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Testing site for COVID-19 in Lille, France. Reuters

What We’re Watching: Europe battles COVID second wave, Bolivians vote, Kyrgyz president quits

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Small countries are betting big on AI data centers
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Small countries are betting big on AI data centers

​Hebe de Bonafini, the head of Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo group, whose children disappeared during the dirty war of 1970s, leads one of the marches in Buenos Aires's Plaza de Mayo in December 1979.
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When mothers shook the world

​Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez attends a meeting with Colombia's Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez and Colombia's Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 13, 2026.
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Colombia’s Petro to finally meet Venezuela’s Rodríguez, Iran’s foreign minister wants more talks, The US reportedly mulls gift for Argentina

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks during a marathon address from the US Senate floor on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Booker sets record for longest Senate speech, Israel expands latest Gaza offensive, Netanyahu and Orbán defy the ICC, Oz universities cut off Confucius, Argentina’s poverty plunges

​A woman cleans thick mud, in the aftermath of floods caused by heavy rains, in Sedavi, near Valencia, Spain, November 3, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: Spaniards furious over floods, Muscovites steal pricy butter, Argentina cuts interest rates, Marriage rate drops in China, Japanese cyclists face fines, Incumbent wins in Moldova

​Workers of the Judiciary in Mexico City, Mexico, on October 15, 2024, protest outside the National Palace in the capital against judicial reform in Mexico. They reject the bill promoted by the former president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which proposes the election by popular vote of judges, magistrates, and ministers of the Supreme Court starting in 2025.
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Mexican Congress defangs the judiciary as majority of Supreme Court resigns

Eight out of Mexico’s 11 Supreme Court justices announced late Wednesday that they would resign their positions in opposition to a judicial overhaul that requires them to stand for election, while at the same time Congress passed new legislation that will prohibit legal challenges to constitutional changes.

Google logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen photographed with a Russian flag in the background for an illustration.
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Hard Numbers: Kremlin hits Google with zeroes, Chileans demand tighter borders, Americans suffer election anxiety, Flash flooding wreaks havoc in Spain, Mount Fuji is missing something

Will offensive Puerto Rico remarks hurt Trump's chances?
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Will offensive Puerto Rico remarks hurt Trump's chances?

With the US election a week away, why do Israelis prefer a Trump presidency? How might the results of the Georgia elections and subsequent protests affect political stability and EU membership prospects? To what extent will Puerto Rico and Latino voters sway the election in Kamala Harris's favor? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

​Bolivia's former President Evo Morales speaks during a press conference, in Cochabamba, Bolivia October 4, 2024.
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Did Bolivia’s ex-president stage an assassination … on himself?

The day after former Bolivian President Evo Morales claimed to have survived an attempt on his life on Sunday, Interior Minister Eduardo de Castillo accused Morales of staging an attempt on his own life.

​Protesters, including supporters of Georgia's opposition parties, hold a rally to dispute the Georgian Dream's declared victory in the weekend's parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Oct. 28, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: Georgians protest, VW closes plants, China closes kindergartens, Uruguay preps for presidential runoff

BRICS economies eclipse the G7
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Graphic Truth: BRICS economies eclipse the G7

In 2001, a Goldman Sachs economist coined an acronym for the four largest and most promising “emerging market” economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China became known as the “BRIC” countries.

​A woman and three children flee their home from gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 20, 2024.
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Haitian gangs assault government-held areas of the capital

Residents in Port-au-Prince’s government-controlled neighborhood of Solino have been sheltering from gang assaults that began late Thursday and intensified over the weekend.

​A woman sitting at her house, looks on as Cuba suffers a third major setback in restoring power to the island, with millions still without electrical service, in Havana, Cuba, October 20, 2024.
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Will Cuba’s government collapse with its grid?

Millions of Cubans remain in the dark amid a worsening power crisis.

​FILE PHOTO: Afghan women walk after the recent earthquake in the district of Zinda Jan, in Herat, Afghanistan October 10, 2023.
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Hard Numbers: Iran suspected of killing Afghan migrants, Meta busts lunch scheme, Venezuela jails more foreigners, US and NATO mark a decade of fighting ISIS

​FILE PHOTO: The X account of Elon Musk in seen blocked on a mobile screen in this illustration after Brazil's telecommunications regulator suspended access to Elon Musk's X social network in the country to comply with an order from a judge who has been locked in a months-long feud with the billionaire investor, Sao Paulo, Brazil taken August 31, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: X marks the spot in Brazil again, China stocks plummet on stimulus worries, Cameroon insists on presidential signs of life, Hungary embraces the olive