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  • Supporters of candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrate with a cardboard of Lula after the general election day on October 25, 2026 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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    Brazil’s left reinvented the right’s online playbook. It helped Lula win
  • Mexican families visit graves at the cemetery and take part in the Day of the Dead celebration on November 2, 2025, in San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico.
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    On Day of the Dead, tourists bump shoulders with celebrating families in San Andrés Mixquic
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    Americans voting from Mexico share a concern ahead of the midterms: the future of democracy
  • Maya Gebala, pictured in this undated photo, was seriously wounded in the mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge on Feb. 10.
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    ‘Bravest person I know’: Father’s pride as school shooting victim leaves hospital after 262 days
  • Gang Suppression Force (GSF) vehicles are seen in a traffic jam in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 24, 2026. Approximately 450 Salvadoran soldiers have arrived in the Haitian capital to reinforce the GSF and take part in search operations for four missing Salvadoran nationals.
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    Bukele adds a wildcard to Haiti’s fractured security landscape
  • Images by the Press Team of Maria Corina Machado team on Sunday shows the opposition leader arriving at Santa Rosa church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate returned home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States without her involvement.
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    Venezuela’s Machado returns from exile to crowds of cheering supporters
  • 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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  • Armored police vehicles that are part of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) patrol near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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    El Salvador sends troops to Haiti to rescue four service members
  • 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?
  • Paramedics load an injured person into an ambulance at the Wainwright Health center after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside of Wainwright, Alberta Saturday, October 17, 2026.
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    4 dead and dozens injured after major fire breaks out at one of Canada’s largest military bases
  • Teodoro Rivas places a national flag on a grave during a protest against the proposed Rio Indio Reservoir, which would supply water to the Panama Canal, at the cemetery in the community of El Limon, Colon province, Panama, on July 26.
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    To keep the Panama Canal flowing, the living and the dead must pay the price
  • 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
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    Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 2 as it continues to lash Mexico’s Pacific coast
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  • 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 found guilty in the 2024 killing of Australian and US surfers in Mexico
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  • Douglas Bradburn, Director of George Washington's Mount Vernon, alongside Britain's Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, talks to Revolutionary era re-enactors during a tour of Mount Vernon, the estate of the first US President, George Washington, in Mount Vernon, Virginia, US, October 1, 2026.
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    At Washington’s tomb, a British royal honors the man who kicked out the Crown
  • Residents, parents and other citizens gathered outside the Almirante Guise Naval High School in San Borja, Lima, on Sunday, September 20, following reports of the alleged sexual assault of a student and amid questions over the institution’s handling of the case. Protesters held signs and gathered outside the school, calling for justice and greater accountability as authorities continue to investigate the allegations.
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    A teenage boy was allegedly raped by classmates on a bus, highlighting a crisis in Peru’s schools
  • Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez attends the signing of cooperation agreements in education, hydrocarbons, tourism, agriculture and political affairs with Suriname's President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace in Paramaribo, Suriname, on September 11, 2026.
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    Venezuela’s unelected leader Delcy Rodríguez seeks lost legitimacy. Will she get it?
  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the national caucus retreat on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Friday, September 18.
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    Trump’s been lobbing insults at Canada’s leader for more than a year. Now Carney is hitting back
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