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Passing sentence in Brazil: the jailing of a ...

Imagine a country where a hard-right populist president loses an election, urges followers on social media to rise up and storm government buildings, and is eventually handed a 27-year sentence for st

Paris Hotel fall: French prosecutors have opened ...

Libertarian president Javier Milei has been facing a gathering currency crisis after his party suffered a stinging defeat in local elections earlier this month. The peso has shed about a fifth of its

Glendale, Arizona Kirk mourned: Tens of thousands ...

In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott