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🇵🇪 Peru reopened Machu Picchu to the public yesterday after reaching an agreement with protesters. Quick background: Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Incan religious monument that drew an estimated 1.11 million international visitors last year. It had been closed since mid-January in response to mass protests calling for the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, who replaced then-President Pedro Castillo in December after he was impeached and imprisoned for trying to dissolve Congress.

🎈🇷🇺 Balloons are everywhere, apparently – six Russian ones were spotted over Kyiv yesterday. Ukrainian officials told Reuters that their military managed to shoot down “most” of the balloons, which were likely flown over the country to test its aerial defensive capabilities. Separately, the UK’s defense secretary said Russia has now deployed 97% of its entire army into Ukraine, though he didn’t mention how many individual troops are accounted for in that figure.

🇨🇱 A new analysis shows deceased Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died from poison five decades ago, his family told NPR. Neruda, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away in 1973 due to what officials at the time claimed was prostate cancer – though Neruda’s family has consistently said he was poisoned. The poet’s death came days after the US-backed Chilean military deposed Neruda’s friend and ally President Salvador Allende. Hours before he died, Neruda reportedly told his longtime driver that he was going to flee to Mexico and lead the opposition movement against new Chilean President Augusto Pinochet.