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

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

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

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in presidential election

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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