Just days after his defeat in Brazil’s presidential election, Flávio Bolsonaro has fled Brazil for the United States. The U.S. State Department announced it would issue visas to the far-right leader and his family to allow them to enter the United States. The move had already been anticipated by people with close ties to Bolsonaro who spoke with Brazilian media outlets on a day full of rumors and speculation. According to O Globo, Bolsonaro landed in Miami last night.

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The Spanish-language literary world is facing a new crisis — one other fields have been dealing with for years: the mass arrival of AI and how to live with it. EL PAÍS revealed on Friday that Pangram, one of the most highly regarded detectors, found that 99% of the novel Donde el agua trabaja (Where Water Works), by Peruvian writer David Silva Rojas, was AI-generated text. The manuscript won the inaugural Almadía Ventosa-Arrufat International Short Novel Prize in July 2026, a €20,000 ($22,000) award paid as an advance against royalties.

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The genocide against Palestinians is also a story of looters determined to erase a people from history and of archivists who emerged from the need to protect that legacy. “It has been a continuous battle: us archiving and them looting,” says Amer Shomali, director of the Palestine Museum (Birzeit, West Bank), referring to the plundering of national archives, private collections, and materials belonging to Palestinian intellectuals since 1948. “But the digital archive is designed in such a way that it is impossible to destroy. Even if they bomb the museum, the archive will survive,” he says by video call, sounding as if he knows copies of this repository are well safeguarded.

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In photographs, she is seen smiling or hugging her grandmother, celebrating her ninth birthday and eating an ice cream. Ariana Velázquez’s dream was to work in the countryside, but she disappeared a week ago and was found dead only a few days later, along with Miriam Cruz, 55, the woman who appears beside her in almost all the pictures.

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In October 2026 a statuesque young man, shirtless and wearing gray sweatpants and a mask, waved a pro‑Lula flag and a Palestinian flag atop a structure at Trianon‑Masp metro station on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, during a pro‑democracy march. The moment was caught on camera and the image spread like wildfire. The photograph of the young man at the rally became a symbol of the Brazilian election campaign, offering what looked like a perfect formula whose ingredients were physical beauty, a certain fetish, political conviction and an instant mystery — and internet users, skilled at spotting whoever is struck by the viral wand, were quick to identify him. He was Israel Augusto, christened “o gostoso da Paulista” (the hottie of Paulista), who has nearly 400,000 followers on Instagram.

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The night Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won his fourth term, among veteran ministers and old and new allies of the Workers’ Party, there was a man who never left the president’s side and whom almost no one outside Brazil would recognize. He stood out for his big white smile and for being the only one wearing the national team’s yellow jersey. He was André Janones, a lawmaker turned general of a digital army without which Sunday’s historic comeback cannot be understood. A former bus fare collector who had spent three weeks issuing orders via WhatsApp to nearly 11 million Brazilians to tame the algorithm and help the left’s digital communications make, in a few days, a leap they had not achieved in years. “I want to call up the new figure of this campaign, our General Janones,” Lula said from the stage on Avenida Paulista as he celebrated his unexpected victory. “A hug, general.” The crowd replied in chorus: “Janones, warrior of the Brazilian people!”

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I had to be dismissed by the Trump administration in 2025 before I truly understood how fragile the fabric of our society in the United States had become. Values we had long regarded as universal — such as ending world hunger, HIV, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases — suddenly became political bargaining chips. I never imagined the day would come when my country would abruptly and recklessly cut off supplies of medical equipment, emergency food, and rape kits destined for some of the world’s poorest people, with a death toll that is hard to calculate.

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“Look, this one was by Manhattan Transfer.” Vadym Glynarskyy, 73, throws onto the scorched ground the remains of one of the 25,000 vinyl records from his collection that he estimates were ruined in a Russian bombing of the popular Pochaina market in Kyiv. “War is a disaster,” he laments as he surveys the desolate scene of dozens of businesses gutted by fire, including his own. He points out charred metal objects that only he can identify: a speaker, a mixing console, a turntable, an amplifier… even the frame of a bicycle he says was ridden in the 1978 Tour de France and had been given to one of his sons as a gift. In his assessment, the trader adds several thousand CDs and hundreds of cassette tapes that were also lost.

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Justin Pearson is playing a game in which the cards were marked in favor of his opponent after play had already begun. Pearson is the Democratic candidate for Congress in Tennessee’s ninth district (TN-9), one of three in the U.S. South that Republicans rushed to redraw in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in April that curtailed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The decision dealt a fatal blow to one of the major gains of the civil rights era. It banned consideration of race when drawing electoral districts, but the court’s conservative majority approved doing so for political reasons.

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Marta Tello is a 23-year-old pharmacist who works in Algete, in the Madrid region of Spain. Six months ago, while completing her training with a primary care team in Seville, she encountered a clinical case that she says she will remember throughout the professional career she is just beginning: “This person was taking 18 different medications, something striking even for an 80-year-old with multiple underlying conditions. When we reviewed the case, we identified several prescribing cascades that needed to be reassessed,” she says.

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More than 300 U.S. troops are due to arrive in Colombia on Tuesday, October 27, to conduct military training exercises against drug trafficking, the U.S. Southern Command and Colombia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed Monday in two press releases. The joint exercise, called Southern Vanguard, will take place at the country’s largest military base in Tolemaida, in the municipality of Nilo, Cundinamarca, a few hours from Bogotá. It will run through November 11, 2026.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Monday that the United States told Delcy Rodríguez’s regime “weeks and weeks ago” that opposition leader María Corina Machado should be allowed to return to Venezuela.

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At first Matías Núñez began encountering online reports and citizen complaints about the proliferation of Flock cameras, the private automatic license plate reader service that has been contracted by police departments, universities, neighborhood associations and businesses across the United States. And then one day he found two of those devices in his own neighborhood in the coastal city of Hollywood, Florida: “I realized that every time I pass by, they record my location, and that they’re cropping up everywhere in my area. Once you see them, you start noticing them everywhere.”

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“The most important in the country.” “Crucial for the future of the Middle East.” “A historic crossroads.” Israel is holding elections this Tuesday — the first since the Hamas-led attacks of October 2023 — which have been described in many ways because they are decisive. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is staking his future — both political and personal — on the vote, after, against all odds, completing a four-year term leading the most right-wing coalition in the country’s history.

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s challenge to the outcome of the Brazilian election that gave President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a fourth term lasted less than 24 hours. The far-right candidate on Monday withdrew his request to have the vote annulled, which he had pledged to do the night of the election after refusing to recognize the result. Instead, he will serve as leader of the opposition, after consulting with his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest for an attempted coup following the 2022 general election.

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