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Runoff looms in Chile as far-right Kast leads presidential vote (Al Jazeera)

A far-right former congressman is leading Chile’s presidential election and looks likely to face a runoff with a former student activist. With nearly 97 percent...

El Salvador to build first ‘Bitcoin City’ backed by BTC bonds (Al Jazeera)

El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, funded initially by Bitcoin-backed bonds, President Nayib Bukele says, doubling down on his bet...

Two of 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti released (Al Jazeera)

Two of the 17 Christian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti last month have been released, according to the group’s United States-based church organisation. In a statement...

Amnesty urges Pakistan to end ‘abhorrent’ enforced disappearances (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, as...

Infographic: The 100 most polluted cities in the world (Hanna Duggal, Al Jazeera)

Every year, a thick smog covers India’s capital New Delhi. Last week, it got so bad for the 20 million residents that authorities shut schools. New...

Pakistan rejects India defence minister’s ‘provocative’ statement (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has reacted strongly to remarks by India’s defence minister over the weekend, terming threats to carry out military...

What role can nuclear energy play in Africa’s climate transition? (Olamide Samuel, Al Jazeera)

I was following activist messaging and protests around the COP26 proceedings rather closely, with a particular focus on whether African interests are being fairly...

Podcast: What’s the Kremlin’s Strategy on the European Energy Crunch? (Alexander Gabuev, Sergei Kapitonov, Katja Yafimava, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Podcast host Alexander Gabuev is joined by Katja Yafimava, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and Sergei Kapitonov, a...

Russian Foreign Policy: Shifting Gears (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

President Vladimir Putin often makes statements on foreign policy. Just last month, he spent several hours discussing world affairs at the annual Valdai Club...

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