If life were a morality tale, the Covid-19 antics would turn Brazilians against the populist president

Success for former PM’s supporters deals blow to military establishment and heralds more instability

The PTI leader is still the central figure in this week’s election, even though he is in jail and barred from running

Rival parties begin coalition talks after poll marred by delays, mobile blackouts and vote-tampering allegations

The shocking election result is a repudiation of military control

Carles Puigdemont finds there is much to be said for staying in Brussels

Action against Transparency International follows moves to unwind legacy of sprawling ‘Car Wash’ bribery investigation

The 61-year-old former governor emerges as first credible third-party candidate since return to democracy in 1999

X owner calls for impeachment of Supreme Court judge over order banning certain profiles on platform

Independents from former PM’s party will be largest group in parliament but will struggle to form government

Appointment of ‘friend and comrade’ angers rightwing opposition and legal experts

In Sunday’s constitutional referendum, voters spurned a flawed vision of utopia

Latin American and African nations have been sharply critical of Jewish state

The multi-platinum Korean boy band have become art patrons with a globe-spanning project estimated at £10m

Ginés González García personally helped get jabs for government allies

Libertarian leader accuses international organisations of embracing ‘collectivism’

High debt, low growth and raging inflation will challenge a new government lacking a public mandate

Enforcement Directorate detains Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal as part of money laundering probe

Allowing political parties to buy boats and planes out of public funds is just one of Brasília’s moves away from accountability

Owner Axel Springer says it ‘stands by’ publication amid dispute with academic and her husband Bill Ackman

163 signatories to letter say party ‘deserves to form the next government’

Success of start-ups such as food delivery group Getir has been many years in the making

Leftist administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants greater flexibility on budget surplus goals

The coalition deal should be condemned by international defenders of democratic principles

Conservative party sets high threshold for race to become new premier as Sunak emerges as the early frontrunner

Opposition groups say reforms threaten country’s hard-won democratic checks and balances

Deal is ecommerce group’s biggest investment in autonomous vehicle sector

Three aides to former leader arrested as police set out details of alleged plan to prevent Lula taking office after 2022 polls

UK warns any escalation is in no one’s interest and would deepen insecurity in region

Despite laws banning foreign funding of politics in Pakistan, documents show a money trail from Oxfordshire via the UAE to the coffers of Khan’s party

With fierce protests testing the territory’s legal system, its attraction as a financial hub is at stake

Puigdemont says new republic must be defended ‘with a sense of civic responsibility’

The philanthropist has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy, an idea under siege from populists

Arrest comes amid wider election finance scandal hurting Gustavo Petro’s leftist government

The president’s attacks on national institutions threaten democracy and stability

The Republicans refusal to supply arms is sabotaging Kyiv’s war effort

Tesla boss shows Argentine president Texas factory where they talked about lithium, Brazil and a disdain for bureaucracy

The potential impact on heart and brain disease poses challenges to healthcare systems globally

The Yale professor on why the west got Putin wrong — and what the past tells us about the war in Ukraine

From Charles Drace-Francis, St Monans, Fife, UK — Friday’s most read letter

Former prime minister taken into custody from his Lahore home after ruling on corruption charges

With kidnapping and insecurity rife, the government needs to restore trust

Following claims of share price manipulation, new documents uncover potentially controversial shareholders in one of India’s biggest conglomerates

Allowing an independence referendum need not mean making separation easy

Secessionists exploit opportunity while Rajoy works to secure political support

The trapped US funds are the difference between life and death for many of us

Gang that seized bulk carrier in December forced to surrender after operation in Indian Ocean

Beijing said to be drawing up plans to replace the territory’s embattled leader

Pakistan’s PM asks whether world will ‘appease as they did Hitler at Munich’

Gustavo Petro’s allies suffer ‘punishment vote’ as opposition sweeps mayoral races in major cities