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Colombian right-wing candidate Abelardo De La Espriella won the country’s presidential run-off, marking the latest sign of Latin America’s drift to the right. Colombia joins Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, and Perú, where voters have increasingly favoured conservative leaders in the face of rising crime and slowing economic growth. Some ...

The News Abu Dhabi-backed AI firm AIQ is looking to sell its products in the US, against the backdrop of the UAE’s $1.4 trillion investment commitment into the world’s largest oil producer. AIQ, a joint venture between state oil company ADNOC and Presight (itself a unit of AI firm G42), ...

One of America’s oldest magazines is investing in video after seeing notable growth in its audience in recent months. On Monday, The Atlantic’s flagship podcast, , will expand to produce twice-weekly episodes. Adam Harris will host a new video episode on Mondays that promises to focus on “the stories that ...

The News David Droga is unsentimental about how artificial intelligence is already reshaping the industry that made him advertising’s closest thing to a household name. Originality can’t be duplicated, he told Semafor in a recent conversation about the state of the advertising business, so the end result will be the ...

The Scoop The American right is arriving in force at this week’s Riviera advertising extravaganza to “force the conversation Cannes has spent decades avoiding.” On Wednesday, The Daily Wire, the conservative digital media site launched by Ben Shapiro, will make its debut during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is said to be weighing “political realities” and could resign as early as Monday, setting up Andy Burnham as Britain’s next leader. As rightist parties surge across the UK, Labour members are betting on Burnham — who easily won a parliamentary seat last week — ...

A heatwave swept across Europe on Sunday, prompting a partial alcohol ban in France, the cancellation of public World Cup watch parties in Spain, and urgent weather alerts in Germany and Italy. Temperatures were expected to top 40° Celsius across parts of France and Spain, as a powerful “heat dome” ...

Colombia’s voters on Sunday elected a Donald Trump-endorsed right-wing businessman in a presidential runoff, ending a period of left-wing rule that coincided with the country’s worst security crisis in decades. Abelardo de la Espriella proposed bombing gang-held territory and building 10 El Salvador-style megaprisons, while his opponent, the leftist ruling-party ...

Taiwan’s defense ministry on Sunday announced a five-day combat readiness exercise as China intensifies military activity around the island. The announcement came as Taiwanese authorities said 21 Chinese aircraft, including fighter jets and surveillance planes, were operating near Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province. Taipei’s drills will simulate a ...

Ukraine is hammering Russia’s oil infrastructure, triggering fuel shortages and increasing gas prices. Ukrainian drones on Saturday struck a major oil refinery in western Siberia, more than 2,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, as Kyiv touted a new generation of long-range drones driving the campaign. The recent attacks on Russia’s ...