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Kenya Gives Investigators 60 Days on Fuel Case

Kenya's Senate has given investigators 60 days to report on emergency petrol imports bought at three and a half times...

August 24, 2026

Benin Senate President: Patrice Talon Takes the Top Seat in the New Upper House

Benin Senate president: former head of state Patrice Talon won 24 of 25 votes on 6 August 2026, a week...

August 7, 2026

West African Nation Benin Installs New Senate, Completing Reform

The Benin new Senate, a 25-member upper house, was installed on 30 July 2026, completing a constitutional reform that lengthens...

July 30, 2026

Chile’s Senate Advances Kast’s Tax Reform by a Single Vote

Chile Senate approved Kast's economic reform 26-23, cutting corporate tax from 27% to 23%. A 25-year stability clause faces constitutional...

June 26, 2026

Opinion: Hispanics embrace the Republican Party in the face of Democrats’ leftward drift

By Raúl Tortolero* (Opinion) Too many people in the United States are upset about the economic disaster that the country...

November 8, 2022

Brazil elections 2022: Armed forces inspect ballot box source code at Electoral Court TSE

The Armed Forces are at the headquarters of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to inspect the source code of...

August 3, 2022

Brazil: Presidents of Chamber and Senate expose isolated Supreme Court between government and legislature

The presidents of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), declared that the impeachment

April 27, 2022

Opinion: Brazil’s Centrão – Slouching towards Bedlam?

In Brazil’s legislature, however, the “centre” is far from falling apart. The “Centrão” bloc, “its hour come round at last”

November 25, 2021

Chile extends for 15 days the militarization of the Mapuche conflict zone

Chilean Congress approved on Tuesday the request President of the country, Sebastián Piñera, to extend for 15 more days the...

November 10, 2021