Hard Numbers: Race to replace Boris, Mexico "pays" for wall, IMF-Pakistan bailout deal, pricey African crude

July 14, 2022

Rishi Sunak launches his campaign to be the next Tory leader and British PM in London.

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5: After two rounds of voting, five candidates are still in the race to succeed outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The early frontrunners are former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Trade Secretary Penny Mordaunt, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The list will get whittled down to two before Conservative Party members have their say in early September.

1.5 billion: Now that Donald Trump is out of office, Mexico will finally (sort of) pay for America’s border wall. After meeting US President Joe Biden in person for the first time this week, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to cough up $1.5 billion for a joint initiative to improve border security.

6 billion: The IMF has reached a preliminary agreement to revive a $6 billion bailout with Pakistan signed in 2019. The Pakistanis have seen the writing on the wall in nearby Sri Lanka and are determined to avoid default.

3: Crude oil from three African countries — Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Angola — are the world's most expensive varieties of black gold so far this year. Algeria's Sahara Blend is no. 1 because it's low in sulfur, light, sweet, and easy to refine.

After a season of upheavals, Chile goes back to the polls

Supporters of Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate of the far-right Republican Party, wave Chilean flags as they attend one of Kast's last closing campaign rallies, ahead of the November 16 presidential election, in Santiago, Chile, on November 11, 2025.

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This Sunday, close to 16 million Chilean voters will head to the polls in a starkly polarized presidential election shaped by rising fears of crime and immigration.

Viewpoint: When Chinese robots replace service jobs

A robot waiter, serving drinks at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, in Paris, on May 24, 2024.

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Imagine sitting down at a restaurant, speaking your order into your menu, and immediately watching a robot arrive with your food. Imagine the food being made quickly, precisely — and without a human involved, because the entire restaurant is fully roboticized.

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Argentina’s president Javier Milei inherited inflation that was over 200%, but after 18 consecutive months of it falling, it now stands at just 31%.

Imagine sitting down at a restaurant, speaking your order into your menu, and immediately watching a robot arrive with your food. Imagine the food being made quickly, precisely — and without a human involved, because the entire restaurant is fully roboticized.