Vladimir Putin to another term as president in an election on Sunday, giving him credit for standing up for Russia against Western governments that view him as a dangerous autocrat.
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"All the articles are a revision, a setback, a return to a system of rule that is worse than what existed before January 25," Tantawi said, referring to the 2011 uprising that forced long-serving autocrat Hosni Mubarak to step down.
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Tunisia has been praised for its democratic progress after a 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali but successive governments have failed to create jobs for young people, some of whom head illegally to Europe to seek work.
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Kim, up until his recent high-profile summit with South Korea&aposs president on the southern side of their shared border, has usually hunkered down behind his vast propaganda and security services, or made short trips to autocrat-friendly China.
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Trump's Putin fandom is one of the most singularly enraging facts about his campaign for dedicated neocons, who view Putin as an autocrat who the US should meet with suspicion and military strength, not unlike the autocrats who rule Iran.
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An outspoken rights advocate and activist with Yemen's main Islamist party, Karman won the prize in 2011 after camping out in a tent for months in pro-democracy protests that eventually forced Yemen's veteran autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
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Here's an exchange from today's Fox News Sunday between host Chris Wallace and Trump's national security adviser John Bolton: Wallace: But this is not the first time that the president has taken the word of an autocrat over outside evidence.
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Tshisekedi, who formed Congo's first organized opposition platform, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), under longtime autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko in 1982, was runner-up in Kabila's 2011 re-election, a vote observers said was marred by massive fraud.
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While Trump offered sharp criticism of America's NATO allies during last week's summit, he praised President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an autocrat whose guards beat protesters on American soil, for saying he would bypass Turkey's parliament to increase its military spending.
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The Brotherhood, which estimates its membership at up to 1 million people, came to power in Egypt's first modern free election in 2012, a year after long-serving autocrat and U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising.
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But proposed new taxes and the halt to public wage increases included in the government's 2017 budget has worried many Tunisians already wary about the lack of economic progress since their 2011 revolution ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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If the Manbij deal holds — and is followed by other local agreements and handovers of power from Kurdish authority to Assad — it could grant the Syrian autocrat the last major victory he needs to solidify his rule over the country.
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That the organization is in the tank for Vladimir Putin -- an autocrat who is happy to compromise basic human rights, stand by as LGBT Russians are targeted and dozens of journalists are killed on his watch -- has not helped their case.
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In an interview on Yahoo News on Monday, Isikoff asked Flynn why he had attended an anniversary celebration for RT, the Putin propaganda machine, last year, sat next to the Russian autocrat at the celebratory dinner, and delivered a speech.
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The man who began his time in office with a candid assessment of Russia's future challenges is now a whining autocrat who blames all of his country's misfortunes on sinister forces in the "West" and particularly the United States and NATO.
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The Sudanese Professionals' Association (SPA), a group spearheading the popular revolt, has issued a long list of demands for wholesale change to end repression and ease an economic crisis after the military deposed veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir last week.
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The central bank has sought to limit access to hard currency to stem a fall of the dinar since the toppling of autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 plunged Tunisia into turmoil and left its economy in crisis.
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No longer the bold reformer bent on modernizing his kingdom — a favorite of President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — he is now regarded as an impulsive, unreliable autocrat who falls back on crude tactics to crush dissent.
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But his ousting in 2017 was accompanied by celebrations across the country of 13 million, and critics at home and abroad viewed him as a power-obsessed autocrat who unleashed death squads, rigged elections and ruined the economy to keep control.
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The raid, in which opposition-linked doctors say more than 100 people were killed, led to the collapse of stalled talks over a political transition toward elections and civilian rule following the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April.
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Just as Algerian protesters refused to leave the streets last week after their own aging autocrat, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, stepped down but left the ruling clique in place, so the Sudanese protesters vowed Thursday not to go home anytime soon.
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BEIJING — Propaganda departments in China and North Korea were in full swing on Wednesday as Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, concluded a two-day tour of China that painted the once-reclusive autocrat as a forward-looking leader.
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This will no doubt add grist to the arguments of those — the autocrat Viktor Orban, the French right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen — who conflate terrorists with immigrants in search of a better life and refugees fleeing deadly conflict.
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Most of the people on board the boat that sank on Sunday were Tunisians trying to escape unemployment and an economic crisis that has gripped the North African country since the toppling of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
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Or Mr. Trump could squander all the power and leverage of the United States by abusing and dividing our allies, then lavishing praise and freebies on an autocrat he admires who is set on undermining our democracy and global position.
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"Since the deal he has pressed ahead in his quest to become an autocrat, rejecting European criticisms with threats to scupper the refugee deal and let hundreds of thousands of refugees make their way to Greece again," the Economist writes.
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U.S. President Donald Trump failed to mention Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election during his opening exchange with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki Monday, prefering to give the autocrat a wink and a line of flattery about hosting the World Cup.
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He is also proving himself to be a ruthless autocrat responsible for the jailing of his critics, massive civilian casualties in Yemen and — if reports are accurate — the assassination of a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist outside of Saudi Arabia's borders.
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When government workers hired on the basis of merit are replaced by partisans, this not only removes one potential source of opposition to the executive branch; it enables a would-be autocrat to direct formidable prosecutorial and investigative apparatuses against political foes.
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The #Sissi_leave hashtag surfaced this summer following steep price hikes for fuel, drinking water and electricity as part of austerity measures designed to overhaul the economy, still recovering from years of turmoil following the 2011 popular uprising against longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Ignore for now the clownish jawboning, as if the White House can dictate the legislative calendar, or the fact that the president is the kind of simple-minded autocrat who might actually think he can fire Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader.
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What Linz couldn't have possibly foreseen was that a knavish autocrat would win the U.S. presidency through technically-legitimate-though-undemocratic means, and that he'd be allowed to arson the government by a coequal branch—Congress—that has the power to stop him.
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That's their right, but it is still hard, as a German, to see them hail a ruthless autocrat who has smashed Turkey's independent news media, arrested thousands of alleged supporters of the coup and is flirting with the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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During the campaign, Trump startled national security experts in both parties by extravagantly praising Putin while glossing over his invasions of neighboring countries, his killings of opposition figures and journalists, and his support for the murderous regime of Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad.
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"If you want the wider macro view then it's been 20 years since Vladimir Putin was installed as prime minister and subsequently president of Russia, and that's a long time whether you're an autocrat or a democrat — obviously he's the former," Nixey said.
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Gordon G. Chang, the author of a 2001 book titled " The Coming Collapse of China ," recently wrote a piece in The National Interest that praised Trump effusively for cutting "the ambitious autocrat down to size" during Xi's visit to Mar-a-Lago.
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Since an uprising toppled the autocrat President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, nine cabinets have failed to resolve Tunisia's economic problems and impatience is rising among foreign lenders such as the International Monetary Fund which have kept the country afloat.
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Habib Bourguiba Street, a tree-lined boulevard running from the principle gate of the Kasbah down to the Tunis port, was the focal point of the massive protests eight years ago that forced the old autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to flee.
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Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, an autocrat who led his country for 23 years before being toppled by bloody protests that unleashed a wave of revolt across the Arab world, died Thursday at age 83, according to his lawyer.
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Given his concern with Mr. Orban's historical revisionism, the way the autocrat has demonized the Jewish philanthropist George Soros, and his general xenophobia, what does Mr. Lapid make of the fact that Israel's current government has cozied up to the Hungarian leader?
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Eventually, when enough checks and balances have been removed, a would-be autocrat finds it easier to neuter democracy itself, by shutting down the opposition (as in Turkey) or neutering the legislature (as in Venezuela, where the government staged a sham election on May 20th).
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There has long been anti-US feeling within the Turkish government and public — partly because of rampant conspiracy theories about America secretly plotting to crush Turkey, and Washington's much-disliked Middle East policies — but the autocrat ratcheted up the language to a whole new level.
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In Cambodia the autocrat, Hun Sen, collects titles such as "Illustrious Prince, Great Supreme Protector and Famed Warrior" in conscious emulation of the former god-kings of Angkor Wat, the jungle complex which itself was built to represent the centre of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sudanese women were a driving force during months of protests that ousted veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir, but the sexual violence they endured risks being forgotten with the signing of a power-sharing deal, women's rights activists said on Thursday.
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The protest, which followed a two-day strike organized by demonstrators and opposition groups frustrated by a deadlock in talks on a transition to democracy, underscores the volatility of the situation in Sudan nearly two months after the military overthrew autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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He replaces Hany Dimian, who oversaw the finance ministry during a period of modest economic recovery after years of anemic growth following the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak and led to prolonged political upheaval, along with an increase in Islamist militant attacks.
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Traditional American bi-partisan support for Saudi Arabia, which goes back to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has been reduced, because of MbS's hubris and repression, to a personal relationship between the the Saudi autocrat and the current US president and his son-in-law.
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So you have someone who's also an autocrat, and there's a scene in the film with the ballet company and Filin, where Urin gives Filin a real dressing down, and you get a sense of how keenly he wants to stand his own authority.
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Mr. Guaidó, who leads the opposition-controlled National Assembly, declared himself interim president more than three months ago, asserting that Mr. Maduro was a corrupt, illegitimate and incompetent autocrat who had stifled dissent and remained in power through an election widely believed to be fraudulent.
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The menacing signals from both sides were further evidence that Mr. Trump, less than a year into his initiative to deal one on one with a North Korean autocrat, has run headlong into the roadblocks that doomed the efforts of his four immediate predecessors.
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Some people brought their children to experience the moment and savor the euphoria of a remarkable achievement: Last week the protesters succeeded where numerous armed revolts failed and ousted the despised autocrat, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, after 30 years of his grinding rule.
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By the time he was toppled in 2017 to wild celebrations across the country of 13 million, he was viewed by many at home and abroad as a power-obsessed autocrat who unleashed death squads, rigged elections and ruined the economy to keep control.
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One possible answer is that his actions may seem perfectly logical to an autocrat who sees lean times ahead — the end of economic subsidies from Venezuela, which is now in a political and economic crisis — and wants to ensure his family's continuation in power.
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Local residents said protests that erupted in the southern town of Ben Guerdane had spread over the weekend to several other areas such as Sidi Bouzid, Meknassi and Gafsa, where Essebsi visited to mark the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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The Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) was set up in 2014, three years after the toppling of autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the Arab Spring revolt, to investigate abuses dating back to 1955, a year before Tunisia won its independence from France.
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" Paul Begala called the letter "Trump's governing philosophy distilled" and wrote, "He is a wannabe autocrat, who has made his goal clear: to remake America as he has remade the Republican Party -- turning a once-proud, strong party into a gaggle of sycophantic lickspittles.
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Deliberately lying about something as critical to our democratic institutions as the integrity of our election system specifically to erode the public's trust in them is dangerous, irresponsible, and echoes the sordid history of many an autocrat laying the groundwork for their eventual dismantling.
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The events put Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, at the center of a Cold War-style showdown between Russia, an ally that has shored up his government with billions of dollars, and the United States, which has denounced him as a corrupt autocrat with no legitimacy.
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That contrast troubles Russia experts and former U.S. officials who say that a president who famously ignored staff instructions not to congratulate Putin on winning a tainted election campaign is liable to make promises and concessions to a Russian autocrat he seems eager to please.
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President Donald Trump's administration is still preparing for a summit with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, who CNN reported seems to have been replacing key officials with "younger Kim loyalists" who could help the autocrat retain control of potential outside investment if a deal is reached.
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The indictment paved the way for what was easily one of the most bizarre moments in the modern history of the U.S. presidency: Trump allowing his affinity for the former KGB officer and homophobic Russian autocrat, Vladimir Putin, to openly undermine the authority of his intelligence chiefs.
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Hailed by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as a step toward national reconciliation, the exhumation was the most significant move in years by Spanish authorities to lay the ghost of the general whose legacy still divides the country he ruled as an autocrat for nearly four decades.
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The issue was brought into the spotlight in 2011, when Tunisia's ousted autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, currently exiled in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in the first of several trials for a range of crimes, including possession of archaeological artefacts.
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No full explanation has ever been offered for his affectionate relationship with the Russian autocrat, but it falls in line with his positive regard for similarly brutal leaders such as Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Rodrigo Duterte, both of whom reign with murderous terror.
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Among his guests are: a recent coup leader; Asia's longest-serving autocrat; a prime minister who thinks there is nothing untoward in having several hundred million dollars paid into his bank accounts; two superannuated communist leaders; and a hereditary sultan with 420,000 loyal subjects and 257 bathrooms.
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From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Saipov studied at the Tashkent Financial Institute, one of the biggest universities in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that at the time was run by Islam Karimov, an autocrat called one of the most oppressive leaders in the world.
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In his first months as leader, Mr. Xi vowed fidelity to China's 1982 Constitution, which brought in the two-term limit on the president, and paid homage to Deng, the patriarch who had vowed to end lifelong rule so an autocrat like Mao could not re-emerge.
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Washington lifted a 20-year trade embargo against Sudan in 2017 and was in the process of discussions on removing it from the U.S. list when the military stepped in on April 11 to depose veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for 30 years.
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Or, an old billionaire who spends tens of millions of dollars running weak TV ads trying to convince voters in a small number of large states that he is more than the autocrat who could be said to have bought the mayorship of New York City?
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She presides over Comme des Garçons, which has grown to encompass several lines and several other designers, as a benevolent but unchallengeable autocrat, and she can be military in her decisiveness, as Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator in charge, learned while working on the exhibition.
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Mr. Trump first took interest in a Rio hotel venture in 2260, when Ivanka Trump was having lunch in Florida with Paulo Figueiredo Filho, a businessman who is a grandson of João Figueiredo, the last autocrat of Brazil's 22011-year military dictatorship, which ended in 220.
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"Trump had not a word against Russian aggression in Ukraine, but plenty against past U.S. support for democracy in Egypt," Bildt said on Twitter, referring to lines from Trump's speech that criticized the Barack Obama administration for withdrawing support for autocrat Hosni Mubarak during a 2011 uprising.
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So I think the mistake is almost inevitable from today in the sense that the mistake was having this forum in the first place where the United States president has to be in the presence of this autocrat, this despot and treat him as if he were a statesman.
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Erdogan, who critics have labeled an autocrat as he spent much of the last few years eliminating checks on his power and purging or arresting thousands of real and imagined opponents, is up for re-election in three weeks and is backed by the biggest taxi industry groups.
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DAKAR, Senegal — Three people with AIDS who were repeatedly forced to undergo a homemade herbal "cure" in a bogus clinic run by Gambia's former dictator Yahya Jammeh have launched a case against him, in a rare example of victims bringing an African autocrat to book at a national court.
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Since the 2011 overthrow of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has achieved free elections, a new constitution and a spirit of compromise between secular and Islamist parties - in contrast to the repression, chaos or war that has afflicted other countries which also had "Arab Spring" revolts.
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Editorial President Vladimir Putin's deserved reputation as an autocrat willing to flirt with lawlessness in his global ventures has taken on a startling new aspect, with a finding by British authorities that he "probably approved" the poisoning of a former Russian spy and defector in London in 2006.
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There is some irony here—both Barack Obama and George W. Bush pledged to have friendlier relations with Russia and were both pilloried for it—but in Trump's case, the point is to implant the idea that he is an aspiring autocrat, not your father or grandfather's Republican.
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Other candidates who have announced their intention to stand include liberal former Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, and Moncef Marzouki, who served as interim president for three years after autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled, until Essebsi was chosen in the first democratic presidential election in 2014.
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The day after the Silicon Valley Season 6 premiere in San Francisco, the Hendricks-esque Facebook founder delivered an online address in which he basically shrugged off lies in campaign ads, while the viewer comments chosen by the algorithm were so fawning they would have embarrassed an autocrat.
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Nevertheless, the clear intention of the West, but particularly the United States, which must take the lead, to stand up to Putin at his most vulnerable points will cause him if nothing else to pause for reflection -- not a bad position to place an autocrat of any stripe.
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Striking a defiant tone, he said Congo was not prepared to take lessons in democracy "from those who assassinated democracy in this country and elsewhere", a jab at Belgium and other Western countries that backed the overthrow of independence leader Patrice Lumumba by autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko in 1961.
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"The American people can be forgiven for a healthy skepticism about just how hard Mr. Trump could have pressed the Russian autocrat, given that the President publicly cast doubt on Russian responsibility and the probity of our intelligence agencies only the day before," Schiff said in a statement.
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For the three agencies that produced the report — the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency — this is a heart-stopping moment: They have just told their new boss that he was elected with the vigorous, multifaceted help of an adversary, the thuggish autocrat who rules Russia.
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He has modeled contempt for civilized norms and even the rule of law, endorsing violence against protesters, expressing admiration for a Russian autocrat, pledging a clampdown on the press, suggesting that Second Amendment enthusiasts might want to take a shot at Clinton, and promising to throw her in jail.
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For the sake of worldwide efforts to restore peace in turbulent times, as well as to safeguard the future of democracy in the Middle East, the United States must not accommodate an autocrat who is turning a failed putsch into a slow-motion coup of his own against constitutional government.
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The excerpt is filled with remarkable new reporting, including this story that Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin tried to bond with President Donald Trump by telling the American leader that his own government was working against him: A trained intelligence operative, Putin understood the power of playing to someone's insecurities and ego.
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In the D.C. lobbying industry, this kind of money is more in line with what a foreign autocrat or a scandal-plagued organization might be expected to pay someone to take them on as a client, not what a Fortune 500 company like Novartis or AT&T would be charged.
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It could convince those governments and corporations that had overlooked the prince's destructive military campaign in Yemen, his kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minister and his waves of arrests of clerics, businessmen and fellow princes that he is a ruthless autocrat who will stop at nothing to get his enemies.
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Hungary joined the European Union in 2004, but Mr. Orban's rise as an autocrat and a threat to liberal democracy as established in the bloc has been accompanied by increasingly strident views toward migrants ever since hundreds of thousands passed through the country on their way to Northern Europe in 2015.
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It was obvious from early on that the president of the United States is a would-be autocrat who accepts no limits on his power and considers criticism a form of treason, and he is backed by a party that has denied the legitimacy of its opposition for many years.
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Certainly, there are many more dark scenarios, like the one my colleague Yascha Mounk laid out here, in which Trump abuses the powers of the executive branch and becomes a strongman autocrat who dares Congress to stop him as he dismantles democratic norms, and Congress rolls over out of fear.
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Mahdi, leader of the main opposition Umma Party, said the march and sit-in - timed to coincide with the April 6 anniversary of a 1985 military coup that forced long-time autocrat Jaafar Nimeiri to step down after protests - were "unprecedented" and had received a "kind of hospitality from the armed forces".
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Even as the exposure of North&aposs operation highlighted US arms transfers to Iran, the Reagan administration and the following one of President George H.W. Bush would directly and indirectly supply nearly half a billion dollars worth of arms and arms-making technology to Iran&aposs sworn enemy, Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein.
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It was also the first sign that President Trump's abrupt announcement last week that he was withdrawing American troops from Syria was not only shifting alliances in the conflict but directly benefiting Mr. Assad — a brutal autocrat once described by Mr. Trump as an "animal" responsible for chemical attacks and other atrocities.
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He is at least the fourth prominent ally of Mr. Guaidó to be detained or forced to flee the country since January, when Mr. Guaidó proclaimed himself the country's rightful leader, asserting that Mr. Maduro was an illegitimate autocrat who had remained in power through an election widely believed to be fraudulent.
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He also appointed Ennahda member Taoufik Rajhi, one of his economic advisors, to the new post of economic reforms minister, Six years since the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has been held up as a model by avoiding the violence that affected other nations after their "Arab Spring" revolts.
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"No one should be confused about America's commitment to Europe, not an autocrat in the Kremlin, not a presidential candidate on a Scottish golf course," Clinton said, referencing comments Trump made in Scotland after the U.K.'s vote to leave the EU. "I love to see people to take their country back," Trump said, in part.
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Ahead of a planned summit Tuesday in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean autocrat Kim Jong Un, there has been talk of complete denuclearization, North Korea has shut down (for now) its nuclear test site, and senior U.S. and North Korean officials have shuttled between Pyongyang and Washington for meetings with Kim and Trump.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to talk to Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, and Arizona Senator John McCain has issued a righteous statement condemning any moves to lift sanctions (which Trump is considering): President Donald Trump's call with Vladimir Putin is scheduled to take place amid widespread speculation that the White House is considering lifting sanctions against Russia.
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But M.B.S. has already gotten away with kidnapping Lebanon's prime minister and starving eight million Yemenis; if he also gets away with murdering Jamal, who was an American resident and Washington Post columnist, as many believe happened, then that's a green light to him and any other autocrat who wants to make a troublesome journalist disappear.
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Praveen Swami, a reporter for The Indian Express newspaper, warned on Twitter that Monday's raids were "a defining moment," adding: "The last time this sort of thing happened was during the Emergency," a reference to the strict censorship of 1975-77 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency and ruled as an autocrat.
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Washington's ostensible partner in the fight against extremists there was once President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a wily autocrat who, when faced with an uprising during the 20143 Arab Spring, sent U.S.-trained and -equipped security forces to crack down on protesters and engage in open warfare with his political rivals on the streets of the capital Sana'a.
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What is happening in America when, for the sake of tribalism, people who should know better hurl these offensive, inflammatory verbal assaults -- all to stand in the good graces of President Trump, whose self-destructive and reckless conduct in Ukraine and Syria is simply indefensible, counter to American national security interests and in complete alignment with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin's policy goals?
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When Chinese President Xi Jinping looks south to the Korean Peninsula, he can't like what he sees: North Korea is run by an inexperienced, purge-prone autocrat who likes to test-fire missiles in the direction of Japan, and who most likely ordered the murder of Kim Jong-nam, his exiled half-brother who lived in Macau under Chinese protection.
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But that, like socialism itself, is an impure ideal, as it's impossible to get through a shared supper without someone (or everyone) feeling like an autocrat: There is the bully who orders for the entire table, the allergy sufferer who regrets forcing her sensitivities upon friends, the hungry person who snags the last lobster ravioli and is then filled with shame.
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Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE on Saturday clarified his remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin being a stronger leader than President Obama, saying it wasn't an "endorsement" of the Russian autocrat, according to Politico.
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The unlikely thaw has been the cornerstone of Venezuela's recent transformation from a country where the government closely controlled the economy — and derived its legitimacy from the benefits it was able to offer its people — to a place ruled by an autocrat willing to allow de facto capitalism in order to stave off collapse and assure his continued grip on power.
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Mr. Free's Curtiz is comically harried and frustrated, not the severe autocrat Curtiz actually was; Erin Treadway's Mayo Methot, Humphrey Bogart's alcoholic wife at the time, is more a nuisance than deeply troubled; Zac Hoogendyk — alternating in one scene as Ingrid Bergman's first husband, the future surgeon Petter Lindstrom, and her second, the director Roberto Rossellini — toggles between blandness and caricature.
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PRYSTAIKO : You mean when the leader of the free world demands incriminating evidence about the son of his main political rival while dangling an urgently needed three-hundred-and-ninety-one-million-dollar aid package—all as the eastern third of our country is being occupied by the same ruthless autocrat who almost certainly helped said leader get elected in the first place?
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"Sometimes, I wonder that our Constitution is not only broken, but we need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law because we've had eight years of a president, he's an autocrat, he just does it on his own, he ignores Congress and every single day, we're slipping into anarchy," LePage said on Maine radio station WVOM.
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"Sometimes, I wonder that our Constitution is not only broken, but we need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law because we've had eight years of a president, he's an autocrat, he just does it on his own, he ignores Congress and every single day, we're slipping into anarchy," LePage said on Maine radio station WVOM.
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" A fan of Russian autocrat Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinAs Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Yang jokes first thing he'd say to Putin as president is 'Sorry I beat your guy' Biden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' MORE, Orban is consolidating power at home while exhorting Europeans to follow him in adopting a new model of "illiberal democracy.
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Op-Ed Contributor The recent decision by China's National People's Congress to abolish term limits for the office of the president has sent shock waves through the West: Xi Jinping, the current officeholder, is suddenly being described as a new Confucian autocrat, overseeing a state still governed by a Marxist-Leninist party, presiding over a selectively capitalist economy, with ambitions to make his country a global superpower.
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Already in the past decade, Ukraine has been led by a colorful cohort of presidents: Viktor A. Yushchenko, whose face was disfigured in a suspected Russian poisoning with dioxin, rendering him an almost medieval figure of suffering; Viktor F. Yanukovych, a venal autocrat who kept a private zoo; and the current leader, Petro O. Poroshenko, a chocolate factory owner known as the Willy Wonka of Ukraine.
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Cooper is a New Zealander who became fascinated as a boy by the Shah's stunning collapse and later devoted years to interviewing the Shah's surviving family and staff, including the Empress, who quietly lives outside Washington, D.C. A critical New York Times review accusing Cooper of "reflexive hostility toward Islamism" prompted a global social media campaign against Cooper and his sympathetic account of the Shah as a benevolent autocrat.
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The bottom line: While we don't know the validity of the Venezuelan government's charges against those six individuals — and may never know, given the politicization of the security forces and the judicial system, first under President Hugo Chávez and now under his protégé Maduro — the genuine risk is that Maduro will use a potentially legitimate attempt on his life to take a page from the playbook of a fellow elected autocrat.
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Voltaire has been the subject of (by my count) five popular and mostly positive biographies in the past decade alone, and now the brightest Enlightener of them all, Denis Diderot, is being newly enshrined in two fine books written by American scholars for a general audience: Andrew S. Curran's " Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely " (Other Press) and Robert Zaretsky's " Catherine & Diderot " (Harvard), an account of Diderot's legendary collusion with a Russian autocrat.
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Is it any accident that in the middle of an escalating feud with congressional Democrats, as the more damning aspects of Robert Mueller's report sank in and his namesake was served a subpoena by a Republican-led Senate committee, he played host to and praised a loathsome autocrat, Viktor Orban of Hungary; again flaunted his friendship with Vladimir Putin; toughened his talk about Iran; and ratcheted up his trade war with China?
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A former spokesman for President Obama's National Security Council on Friday accused President Trump of behaving like an "autocrat," after the president launched a series of tweets calling for the Justice Department to investigate former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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Steve KingSteven (Steve) Arnold KingThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Steve King says 'left-wing media' and GOP leadership owe him apology after rape, incest comments 11 Essential reads you missed this week MORE (R-Iowa) went very low this month when he tweeted "diversity is not our strength," and quoted a Hungarian autocrat popular with European white nationalists, saying that mixing cultures leads to a "lower" quality of life.
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They were reeling from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's repeated attacks against the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), his expressions of admiration for Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, and his endorsement of an isolationist "America First" foreign policy.
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" If this is not Turkmenistan, nor yet the land of Newspeak, but our America after all, where the curiously coiffed Great Leader of childish petulance accuses all media dissenters of distributing "FAKE NEWS," and attacks the judiciary, and adores an autocrat, and labors night and day for his wealthiest cronies in the name of some phony "middle-class miracle," then you must "hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!
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Human and animal remains were found in the cemeteries, which were discovered in the Gabal al-Silsila or Chain of Mountains area 65 km (40.3 miles) north of Aswan and would have been used during the reigns of pharaohs Thutmose III and Amenhotep II. It is hoped the burial sites will help historians better understand ancient Egyptian healthcare and give a boost to Egypt's struggling tourism industry, which has been beset by political upheaval and militant attacks since the unseating of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
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If he falls short, it is in those works, fueled by the urgency of his image-making, that evince signs of haste: the unconvincing brush marks depicting the pike that pierces the neck of the decapitated "Vietnamese Head" (1970), or the undercooked portrait of General Geisel, in which the Brazilian dictator's suit jacket is dashed off with a few sketchy lines that fail to excite the figure/ground relationship — especially when compared with its solidly painted companion piece, in which a smirking Geisel thrusts his chin forward in a gesture we recognize all too well from our own crypto-autocrat.
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