Politics

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar in Attard, Malta, in December 2024.

Israel and the Netherlands

Israel revokes the diplomatic status of Dutch representatives in Ramallah

Aleksandar Vučić at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, in July 2024.

Vučić resigns as Serbia's president and will run for prime minister on 25 October

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) speaks to reporters at the Senate in April 2026.

Brazil Elections 2026

Flávio Bolsonaro says yes to the TV Globo debate, Lula has not, and Brazil's first round may end without them facing each other

The port of Punta Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan, in 2012. The announced plan includes a study of upgrades to that port infrastructure.

Chile spares defence from budget cuts and nearly doubles military investment in the far south

Official portrait of Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European Commission, taken in November 2024.

EU unlocks €6.6 billion for Ukraine's defence, frozen by a Hungarian veto since 2023

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, opened in December 2011.

Brazil's 2026 election

Almost a million Brazilians will vote abroad on October 4, and one in four of them lives in the United States

The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk in 2011.

Supreme Court lets states check voter rolls against the rebuilt SAVE database before November

Abelardo de la Espriella, then Colombia's president-elect, at a bilateral meeting with Ecuador's presidency in Cali on 7 August 2026, shortly before his inauguration.

Colombia breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran but keeps consular ties open

The east front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., photographed in 2013.

The Senate defeats an Iran war powers resolution by a single vote, 49-50

Delcy Rodríguez, then Venezuela's foreign minister, at the 49th Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, in December 2015.

Delcy Rodríguez promises elections in Venezuela at the UN, but sets no date

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a town meeting at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona in 2015.

Artificial intelligence

Sanders and Casar file a bill to outlaw superintelligent AI and pause advanced development

The seat of Morocco's Parliament in Rabat, in 2019. The House of Representatives, elected on 23 September, has 395 seats.

Morocco's PAM leads the election with 97 of 395 seats as abstention reaches 62%

Court blocks the rule that would have capped foreign students at four years in the United States

President Donald Trump's official portrait, released by the White House in 2025. His administration's new public charge rule took effect on September 18, 2026.

Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C. sue to stop the public charge rule now in force

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers make an arrest during a vehicle stop in Manassas, Virginia, in April 2022. Archive photo; not the Austin incident.

Immigration enforcement

ICE agent shoots Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, and the government's account clashes with his lawyer's

AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, in a montage of two photographs.

Germany and Russia

Putin's envoy and Germany's AfD prepare talks on bringing Russian gas back

The west end of the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, the stretch between the Lincoln Memorial and the Arlington Memorial Bridge where the arch is planned.

Trump says his 250-foot arch will double as a military complex for snipers and drones

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in her official 2024 portrait.

Meloni announces a burqa and niqab ban in schools and wants a legal cap on foreign pupils per class

President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on September 9, 2026.

Artificial intelligence

Trump says he will build an "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a campaign rally in Ceilândia, Brasília, on 16 September 2026.

Brazil's 2026 election

Lula's manifesto proposes a public security ministry and a real rise in the minimum wage every year