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Kast wins Chile presidency in sharp rightward shift
SANTIAGO (Realist English). Jose Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, riding voter anxiety over rising crime and irregular migration...
Colombian politicians turn toward China as relations with Trump-led Washington deteriorate
BOGOTÁ (Realist English). China is rapidly expanding its political and economic footprint in Colombia as relations between Bogotá and Washington...
Peru declares border emergency as Venezuelan migrants flee Chile amid election-driven tensions
LIMA (Realist English). President José Jerí announced Friday that Peru will impose a state of emergency along its southern border...
Maduro vows to resist U.S. pressure as tensions escalate over maritime strikes
CARACAS (Realist English). Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pledged on Tuesday to oppose any U.S. attempt to remove him from power,...
U.S. prepares new phase of operations against Maduro government
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States is preparing to launch a new phase of operations targeting Venezuela in the coming...
Bolsonaro asks Brazil’s top court to let him serve 27-year sentence under house arrest
BRASÍLIA (Realist English). Lawyers for former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro have petitioned Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to allow...
Chile’s presidential race heads to December runoff between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast
SANTIAGO (Realist English). Chile’s presidential election will go to a December 14 runoff after left-wing former labour minister Jeannette Jara...
Chile heads to the polls amid crime fears and political polarisation
SANTIAGO (Realist English). Chile votes on Sunday in a presidential and parliamentary election widely expected to tilt to the right,...
US weighs historical parallels as calls grow for action against Maduro
WASHINGTON (Realist English). A debate in Washington over how to confront Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro is reviving comparisons with the 1989...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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