Politics

Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, where the agreement was signed, in a photograph from September 2024.

Turkey and Qatar sign mutual defence agreement in Istanbul, pledging a joint stance against attack

The pact is one of five documents signed at Dolmabahçe Palace by Erdogan and Emir Tamim, and the third collective defence arrangement Ankara has joined in four months

Redação RecortNews11/14/2026

Supreme Court
Supreme Court will decide whether Trump can switch off asylum at the southern border
APEC
White House confirms Trump, Xi and Putin will meet in Shenzhen on Thursday to discuss nuclear weapons
China
Xi says reunification with Taiwan "will certainly be achieved" and offers talks under the one-China principle
Venezuela
Venezuela opens the fourth round of government-opposition talks on Friday, the first since Machado's return

Official portrait of Gibran Rakabuming Raka as vice-president of Indonesia, released in October 2024.

Indonesia's vice-president resigns over his school diploma, hours before parliament was to take up an impeachment petition

A Bureau of Land Management public land auction held in Nevada in May 2015 under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act.

Interior's new five-year plan makes shrinking the federal estate an official goal, with land sales to states, localities and Tribes

The plenary chamber of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, in a 2010 photograph.

Eisenkot has until 6 December to form a government in Israel, and his bloc sets 17 November to take over the Knesset

Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks at an FBI oversight hearing in Washington in July 2023.

House leadership

House Republicans pick Jim Jordan over Steve Scalise, 106-73, to lead them in the next Congress

The seat of Guatemala's Congress, in zone 1 of the capital, pictured in 2012.

Guatemala's Congress condemns the killing of lawmaker Julio Portillo and his three police bodyguards, and swears in his successor

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his official Department of Defense portrait, taken in January 2025.

House votes 211-204 to send the Hegseth impeachment resolution to committee, shelving it for this Congress

Viktor Orbán in December 2025, when he was still Hungary's prime minister.

Hungary detains Áron Orbán, the former prime minister's brother, in a people-smuggling case over visas for Vietnamese nationals

The Rio Grande bends through Big Bend National Park in Texas, where the river is the international border, in a 2014 photograph.

Supreme Court lets border wall work resume through Big Bend, with Jackson the lone dissent

The official portrait of President Donald Trump, photographed at the White House in June 2026.

Trump says his deportation drive was "too tough" and that it cost him in the midterms

South Africa's president and ANC leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, at an event in Durban in 2018.

ANC falls from 45.59% to 30.76% in South Africa's municipal elections, leaving 127 of 213 councils hung

The United States Capitol in Washington at sunrise, in a photograph released by the House of Representatives in January 2023.

Congress returns for a five-week lame duck with a December 11 funding cliff and a leadership fight on Tuesday

Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, in August 2025.

Cuba's law cutting the government from 27 to 21 bodies takes effect, leaving 20 ministries

Gustavo Petro in an official photograph taken by Colombia's presidency in 2025, while he was still head of state.

Colombia's Supreme Court confirms it is investigating Gustavo Petro over state contracts allegedly traded for sex

Pedro Alliana, then vice president of Paraguay, during a meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington in August 2025.

Paraguay crisis

Santiago Peña stays in pretrial detention as Alliana's government pays out 1,196,000 Ueno depositors

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Valencia bar association, in Venezuela, in October 2023.

Transition in Venezuela

Machado and Edmundo González back the US plan to declare Venezuela's presidency vacant