A Bolsonaro Win Would Nearly Complete Trump’s Latin America Map
By Jack Nicas October 5, 2026 Flávio Bolsonaro, now the favorite to win Brazil’s presidency, would give President Trump a critical new ally in Latin America, particularly on security. Credit: The New York Times Over the last 18 months, right-wing candidates in Latin America have won the last seven presidential elections. Now the region’s biggest nation might be weeks away. On Sunday, Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of Brazil’s former hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro, received th
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Burundi: WFP Needs $30 Million To Feed DRC Refugees
By Rédaction Africanews and AP October 8, 2026 A Congolese woman refugee sits with others at the Nkamira transit centre for refugees in western Rwanda Saturday, May 5, 2012. - Copyright © africanews Copyright 2012 AP. All rights reserved. The World Food Programme is seeking more than $30 million to maintain food assistance for Congolese refugees in Burundi, warning that supplies could run out as early as October 2026 without additional funding. The WFP said on July 24 that it
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Bolivia detains attorney general, government ministry says
By Reuters October 1, 2026 Oct 1 (Reuters) - Bolivia's Attorney General Roger Mariaca has been arrested two days after the United States revoked his visa and accused him of accepting bribes to facilitate drug trafficking, the country's Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo said on Thursday. Mariaca was arrested along with 13 other people on Wednesday as part of an operation targeting what authorities described as a “criminal organization” embedded within the judiciary and
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Bhutan Should Release All Remaining Political Prisoners
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N. Korea slams U.N. report on its human rights
By: Kim Soo-yeon Credit: YONHAPNEWS SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday condemned a recent United Nations report on the North's human rights abuses as a document "fabricating and distorting" Pyongyang's rights situation. In a U.N. report on an update on North Korea's human rights situation, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres recommended North Korea investigate, prosecute and bring to justice those accused of having committed human rights violations. The repo
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Defense executives underscore autonomous capabilities
By: Sean Lin Credit: CNA Taipei, Oct. 7 (CNA) Defense company executives at a forum Wednesday touted the importance of Taiwan acquiring autonomous capabilities to reduce decision-making time during wartime and ensure the efficient use of resources in peacetime. Speaking at the 2026 Aerospace and Defense Strategic Forum hosted by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), Mira Resnick, a senior director at Saronic Technologies, noted that Taiwan could be vulnerabl
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