MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia SheinbaumHis name will go down in Mexican history. The candidate for the ruling party won the Mexican presidential elections Sunday marked a turning point in a predominantly conservative nation that has been ruled exclusively by men for more than two centuries. Elsewhere in Latin America, women have led countries such […]

The “Tiger Meet” air defense maneuver has begun in the airspace over northern Germany, with aircraft and personnel from 11 NATO members plus non-NATO countries Switzerland and Austria taking part. “The first planes have been in the air since 9 a.m. (0700 GMT),” a spokesperson for Jagel air base in Schleswig-Holstein state told dpa. About

By Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – The Mexican peso tumbled more than 3% against the dollar on Monday after the ruling party scored a surprisingly strong election, showing and looking poised for a supermajority that markets fear could lead to constitutional changes and could reduce checks and balances. Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory in

Insights from The Guardian, BBC Global News podcast and The Conversation The news China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday in a historic mission collect moon rock and soil samples and return them to Earth. It is the first time a space agency has attempted to return samples

Claudia Sheinbaum was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, becoming the first woman and the first Jewish person ever to hold the position. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, emerged with between 58.3 percent and 60.7 percent of the vote, the National Electoral Institute president said, citing a statistical sample that

A tussle over a new gas pipeline deal exposed the power imbalance between Xi and Putin. Putin depends on the pipeline amid international sanctions. But China has also staked a lot on Russia’s victory in Ukraine. At the Shangri-La conference in Singapore on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused China of following Russia’s orders in

The German government has congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum on her victory in Mexico’s presidential elections. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in Berlin on Monday that Germany “would be very happy to work closely with the future government and will also try to establish contact in the near future.” “We are obviously looking forward to expanding relations

Microsoft said it would train 250,000 people by 2027 to increase AI knowledge and competence and also increase capacity at its three data centers in Sweden. (JULIEN DE ROSA) Microsoft said on Monday it would invest 33.7 billion kroner ($3.2 billion) over two years in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden, the largest investment

Russia’s efforts to reach a major gas pipeline deal with China have hit a roadblock due to disagreements over price and supply, the US State Department reported. Financial timesciting sources. The agreement concerns the 2,600 km Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, which starts in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia) and ends in Inner Mongolia (China). China’s

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s parliament speaker registered Monday for the June 28 presidential election. The entry of Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf brings a prominent candidate with close ties to the country’s parliamentary Revolutionary Guard into the race to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died along with seven others in a helicopter crash on