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CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The former head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) could scarcely be more clear in his evaluations of America’s upcoming 2024 elections: They are not only awash with threats, said Chris Krebs during a recent Cyber Initiatives Group Summit, but they are also likely to wield…

Jane Birkin, the London-born actress and singer who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, died July 16 in Paris. She was 76. Her death was confirmed by French President Emmanuel Macron, who hailed Ms. Birkin as a “complete artist”…

Comment on this storyComment Andrea Papi was taking a jog in the woods around the northern Italian town of Caldes when he ran into the unimaginable: a female adult brown bear, known to authorities for its history of violence against humans. It mauled the 26-year-old runner to death. Just over…

Russia has a stockpile of cluster munitions and reserves the right to use them if Ukraine does, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state media published Sunday. His remarks came after President Biden approved the provision of U.S. cluster munitions for Ukraine this month and the Pentagon…

Comment on this storyComment BRASÍLIA — When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to Brazil’s presidential palace in January, he was characteristically confident. During his previous presidential term, between 2007 and 2010, the rate at which the Brazilian Amazon was being deforested plunged to record lows. Now in office again…

Comment on this storyComment The small plane that crashed in the Colombian Amazon this spring, killing three adults and leaving four young children to survive 40 days alone in the jungle, had suffered another accident less than two years earlier, records show. In July 2021, the six-seat, single-propeller Cessna 206,…