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Barranquilla, Colombia — A flamboyant U.S.-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s polarizing presidential runoff Sunday, swinging the country hard right and sparking violent protests. With almost all the ballots counted, Abelardo de la Espriella held 49.66% of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70%. The 47-year-old’s slender win triggered…
Outage at Amazon Web Services takes down apps, websites globally
Oct. 20 (UPI) — Scores of the websites and apps, including Facebook, Disney+ and Reddit were hit by a global outage overnight caused by an “operational issue” at U.S. cloud services provider Amazon Web Services. At the peak of the incident, early Monday, AWS reported more than 70 of its own services were impacted before…
Ukraine’s interior minister among at least 14 killed in helicopter crash outside Kyiv
Ukraine’s interior minister was among at least 14 people killed after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside Kyiv on Wednesday, authorities said. The cause of the crash, which comes as the country’s war with Russia approaches the 11-month mark, was not immediately clear. At least nine of those killed had been onboard the emergency…
EPA Authorizes Release of 2 Billion More GMO Mosquitoes as Reports of Malaria Surface in States That Already Released Them
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Weak in Battle, Dangerous in Resistance: Venezuela’s Military Preparedness and Possible Responses to U.S. Action
The dramatic surge in U.S. military power in the Caribbean since August 2025 — anchored by the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the deployment of F-35s to Puerto Rico, expanded naval patrols, the buildup of some 15,000 U.S. personnel, and the announcement of a naval blockade of Venezuelan tankers carrying sanctioned oil —…
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Up to 3K Migrants Poised to Cross into Texas Border Town
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Up to 3,000 migrants are being staged in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, and are preparing to cross the border into Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday. Breitbart Texas watched as hundreds of migrants began to form groups and crossed the Rio Grande into the United States. From the Mexican side of the Rio…


