This Sunday, nearly 16 million Chileans will head to the polls for the first round of a sharply polarized presidential race shaped by mounting fears over crime and immigration. The vote follows several turbulent years in typically calm Chile, the world’s top copper producer and one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations. Between October 2019 and March 2020, Chile was rocked by violent protests that resulted in more than 8,800 arrests, nearly 3,400 hospitalizations, and over 30

In recent weeks, China and the United States have intensified their struggle for control over the rare earth minerals market — a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are crucial for manufacturing many high-tech products. They are used in computer hard drives, smartphones, military defense systems, LED lights, electric car motors, and jet engines. In 2024, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that China accounts for about 61% of rare earth production and 92%

An additional argument supporting the thesis that China is not close of replacing the United States as the world's No. 1 power is the fact that the best scientists continue to go to the United States. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to malaria researcher Tu Youyou is the only Nobel Prize in science that China has ever won. Despite the stratospheric investments that the Chinese government has made in science since the 1990s, in the last ten years (2016-2025), China ha

The agreement between Hamas and Israel is now a reality, although there are still many uncertainties about its final content. The agreement was organized by Trump and approved by most of the Muslim countries allied with the Palestinian cause (Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank). The first thing that will happen is: -Hamas will hand over the approximately 20 Israeli hostages who are still alive, and the 20-30 bodies of

This is what international law says about intercepting the flotilla led by Greta Thunberg to Gaza: -It is legal to intercept a ship in international waters if it intends to break a legal military blockade. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/san-remo-manual-1994/article-93-108?utm_source=chatgpt.com The question of whether Israel's blockade of Gaza since 2007 is legal or not is more complicated: After Hamas won the 2007 election, they began to launch many rockets a

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