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  • Santiago Pena, Paraguay's president, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. Pena said Paraguay is sending more beef to the US, but it hasn't been allocated an export quota like the Trump administration set for Argentina. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    Paraguay president impeached and under house arrest following bank collapse scandal
  • Pope Leo boards the papal plane ahead of his first apostolic journey to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, at Fiumicino Airport, near Rome, on November 6.
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    Pope Leo ‘proud to be an American’ and vote in US midterms
  • Pope Leo XIV general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, November 4, 2026. Photo by: Stefano Spaziani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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    Pope Leo’s Latin America trip will take him above 11,000 feet, weeks after lung cancer surgery
  • Grizzly Bear standing in Sedge Grass, Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, Canada.
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    Multiple grizzlies may have attacked mother and daughter found dead, Canadian authorities say
  • The Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente, appears at his own request before the Standing Committee of the Congress of Deputies, in the Constitutional Chamber of the Congress, in Madrid, on November 3.
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    Spanish transport minister resigns after two deadly train crashes in one year
  • Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro after the results of the general election on October 25, 2026 in Brasilia, Brazil.
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    Why the US has become a political base for Brazil’s Bolsonaro allies
  • A car drives down a street in Havana on August 4, 2026.
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    Hell will freeze over before Havana gives in to Trump. But regular Cubans don’t have that long
  • RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 25: Flávio Bolsonaro presidential candidate for the Partido Liberal leaves after casting his vote during general election day on October 25, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilians will vote for the president who will run the country for the next 4 years. Current president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, face off in a tight presidential runoff. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
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    Flávio Bolsonaro says he will lead Brazil’s opposition in exile, after landing in US following election defeat
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  • President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leaves a polling station after voting in the presidential runoff in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026.
    Natacha Pisarenko/AP
    Brazil’s Lula completes stunning turnaround to secure election victory, as Trump ally Bolsonaro rejects result
  • Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launches his re-election campaign at Primeiro de Maio Stadium in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, August 16, 2026. The stadium, formerly known as Vila Euclides, was the site of the mass metalworkers' assemblies led by Lula during the landmark 1979 and 1980 strikes. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
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    Lula, Brazil’s great political survivor, wins again in a deeply divided nation
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    Video Lula has defined Brazil’s left for decades. Can his movement survive another Bolsonaro? 3:40
  • Senator and right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a rally at Mackenzie Esporte Clube in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on August 17, 2026. Brazilians will go to the polls next October 4 once again deeply polarized and under the shadow of US President Donald Trump, who has backed conservative candidates in recent elections in Latin America. (Photo by Gledston Tavares / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Flávio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s right-wing movement. Can he win Brazil’s presidency?
  • Chadian soldiers of the international Gang Suppression Force (GSF) greet UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Port-au-Prince on June 16, 2026.
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    Gangs in Haiti target foreign troops in the biggest attack since a new force began operations
  • Priest Patricio Sánchez died after being struck by a falling cross on Saturday.
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    Priest killed by falling crucifix during live streamed Mass
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  • Former Chihuahua prosecutor César Jáuregui arrives at the premises of Mexico’s Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to be questioned about the deaths of two CIA agents, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on May 27. The agents died in a car crash following a security operation to dismantle a drug lab in Guachochi
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    Mexico arrests state official accused of allowing unauthorized CIA role in drug raid
  • Erik Prince speaks to CNN in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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    Exclusive: Inside Erik Prince’s secretive operation taking on Haiti’s gangs
  • The photos of foreign surfers who disappeared are displayed on a poster on the beach in Ensenada, Mexico, on May 5, 2024.
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    Three men sentenced to more than 158 years for the killings of Australian, US surfers in Mexico
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    Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 2 as it continues to lash Mexico’s Pacific coast
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    Video 7.6 earthquake strikes Panama 2:45
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    US resident arrested in connection with Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting
  • Leader of the Parti Quebecois (PQ) Paul St-Pierre Plamondon makes a speech after winning his election to become the next premier of Quebec, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 5, 2026.
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    Quebec separatists vowing independence vote win provincial election but fall short of majority
  • Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazilian presidential candidate, speaks during a news conference outside of his residence following the general election in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 4, 2026.
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    Key takeaways as Brazil heads to presidential runoff that could reshape Latin America
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