Argentina’s Peronist machine is in high gear to shore up shaky votes before the presidential runoff | AP News

Argentina’s Peronist machine is in high gear to shore up shaky votes before the presidential runoff | AP News

CIUDAD EVITA, Argentina (AP) — As Argentina heads for a presidential runoff election on Sunday, the decades-old populist movement known as Peronism is on shaky ground, its candidate having lost some traction even among longtime loyalists living in a suburb of the capital that is its literal and figurative embodiment.Built in the 1950s by Peronism’s

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Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Germany as differences over Israel-Hamas war widen | AP News

Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Germany as differences over Israel-Hamas war widen | AP News

BERLIN (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected in Berlin on Friday on a short visit to Germany as the two countries’ stances on the war between Israel and Hamas are poles apart.Erdogan is due to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s largely ceremonial president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Scholz invited Erdogan to visit in

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Biden and Mexico’s leader will meet in California. Fentanyl, migrants and Cuba are on the agenda | AP News

Biden and Mexico’s leader will meet in California. Fentanyl, migrants and Cuba are on the agenda | AP News

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, two strong allies who don’t always get along personally, will talk migration, fentanyl trafficking and Cuba relations on Friday. The two leaders are in San Francisco for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, where Biden has held a series of face-to-face

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