Axios

President Biden declared at this week's Summit for Democracy that the tide is turning in the global struggle between democracies and autocracies.

Driving the news: In drawing up invitations, though, Biden had to make some awkward calls as to which countries fall on which side.

Turkey's parliament on Thursday approved Finland's NATO membership, clearing the way for the Nordic country to join the alliance.

Why it matters: Finland's NATO membership, once official, will more than double the length of the alliance's borders with Russia — dramatically changing the security landscape in Europe.

The latest analysis of diversity in Hollywood found that Latinos and other people of color are more likely to write, direct and star in films made for streaming services than those first released in theaters.

The big picture: Movies that featured diverse casts outperformed those that didn't regardless of how they're released, according to the the UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report, which was published today.

Hispanic Catholics in 2022 accounted for the largest percentage of people who identify with a religion in the American Southwest, surpassing the share of white evangelicals in the region, according to a survey released last month.

The big picture: Latino Catholics have also eclipsed white mainline Protestants in California, New Mexico and Texas.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro landed in Brazil early Thursday for the first time since his leftist political rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, returned to the presidency.

The big picture: Bolsonaro, who never formally conceded defeat in last year's election, left Brazil and flew to Florida just days before Lula's inauguration on Jan. 1. Bolsonaro faces a slew of investigations, including a probe into whether he incited the Jan. 8 attack on Brazil's Congress and other government buildings by his supporters. The far-right leader denies any wrongdoing.

In 2011, the Marshall Islands and Palau sought to put a climate case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It failed to gain enough traction.

Why it matters: On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly took the extraordinary step of adopting, by consensus, a resolution that would do just that. It's asking the court for an advisory opinion laying out what countries' obligations are to protect the climate in order to secure human rights.

Mexican authorities say they've detained eight suspects in connection to the fire at a migrant facility in Ciudad Juárez that left dozens dead on Monday after a video showed security guards leaving people behind bars before fleeing.

Driving the news: Security and public safety minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez said during a news conference on Wednesday that those detained include two federal agents, five people who worked for the private security company that ran the center and a state employee.