Mopping Up

Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidential election on Aug. 20, garnering a clear mandate with nearly 60 percent of the vote. He defeated Sandra Torres, a former first lady, who was a leader in the Central American country’s conservative elite. It was a political earthquake,...

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Dangerous Liaisons

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah dismissed Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush on Monday after she met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen last week in Rome, a meeting that sparked protests in the war-torn country and caused controversy in Israel, Al Jazeera reported. The diplomatic fiasco...

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Teacher, Preacher

Mexico’s new school textbooks are causing an uproar between leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and opponents who have criticized them as politicized and rife with factual error, a dispute that comes as Mexican students returned to class on Monday, the Financial Times reported. The controversy...

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Bloody Tears

Vlad Dracula, the 15th-century Wallachian leader who became the inspiration for the famous fictional vampire, has long been shrouded in legend and myth. Known also as Vlad Tepes or “Vlad the Impaler,” the historical figure is remembered for the myriad of brutal methods he used to...

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