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Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. 
Climate Change
At COP27, Lula promises to resume Brazil’s ‘leading role’ as a climate defender
women voters
Sacred Nation
How Brazil’s first lady is playing a role in the fight for the evangelical vote in the presidential election 
people rally for Lula
Education
Brazil election puts fate of public education in the spotlight 
A demonstrator dressed in the colors of the Brazilian flag performs in front of a street vendor's towels for sale featuring Brazilian presidential candidates, current President Jair Bolsonaro, center, and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Bra
Lula battles Bolsonaro for chance to defend the poor again in Brazil
woman in blue dress
‘We are ready to face any violence’: Protesters in Sri Lanka brace for a crackdown
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, center, gestures as he greets his supporters during a motorcade promoting his presidential bid in the 2022 national elections in Manila, Philippines, Feb. 8, 2022.
Elections
Campaign season in the Philippines ramps up 
Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro carry Brazil's national flag along Copacabana Beach on Independence Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. 
Brazil under Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro pulls out all the stops to rally base on Brazil’s Independence Day
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrive to meet at the Villa la Grange, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. 
Global Politics
Biden and Putin both place a ‘high priority’ on cybersecurity, says presidential adviser after Geneva summit
Colombia's players celebrate winning 1-0 against Ecuador during a Copa America soccer match at Arena Pantanal stadium in Cuiaba, Brazil, June 13, 2021.
Sports
Copa America soccer championship in Brazil draws protest while coronavirus cases rise
A photo of a bin of used syringes inside a trailer.
COVID-19
Pandemic report: ‘We are not short on recommendations. We are short on action.’
Merkel stands at a podium flanked by two German flags.
Top of The World
Merkel reverses plan for strict Easter lockdown in Germany
Every 30 Seconds
Latino teen hopes the Republican Party can reform itself
Demonstrators wearing masks with text written in Portuguese that read "Bolsonaro out," and a sign with the phrase "Oxygen, Breathe Brazil," protest against the government's response in combating COVID-19 and demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President
Brazil under Bolsonaro
Calls for Bolsonaro’s impeachment intensify  
The US National Mall is shown covered in flags with the Washington Monument in the distance and the Marine One helicopter flying past.
Top of The World
Inauguration Day for Biden-Harris; Biden to sign 15 executive orders upending Trump-era policies; Trump’s flurry of pardons
A protester walks past the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.
Global Politics
‘The death of American exceptionalism’: Views from abroad on US Capitol attack 
Three women related to each other stand together outside for a portrait wearing casual clothes and makeup.
Every 30 Seconds
Two sides of a Mexican American family show how identity and politics diverge
Erika Peterson, pictured in her first winter in Canada, left the US for Ottawa in 2018.
2020 US presidential election
Some Americans fled to Canada when Trump won. Will a Biden presidency bring them home?
A man in a suit stands at a podium near red and white Turkish flag.
Conflict
French teacher’s murder widens France-Turkey rift over secularism
A woman leader holds up a COVID-19 chart card.
Leaders
It’s official: Women are better leaders in a pandemic
Wearing a beige and black sweater, Belarusian opposition figure Veronika Tsepkalo stands on a roof deck in Moscow while in exile from her country.
Conflict & Justice
Opposition figure calls for ‘new, democratic, open country called Belarus’
Izcan Ordaz, an 18-year-old high school senior in Fort Worth, Texas, poses for a photo while walking down steps wearing a navy blue Ralph Lauren polo.
Every 30 Seconds
This Latino teen voter worries about prom, graduation — and the economy
Flags of many countries carried by protesters fill the frame.
Global Politics
Power outage: How did global leadership change in 2019?
Man stands at protest with red sign and white letters in Korean
Global Politics
South Korean minister of justice resigns amid national reckoning with corruption
Portrait of former Senator Jeff Flake.
Politics
Jeff Flake: Republicans stand by amid Trump’s ‘abuse of power’
Soldiers guarding a tomb outside in Poland.
Global Politics
Poland invites nationalism in its commemoration of WWII by moving location and inviting Trump
newspapers in peru
Arts, Culture & Media
Competition for readers among Peru’s tabloids leads to more fake news
A man with a microphone in front of bright lights gives a peace sign.
Global Politics
This Ukrainian presidential candidate is challenging language divisions with a message of unity
Vladimir Putin sits at a desk with the Russian flag behind him.
Global Politics
Putin’s plagiarism, fake Ukrainian degrees and other tales of world leaders accused of academic fraud
A poster with Theresa May is on a building upside down that reads "This way up"
The ‘glass cliff’ puts women in power during crisis — often without support
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Self-Satire
Three people pose
Election 2016
These elected officials are among the few who were born outside the US