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![The Commonwealth Observer Group, chaired by the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, witnessed the general elections in Nigeria.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.13.2023%20Barnett%20New%20Lines.jpg?h=926e5cfc&itok=Eah6rq1D)
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Ballot boxes for the 2019 Nigerian general elections. (Commonwealth Secretariat via Flickr)
![Protesters holding up a banner outside the West Kowloon Magistrates Court before the trial against 47 pro-democracy activists on February 6, 2023 in Hong Kong. (Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.10.2023%20Yu%20New%20York%20Post.jpg?h=73f8af3d&itok=3aeEzk0y)
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Protesters holding up a banner outside the West Kowloon Magistrates Court before the trial against 47 pro-democracy activists on February 6, 2023, in Hong Kong. (Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Pervez Musharraf at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons)
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![An Iranian woman walks past a mural showing Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the capital Tehran on March 9, 2022. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/01.31.2023%20Hashemi%20Washington%20Examiner_0.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=HXndlsM3)
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An Iranian woman walks past a mural showing Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, on March 9, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
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![TAIPEI, TAIWAN - NOVEMBER 26: Chiang Wan-an, Taipei mayoral candidate of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), celebrates his victory in local elections on November 26, 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan holds local elections to appoint mayors, councillors and magistrates in several counties on Saturday. The local elections are a litmus test for the popularity of the ruling DPP as young candidates including the grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Wan-an, seek to turn the tide. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.21.2023%20Fu%20NY%20Sun_0.jpg?h=9855f42d&itok=LjLkAG7_)
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Chiang Wan-an, Taipei mayoral candidate of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), celebrates his victory in local elections on November 26, 2022, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Louise Delmotte/Getty Images)
![A portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, on June 27, 2006. (Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.09.2023%20Yu%20Wake%20Up%20Springfield.jpg?h=4e026002&itok=pe3EPgEC)
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A portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, on June 27, 2006. (Wikimedia Commons)
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![This photo taken on September 19, 2017 shows painted portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and late communist leader Mao Zedong at a market in Beijing. As the Chinese Communist Party gathers for its most defining congress in decades, a new catchphrase is echoing through Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People: Xi Jinping's "new era thought". / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.04.2023%20Yu%20NYP.jpg?h=8a6ff270&itok=MieFmHDl)
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Portraits of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong in Beijing, China, on September 19, 2017. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
![An Iranian man holding his smartphone looks on while standing under an anti-Social networking banner in Tehran Grand Bazaar (Market), December 3, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.21%20Albeck.jpg?h=b8bb64a6&itok=7C0AQlfs)
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A man holding his smartphone stands under an anti-Social networking banner in Tehran, Iran, on December 3, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
![An epidemic control worker guards the gate of a government quarantine facility on December 7, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.19%20Yu.jpg?h=e53d9e08&itok=EZoJRSv7)
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An epidemic control worker guards the gate of a government quarantine facility on December 7, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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