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US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
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What We're Watching: Tsai in California, Lukashenko in Moscow, no Easter in Nicaragua

After US speaker meets Taiwan's prez, all eyes on China; Lukashenko's delicate dance; Nicaraguan strongman cancels Easter

Beina Lesanjir, a woman who escaped gender based violence, participates in a traditional dance at the Umoja village, Kenya.
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Hard Numbers: A Kenyan “No man’s land”, Nicaragua strips critics, Eastern migrations soar, big money Bible

The defining feature of Umoja, a village in northeastern Kenya, is that it has precisely zero men.

Why the world is more optimistic about AI than the US
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Why the world is more optimistic about AI than the US

As AI adoption expands around the world, a new Gallup-Microsoft survey reveals a striking divide in how people feel about the technology.

A view shows Batman logo on a box of cocaine, said to be recovered by New Zealand Police.
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Hard Numbers: Batman found on cocaine, Disney censors Simpsons, Nicaragua jails priests, Bard flub costs Google billions

New Zealand’s navy intercepted a haul of 3.2 tons of cocaine floating in the pacific.

What We’re Watching: Russian military on the ropes, panic-buying in Beijing, Nicaragua out of OAS
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What We’re Watching: Russian military on the ropes, panic-buying in Beijing, Nicaragua out of OAS

What We're Watching: Ukrainian war morale, Nicaraguan opposition crackdown, Sinai summit
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What We're Watching: Ukrainian war morale, Nicaraguan opposition crackdown, Sinai summit

Ukraine "on the brink of surviving war,” Ortega vs Chamorros in Nicaragua, a rare trilateral Mideast summit

Nicaragua’s so-called “election”
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Nicaragua’s so-called “election”

On Sunday, Nicaragua will hold presidential and legislative elections in which President Daniel Ortega is all but guaranteed to win a fifth term. So, why does the vote even matter? We asked Eurasia Group analyst Yael Sternberg for her take.

What We’re Watching: Biden in Europe, Gulf states vs Lebanon, elections in Nicaragua, South Africa & Virginia
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What We’re Watching: Biden in Europe, Gulf states vs Lebanon, elections in Nicaragua, South Africa & Virginia

US president's Euro trip, Gulf states lash out at Lebanon, Nicaragua's fake election, ANC feels the heat as South Africa votes, a nail-biter in Virginia

A man checks his phone while walking by a banner promoting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, as presidential election campaigns begin, in Managua, Nicaragua September 25, 2021.
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What We're Watching: Nicaragua's sham election

What We’re Watching: Modi reshuffles cabinet, Iran enriches uranium metal, Ortega jails Nicaraguan opposition
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What We’re Watching: Modi reshuffles cabinet, Iran enriches uranium metal, Ortega jails Nicaraguan opposition

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to Likud party MKs at the Knesset (Israel's parliament) in Jerusalem, December 2020.
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What We're Watching: Israel's collapsing government, Nicaragua's opposition ban, new COVID strain goes global