Charli XCX, Travis Scott and The Killers are headlining the lineup of artists confirmed for the 15th Lollapalooza Chile Festival, to be held March 12 through 14 of next year at Parque O’Higgins in central Santiago de Chile. The promoter, Lotus, released the list on Thursday.
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For seven months babies have been dying in the same neonatal ward in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. An outbreak of two bacteria in that intensive care area has deprived at least 18 mothers of their newborns. Some of those women have never met; others recognize each other because the other’s child slept in the incubator next to theirs. Together they have formed a WhatsApp group where they call themselves “Bereaved Moms.” The first recorded case dates back to March. As of today, they say, there are still four infected babies at the Gynecology-Obstetrics Hospital of the Western National Medical Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
In a new escalation against the media, Egyptian authorities have arrested and pressed terrorism charges against six journalists who make up the editorial staff of Matsaddash, the country’s leading fact-checking platform. Since their arrest in late September, some of them have allegedly been tortured, the outlet and its legal team said. Human rights groups and press freedom advocates described the events as unprecedented and as an example of the limits on information in Egypt.
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The inauguration in Brazil includes a moment of enormous symbolism that comes courtesy of the architect Óscar Niemeyer. The elected head of state arrives at the Praça dos Três Poderes and ascends to power on foot, walking up the ramp that leads into Planalto Palace. “In 2027, I will climb the ramp with my father,” Flávio Bolsonaro repeatedly promised during the presidential campaign; he is now the favorite to win the October 25 runoff after attracting 47% of the vote last Sunday over incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 45%. Flávio knows that his supporters prefer the original Bolsonaro to the copy. He has also declared that, if he defeats President Lula on October 25, his first move will be to pardon Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup.
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Juan Miguel Matheus acknowledges United States involvement in the process that Chavismo and part of the opposition began on January 12, and which this month opens its third round of meetings. Far from being bothered by it, Washington’s involvement seems necessary to him: in his view, it has made essential compromises feasible for the institutional transformation needed to restore democracy in Venezuela. Matheus is confident that in the upcoming sessions, which will run through December, work will begin on a new electoral system and on restoring political and constitutional rights.
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International health authorities are on alert over a possible case of plague that may not even exist. The death of a laboratory worker at a plague research facility in Russia’s Irkutsk region on October 2 sparked concerns, and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday offered technical assistance to the Russian government while requesting additional information needed to assess any potential risk.
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The African Union (AU) on Wednesday launched a continental credit rating agency aimed at providing risk assessments that it says will be more credible and realistic than those produced by the major international rating agencies. The goal is to lower Africa’s borrowing costs and support the continent’s development and industrialization. To that end, the African Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA), which will be headquartered in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, will operate as a private and independent entity, with no ownership stake held by the AU or any government.
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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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The Donald Trump administration is creating a team of federal attorneys to represent unaccompanied migrant children (UACs) in their asylum cases. Few details have been released about how the unit will be staffed or operate, but independent organizations that have provided such legal services until now see a clear conflict of interest. Although the new division within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being presented as independent, the same administration responsible for the children’s custody — and that is pursuing policies aimed at increasing deportations of minors — would also be tasked with defending their cases before immigration judges.
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, states have been responsible for regulating access to the procedure, with laws and policies put before voters. Since then, each election cycle has featured ballot measures in different states seeking either to expand or restrict abortion rights. The November 3 midterm elections are no exception. Four states have placed initiatives on the ballot to regulate reproductive rights through constitutional amendments and new legislation.
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When Republican Greg Abbott was re-elected governor of Texas in 2022, his margin over opponent Beto O’Rourke was nearly 11 percentage points. Less than a month before the midterm elections, however, polls no longer show him with a comfortable lead. Survey averages put Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa just over two points behind and rapidly closing the gap, raising alarm among Democrats over the need to boost campaign funding in the final stretch.
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Seventy-five years after the 1951 defense agreement, the new security pact commits Greenland to remaining in NATO even if it one day gains independence from Denmark. The agreement, signed on September 22 by the United States, Denmark and Greenland, has no end date and requires any future Greenlandic state to remain within the Atlantic Alliance. It also allows U.S. vessels to operate underwater and, unless all three parties agree otherwise, bars military bases belonging to non-NATO countries as well as sensitive investments from countries that are neither NATO members nor partners, or members of the European Union.
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Maricarmen Abascal faced four eviction attempts, and the last one succeeded. It happened two weeks ago. The 87-year-old woman left her Retiro home in a wheelchair; she had lived there for almost her entire life. Once outside, she was helped onto a stretcher and taken to Gregorio Marañón Hospital. She died there on Wednesday.
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When news of the death of Maricarmen Abascal began to spread through the protest camp in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, many at first dismissed it as a cruel joke. But as the reports gained traction and mobile phones lit up inside and outside the tents, disbelief gave way to shock, and then anger. Meanwhile, as birds sense a storm before it breaks, police officers were already taking up positions, alert to what the death of such an emblematic figure might mean. Sirens never bring good news.
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Maricarmen Abascal, the woman whose eviction became a rallying cry against Spain’s housing crisis, died on Wednesday at Madrid’s Gregorio Marañón Hospital at the age of 87, the Tenants’ Union announced in a statement.
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Christa Pike was supposed to be executed on September 30 at a Tennessee prison for the 1995 murder of a fellow student. But after receiving two supposedly lethal doses of pentobarbital, the 50-year-old survived. A week later, she remains hospitalized in Nashville. Her attorneys say she is now conscious and able to speak, though she continues to require medical care and faces a lengthy and uncertain recovery.
And Shakira said: “Let’s not speak only of hispanidad: let’s speak of latinidad, an even broader embrace. Hispanidad is beautiful, but it falls short of everything we are. Spanish is Latino; Portuguese, Italian, and French are too. And all Latin Americans are Latinos.”
Welcome to the age of nuclear clocks. They are not yet as precise as the atomic clocks that keep time (and much more) in modern society. But because they are based on the atom’s nucleus rather than its electrons, improving their performance is only a matter of time. More importantly, these devices will be far more than timekeepers: they could help answer some of the most fundamental questions in physics and open entirely new avenues of inquiry.
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For decades, one of the best-known stories in science was told like a movie. In 1953, at the age of 23, James Watson visited Maurice Wilkins’s laboratory at King’s College London. There, Wilkins showed him a photograph of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin, and Watson had an epiphany. “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race,” Watson wrote in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, the book in which he recounted, 15 years later, how he and Francis Crick unraveled the structure of DNA.
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Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch. That’s what happened to the regional premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in June 2022 during one of her trips to Miami, where she posed beside a large bear sculpture that she said would end up on a public roundabout in the southern Florida city. Meant to represent Madrid, the large, candy-like bear has instead been parked in the hallway of a well-known Miami restaurant, where it serves as a decorative item.
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