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The Year Voters Lost Faith In Incumbents — And Democracy

​A Kashmiri man shows his voter slip as he lines up to cast his ballot at a polling station, during the first phase of assembly elections, in Pulwama, India, Sept. 18, 2024.
Voting in Kashmir, India, on Sept. 18, 2024. Saqib Majeed/ZUMA

Looking back, 2024 was a year of momentous elections around the world. The results, from country to country, show overall that the global health of democracy remains precarious when some of those who win elections do not seem to believe in the political system which brought them to power.

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Migrant Lives Society

Palestinians Starving To Death In Syrian Refugee Camp

Thousands of Yarmouk refugees waiting for food distribution, in January 2014
Thousands of Yarmouk refugees waiting for food distribution, in January 2014 UNRWA/ZUMA

Syria Deeply had a rare opportunity to hear from Palestinians facing violence and starvation in the Yarmouk refugee camp in southwestern Syria.

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