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People protest on the street near Congress, following former Paraguayan President Santiago Pena's removal from office in an impeachment trial that found him guilty of poor performance over his links to the collapse of digital lender Ueno, in Asuncion, Paraguay, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
How a digital bank’s collapse toppled Paraguay’s president
Until March 2025, impeached Paraguayan President Santiago Pena had been a business partner of the group that owns Ueno Bank.
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena was impeached Friday over the chaotic collapse of a bank to which he had links.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2026
Crisis-hit Paraguay impeaches president and replaces him with VP
Pedro Alliana became president of Paraguay on Friday following the impeachment of his predecessor over a massive banking crisis.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses supporters in Sao Paulo after winning Brazil's presidential runoff election on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2026
Lula killed the ‘Donroe Doctrine’
The U.S. president was hoping to huddle with client states to the south who mimic his business and iron fist posturing.
Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has reportedly fled Brazil after his loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s runoff election.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
U.S. to give visa to Brazilian election loser Bolsonaro
The defeated presidential candidate is reportedly en route to the U.S. following his loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets supporters outside a polling station after voting during the presidential runoff election in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 26, 2026
Brazil’s Lula wins record fourth term in a shock comeback
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s victory was eked out in the 11th-hour after voters from his heartland rallied to the rescue.
An employee at the Reynoso family workshop sews by machine a traditional "papel picado" banner in San Salvador Huixcolotla, Mexico, on Oct. 1.
WORLD
Oct 22, 2026
The Mexican town that makes the iconic Day of the Dead garlands
The “papel picado” banners are a central element in the lavish altars erected for the deceased and are also used to festoon homes and streets.
Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reports presidential election results at a newsstand in Sao Paulo on Monday, following a surprise first-place finish by right-wing Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2026
Brazil’s political center of gravity has shifted
The Brazilian electorate is older, more devout, and more preoccupied with crime and personal security than it once was.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) last month and candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro in August.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2026
Bolsonaro pushes Lula to brink of defeat ahead of Brazil runoff
With conservative allies dominating across Brazil in Sunday’s voting, Bolsonaro capped the day by taking about 47% of the vote.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (center) during a campaign rally in Sao Paulo on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Sep 29, 2026
Lula scraps for every vote in a part of Brazil he’s dominated for decades
Even a marginal erosion of support in the Brazilian president’s biggest political stronghold could cost him reelection.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during a rally in Panama City on May 23.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
Machado fails to slip back into Venezuela while Rodríguez is away
The Venezuelan opposition leader made three attempts in 24 hours to return home but was unable to complete the journey.
A car drives down the BR-156 highway between Amapa state capital Macapa and the town of Oiapoque also in the state, near the border with French Guiana in Brazil on Sept. 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Sep 21, 2026
Oil exploration in Brazilian Amazon offers wealth but puts communities at risk
While oil could fund a shift to clean energy and help address poverty, the search to find it disturbs the environment and could cause lasting damage.
Kioshi Footwear owner Emmanuel Fernandez at his factory, which is operating at minimum capacity, in Esteban Echeverria, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on Aug. 27
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 16, 2026
Argentine industry reels from Milei’s free-market revolution
The Argentine Industrial Union has demanded action as some 90,000 industrial jobs have been lost and nearly 30,000 firms have closed in three years.
Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes attends a hearing on the investigation into alleged links between himself and banker Daniel Vorcaro at the court in Brasilia on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
Brazil’s top court postpones ruling on probe of justice in politically charged case
Calls for a probe of Justice Alexandre de Moraes are an outgrowth of a case involving failed lender Banco Master that has rattled Brazil for months.
Brazilians attend a campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2026
Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro ties Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in polls ahead of vote
A court crisis has handed the senator a potent rallying cry: the fate of the justice who oversaw the imprisonment of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
The Perito Moreno glacier, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonia region of Argentina, last year
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 8, 2026
Tech companies look to Argentina’s windswept Patagonia to build massive data centers
Investors are enticed by Patagonia’s cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and empty stretches of land.
A steel sculpture of communist revolutionary Che Guevara on the side of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior in Havana.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2026
Will Latin America embrace guerrilla geopolitics?
Latin America, in particular, should consider how to leverage its many strengths to remedy its relatively weak position on the global stage.
A group of detained fishers are transported on a National Police bus from the port of Manta, Ecuador, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 7, 2026
Fishers detained, boats destroyed but no charges under U.S. ops in Equador
Joint U.S.-Ecuador counternarcotics operations in the Pacific have seen the destruction of four Ecuadoran vessels since Aug. 28.
Chevron Venezuela President Mariano Vela (left) and Venezuela's oil minister, Paula Henao, shake hands after signing a cooperation agreement at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2026
Chevron CEO says patience pays off in Venezuela oil deal
For two decades, Chevron stayed while all its major peers quit after former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez nationalized foreign assets atop the world’s largest oil reserves.
Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro under escort as he heads toward a courthouse in New York on Jan. 5
WORLD
Sep 3, 2026
Venezuela’s Maduro asserts immunity and urges U.S. judge to dismiss charges
The Venezuelan leader has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges and is scheduled to go on trial on June 1, 2027, if his effort to dismiss the case is unsuccessful.
ByteDance’s data center under construction at the Pecem Industrial and Port Complex in Ceara, Brazil, in May
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 2, 2026
Reviled in the U.S., data centers win support in Brazil’s presidential election
Both Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and rival Flavio Bolsonaro are making data centers central to their pitches to bolster the economy.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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