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  1. 01

    PERU

    Fujimori clinches it.

    17 days after election day, Peru’s right-populist heiress Keiko Fujimori (the late Alberto’s daughter) now has an unbeatable lead over hard-leftist Roberto Sánchez. But Sánchez is now crying fraud (without proof) and rejecting the result. (Al Jazeera)

  2. 02

    EUROPEAN UNION

    Pax over the chips.

    The EU, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands have now joined Pax Silica, DC’s evolving coalition to de-risk AI supply chains away from China. Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, and Panama are apparently next in line. (FirstPost)

  3. 03

    SOUTH KOREA

    Accepting returns.

    South Korea has announced it’ll take North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine while fighting for Putin, if they choose to defect to the South. (Reuters)

  4. 04

    POLAND

    Friendly fire.

    Ukraine’s Zelensky will no longer co-host this week’s big Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, after Poland’s new nationalist president (Nawrocki) stripped the Ukrainian leader of Poland’s highest honour. The spat comes after Zelensky renamed a special ops unit in honour of a group Warsaw says committed WWII atrocities against Poles. (France24)

  5. 05

    INDIA

    Apple components exposed?

    Tata Electronics, a major supplier to Apple and Tesla, has now confirmed it suffered a data breach, weeks after a ransomware group dumped 200,000+ proprietary files on the dark web. (TechCrunch)

  6. 06

    CUBA

    Schools close as fuel crisis bites.

    The ruling regime has brought the school year to an abrupt close and suspended university entrance exams, citing energy shortages amid the US fuel embargo. Meanwhile, the US has slapped fresh sanctions on military-linked entities, including the regime’s main commercial bank and largest steelmaker. (NYT $)

  7. 07

    SOUTH SUDAN

    We have a date.

    After 15 years and five prior postponements, authorities have finally announced a December date for the country’s first-ever election since independence. (BBC)

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