Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the Philippine president on a rare Asian trip to urge regional leaders to attend a Swiss-organized peace summit on the war in Ukraine that he accuses Russia, with China’s help, of trying to undermine. Zelenskyy arrived unannounced and under heavy security in Manila late Sunday after speaking over the weekend at the Shangri-La defense forum in Singapore. Zelenskyy was given a red-carpet welcome with military honors Monday at the presidential palace in Manila before meeting with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Officials say Marcos pledged that the Philippines would take part in the peace summit.

Mexico’s first female president held out an olive branch to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but she faces a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, said “our duty will always be to look out for each and every Mexican, without distinctions.” Long-delayed initial vote counts gave her a crushing margin of victory, higher even than the one López Obrador won in 2018. With about 78% of votes counted, Sheinbaum was getting about 59% of votes, about twice as many as her nearest competitor Xóchitl Gálvez, who got around 28%.

Claudia Sheinbaum’s name will go down in Mexican history. The governing party candidate has won Mexico’s presidential election, a turning point in a mostly conservative nation that for over two centuries has been exclusively ruled by men. Elsewhere in Latin America, women have led countries including Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile. Mexican women won the right to vote in 1953. No law prevented female candidates from holding office, but sexism and “macho” culture continues to permeate the country of 129 million people. Among the issues that Mexican women face are femicide, a gender employment gap and a lack of adequate policies guaranteeing sexual and reproductive rights.

Mexico’s projected election winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president in the country’s 200-year history. The climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor said Sunday night that her two competitors had called her and conceded her victory. She said Sunday had demonstrated that Mexico is a democratic country with peaceful elections. The National Electoral Institute’s president said Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a statistical sample. Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez had between 26.6% and 28.6%. The governing party candidate campaigned on continuing the political course set by her political mentor President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who quickly congratulated her.