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On June 2, Mexico decisively elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. Once she takes office on October 1, she'll…
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On February 1 in São Paulo, a few hundred yards away from the city's embattled Cracolândia, Governor Tarcisio Freitas inaugurated the…
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Sri Lanka is several weeks into a devastating crackdown on the nation’s poor communities, supposedly to target people who sell…