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Magdalena Andersson and Ulf Kristersson debating in the chamber of the Riksdag in Stockholm in November 2025.

Sweden's Kristersson resigns after final count gives the opposition 176 of 349 seats

The Manifa oil field on Saudi Arabia's east coast, photographed from the International Space Station in August 2023.

Aramco tells European refiners they will get no crude in October

The HostDime data centre in João Pessoa, in the state of Paraíba, in 2017.

Brazil suspends four taxes on data center equipment — and demands 100% renewable power in return

Presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro at a rally on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, on 7 September 2026

Brazil election 2026

Flávio Bolsonaro's plan would declare criminal factions "narcoterrorists", cut 10 ministries and end re-election

Works on show at ArtRio 2026, at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, on 16 September 2026

ArtRio brings 78 galleries to the Marina da Glória, with new works by Adriana Varejão and Gabriel Massan

Injectable pens used in obesity treatment, photographed in Brasília on 27 August 2026

Brazil's health ministry promises weight-loss drugs on the SUS, but what exists today is a 250-patient study

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa at the Government Palace in Quito in April 2025.

Ecuador's Noboa declares new state of emergency in eight provinces and the year's third curfew

The Peace Arch on the border between Blaine, Washington, and Surrey, British Columbia, in 2009.

Trump orders agencies to start pulling Canadian products out of federal purchasing

Macklemore performing at the Brixton Academy in London in April 2018.

Finneas, Lukas Graham and other openers quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over "Free Palestine" remarks

Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, in his 2022 official House portrait.

House leaves early for the midterms, pushing Massie's Hegseth impeachment vote to November

Official portrait of Suahasil Nazara as Indonesia's deputy finance minister, 2021.

Indonesia's Prabowo fires finance minister and turns to a technocrat; stocks jump over 3%

A Romanian F-16 takes off from Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania, during NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission in 2023.

NATO jet shoots down a drone in Lithuanian airspace for the first time

Hashim Thaçi, then president of Kosovo, at the Munich Security Conference in 2018.

Hague court sentences former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi to 25 years for war crimes

The façade of the Palácio do Planalto, the presidential office in Brasília, in 2020; the law was signed at a ceremony there.

Critical minerals

Lula signs Brazil's critical minerals and rare earths policy, with up to R$ 7 billion in incentives

The headquarters of the Banco Central do Brasil in Brasília, in a file photo.

Brazil's central bank cuts the Selic for a fifth straight time, to 13.75%

Friedrich Merz at the Charlemagne Prize ceremony in Aachen, May 2026

Under pressure after AfD rout, Merz cancels UN trip as CDU state premiers rally behind him

Video: "Feito Pipa" teaser on Deberton Filmes' Instagram. Cover photo: a scene from the film

Video: Allan Deberton's "Feito Pipa" picked as Brazil's Oscar 2027 entry

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the State of the Union address at the European Parliament on 16 September 2026

Von der Leyen invites Canada to become the European Union's first "associate member"

U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House, September 4, 2026

Drug trafficking

US drops Venezuela from list of countries failing on drug control, keeps Colombia

The west facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington

Supreme Court keeps Trump's mail ballot rules on hold for the midterms