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Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican in May 2025.

Leo XIV arrives in Uruguay, the first pope in 38 years, and defends democratic coexistence in Montevideo

Santiago Peña at a meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington in January 2025.

Paraguay crisis

Paraguay's Senate removes President Santiago Peña by 44 votes, and Vice-President Pedro Alliana takes over

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, named as the defendant in all three lawsuits, in his official portrait released in 2023.

Google, Meta and TikTok sue California to block its ban on addictive feeds for users under 16

San Quentin State Prison, in Marin County, California, photographed in 2017.

Newsom commutes all 548 death sentences in California, the largest mass clemency in US history

French writer Philippe Jaenada at the Le Livre sur la Place literary festival in Nancy in 2024.

France's Goncourt prize goes to Philippe Jaenada, who admits using artificial intelligence three times in his novel

An ABB industrial robot in operation in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, northern France, in 2008.

China blocks SoftBank's purchase of ABB's robotics business in the country, stalling a $5.375 billion deal

The Palácio do Planalto, the seat of Brazil's federal government, in Brasília, in 2020. The critical minerals council was installed there.

Critical minerals

Brazil approves a list of 27 critical minerals, with rare earths, lithium and copper in the top priority tier

Aerial view of the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos at Matucana 501, Santiago, Chile, in 2024.

Chile's Museum of Memory opens the first exhibition devoted to Colonia Dignidad, running until April 2027

Paraguay's president, Santiago Peña, in an official portrait taken during his visit to Taiwan in May 2026.

Crisis in Paraguay

Paraguay's Senate sits as a court and hears Santiago Peña's defense on Friday

Parisite, one of the few rare-earth carbonate minerals, grown on galena in a specimen from the Mountain Pass mine in California.

Critical minerals

Lula's re-election puts Washington's hopes of quick access to Brazil's rare earths on hold

Victor Wembanyama playing for the San Antonio Spurs against the Portland Trail Blazers at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, in December 2024.

Wembanyama scores 52 with 24 rebounds and 8 blocks, and wins it at the line with 24.2 seconds left

The New York State Capitol in Albany, seat of the legislature that passed the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, photographed in 2019.

Immigration enforcement

Federal judge refuses to block New York's ban on sheriff deals with ICE

Inside the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 2025. The Nikkei 225 closed this Friday down 5.96%.

Kospi triggers circuit breaker and closes 6% lower as the Nikkei loses the 60,000 mark in Asia's worst session since April 2025

Gadi Eisenkot in November 2022, when he was a member of the Knesset. A former chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, he now leads the Yashar party.

Eisenkot gets 67 recommendations to Netanyahu's 46, and Herzog names on Sunday who will try to form Israel's government

The Hôtel de Matignon, the official residence of the French prime minister, on rue de Varenne in Paris, in 2017. The social conference called by Sébastien Lecornu is set to be held there on 9 November.

France sees between 575,000 and 1.57 million protesters over pay, and Lecornu calls a social conference for Monday

The Duque de Caxias refinery (Reduc), in the background, seen from a neighbourhood of the Rio de Janeiro state municipality in 2018. Coke and petroleum products were the biggest drag on Brazilian industry in September 2026.

Brazil's industrial output falls 0.8% in September, the fourth drop in five months, and 2.5% in a year

Lawmaker Fernando Villavicencio during a session of the Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador, in April 2023.

A Quito judge sends seven defendants to trial as alleged masterminds of Fernando Villavicencio's assassination

The Banco de México building in downtown Mexico City, lit up at night, in 2026.

Monetary policy

Mexico's central bank surprises with a cut, leaving its benchmark rate at 6.25% — the lowest since March 2022

First Lady Melania Trump in her official White House portrait, released in January 2025.

White House diplomacy

Melania Trump brings Russian and Ukrainian officials into the White House, days after the truce she brokered expired

Data center infrastructure in the United States, in a 2025 photograph released by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

AI and the midterms

Voters went against data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures, and the AI industry is already rewriting its offer