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Critics may dismiss Rwanda’s deal to host Formula 1’s first African Grand Prix since 1993 as a government buying a high-profile race. But Formula 1 sets the terms, and whether Rwanda and Africa benefit is still an open question, Olajumoke Ayandele writes.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defied the polls to win a record-setting fourth term on Sunday.

Having proven himself a brilliant campaigner, he will now find governing harder than ever, columnist James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz) writes.
https://t.co/wCiSzzT1xz

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Flávio Bolsonaro wants Brazil’s presidential election annulled after losing to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva yesterday, citing a court order that kept polls open two extra hours—an extension he had also requested.

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#Brazil’s election: end of right-wing “wave” or end of anti-incumbency? Or maybe it’s all about @LulaOficial! 🤔

As I argued in @wpreview, Latin American voters have barely moved ideologically & grade incumbents on delivery. Lula ran on record-low unemployment & a 15% welfare increase w/ approval underwater at 48-50, against a highly polarizing opponent, & won a narrow, conditional verdict. His 4th term opens w/ an opposition majority in Congress, public debt above 82% of GDP, & Flávio refusing to concede.
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A record $3.5 billion funding round has made Mistral one of Europe’s most valuable private tech firms.

But as René Rabeder writes, the French AI startup risks becoming a European home for other countries’ models rather than a direct competitor to OpenAI.
https://t.co/lznk14OgMw

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As columnist @ProfPaulPoast writes, the most fundamental obstacle to counting the war dead is the fog of war itself. Battlefield chaos obscures losses, and it is often unclear whether a death came from combat or from famine and disease made worse by conflict.
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With Washington restricting foreign access to some American AI models and Beijing weighing similar limits, French startup Mistral is giving European businesses more room to maneuver by running foreign models on infrastructure that stays in Europe.
https://t.co/lznk14OgMw

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Governments are not forthright about the deaths their forces incur, nor the deaths they cause, because they want to maintain the appearance that a war is going well. That is one reason an accurate count of the war dead is so hard to pin down.
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Rivalry over the cocaine trade and ethnic tensions may help explain why Guinea-Bissau’s junta turned on ousted President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, @TangiBihan writes.
https://t.co/EDsce7awm5

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More than 80 percent of Americans view Russian President Vladimir Putin unfavorably, and only 4 percent favor Russia in the war in Ukraine.

As columnist @FridaGhitis writes, that makes President Donald Trump’s turn toward Moscow a political liability at home.
https://t.co/7GW5dhnBAt

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Mistral, the French startup founded to build Europe’s answer to OpenAI, now offers its customers a Chinese AI model.

The move shows it has chosen practical control over the impossible pursuit of a purely European tech stack, René Rabeder writes.
https://t.co/lznk14OgMw

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From the Pentagon’s disputed count of U.S. deaths in the Iran war to the wars in Ukraine and Sudan and even World War II, a precise tally of the war dead often eludes us—but counting them will always matter, columnist @ProfPaulPoast writes.
https://t.co/ulBY16PEmV

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Bukeleization is just one of the many trends reshaping Latin American politics. WPR covers them as they happen.

For more, explore all of WPR’s coverage of the Americas:
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Bukeleization didn’t just arrive. It’s been happening for years, and WPR has been covering it from the start.

A thread 👇
https://t.co/BfJnWeqLp9

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October 2026: Since El Salvador’s CECOT opened in 2023, mega-prisons have become a signature promise of Latin America’s security populists, with 16 proposed across 10 countries.

James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz) argued they’re an incomplete solution, at best.
https://t.co/a1NDFgquF8