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Former president Jair Bolsonaro remains the most influential figurehead for the right in Brazilian politics.
Police accuse Bolsonaro of fraud over COVID vaccine records
BRASILIA — Brazilian police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of fraud relating to his COVID vaccination records, paving the way for possible criminal charges in the Supreme Court.His health records say he received the vaccine in Sao Paulo in 2021. But an investigation later found he was not in the city at the time.Bolsonaro, a COVID skeptic who publicly vowed never to have the vaccine, has denied any knowledge of records being tampered with.Almost 700,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US.The federal police accuse Bolsonaro — who regularly downplayed the severity of the virus — and eight other people of plotting to issue “false certificates to obtain undue advantages” during the pandemic.Vaccination was an...
March 19, 2024

Police accuse Bolsonaro of fraud over COVID vaccine records

Former Mississippi police officer Hunter Elward has been sentenced to 20 years.
Ex-police officer sentenced to 20 years in Mississippi torture case
WASHINGTON — Former Mississippi police officer Hunter Elward has been sentenced to 20 years for his role in torturing two black men in their own home.Elward is the first of six officers due to be sentenced this week.The victims were beaten, shocked with stun guns and sexually assaulted by the officers who burst in without a warrant in 2023. One of them was also shot in the mouth.The group pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses in August.Elward’s sentencing will be followed by the other five: Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jerffrey Middleton, Daniel Opydke and Joshua Hartfield.On Tuesday, US District Judge Tom Lee called Elward’s crimes “egregious and despicable”, local media reported.Each faces the possibility of decades in prison on the charges, which include...
March 19, 2024

Ex-police officer sentenced to 20 years in Mississippi torture case

Pope Francis, 87, became pontiff in 2013.
Pope Francis puts rumors of retirement to rest in new memoir
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has no intention of retiring and plans to remain in post for life, according to his new autobiography.In "Life: My Story Through History", Pope Francis, who is 87, says there is "no risk" of him resigning despite speculation he might step down following a spate of health issues."I believe the pope's ministry is ad vitam, for life," Francis says."I therefore see no justification for giving it up."Earlier this year, Francis canceled meetings and audiences due to ill health. He has suffered from frequent bouts of influenza, has difficult walking and is increasingly seen using a wheelchair.These issues, as well as the Pope's age, have prompted questions about the future of the Catholic Church.Despite denying he is...
March 19, 2024

Pope Francis puts rumors of retirement to rest in new memoir

Rising sea levels are causing the regular flooding of homes in Bangladesh. — courtesy WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud
Records smashed — new WMO climate report confirms 2023 hottest so far
GENEVA — Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, ice cover and glacier retreat, a new global report issued by the UN weather agency (WMO) on Tuesday shows.Heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones caused misery and mayhem, upending everyday life for millions and inflicting many billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report.“Sirens are blaring across all major indicators... Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting. And changes are speeding up,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a video message for the launch.Based on data from multiple agencies, the study confirmed that...
March 19, 2024

Records smashed — new WMO climate report confirms 2023 hottest so far

Peter Navarro at a Miami, Florida, gas station on Tuesday. — courtesy CNN
Peter Navarro: Ex-Trump adviser to begin prison sentence
WASHINGTON — Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Donald Trump, will begin a four-month jail term for contempt of congress in federal prison on Tuesday.Navarro, 74, was convicted last year after ignoring a subpoena from a House committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 2021.A Supreme Court justice denied his last-ditch appeal to stay out of prison on Monday. He will be the first Trump-era official to be jailed for contempt of Congress.Navarro has until 14:00 local time (18:00 GMT) to report to a federal prison in Miami to begin his sentence. The facility, FCI Miami, is a low security facility with an adjacent minimum-security camp.At the end of January, three years after the attack by former President Trump's supporters on Congress, Navarro was given the sentence and...
March 19, 2024

Peter Navarro: Ex-Trump adviser to begin prison sentence

A young displaced Palestinian holds on to the food aid by UN humanitarians. — courtesy WFP/Abubaker Garelnabei
Gaza’s entire population facing acute food insecurity, Blinken warns
MANILA — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said all of Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity”.This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about conditions in the territory.Blinken called on Israel to prioritize providing for those in need.UN agencies have said north Gaza could face famine by May without a pause in the fighting and a surge in aid.Blinken’s warning came during a trip to the Philippines as US officials announced that he would then travel to the Middle East, his sixth trip to the region since October, as efforts to secure a ceasefire continue.Israeli negotiators are due to begin talks in Qatar on Tuesday in a fresh attempt to agree a deal with Hamas to halt the...
March 19, 2024

Gaza’s entire population facing acute food insecurity, Blinken warns

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin seen in this file photo.
Austin says US support for Ukraine remains resolute
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin emphasized Tuesday that the US “will not let Ukraine fail,” as Congress continues to delay critical funding for Ukraine aid.Speaking in Germany at the 20th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Austin said Ukraine’s military continues “to degrade the Kremlin’s capabilities.”“Ukraine won’t back down, and neither will the United States,” said Austin, while seated next to Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. “So, our message today is clear: The United States will not let Ukraine fail. This coalition will not let Ukraine fail. And the free world will not let Ukraine fail.”The trip is Austin’s first official trip abroad since his prostate cancer procedure in...
March 19, 2024

Austin says US support for Ukraine remains resolute

Polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about immigration and the handling of the US-Mexico border. — Getty Images
Supreme Court again blocks Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has again blocked a Texas immigration law that President Joe Biden’s administration has called unconstitutional from taking effect.SB4 would allow local and state police to arrest those illegally crossing the border from Mexico. It would be among the toughest immigration measures in any US state.A record high of at least 6.3 million migrants have been held crossing illegally into the US since Biden took office in 2021.In Monday’s ruling, the Supreme Court imposed an administrative stay, meaning SB4 cannot be enforced while emergency appeals from the Biden administration and other challengers play out.Justice Samuel Alito’s brief order suggested the court could take additional action. It is the third time the conservative justice has paused SB4.SB4...
March 19, 2024

Supreme Court again blocks Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants

Prince William meets volunteer in Sheffield. — courtesy PA Media
Prince William visits homelessness project
LONDON — The Prince of Wales is visiting housing initiatives in Sheffield on Tuesday to promote his homelessness project.It comes as the Sun published a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, on a shopping trip with Prince William.After being out of public sight since Christmas, she looked relaxed and smiling in video images from a farm shop in Windsor.The prince will be hoping the focus will return to one of his personal causes.There will have been a sense of relief from Prince William to get back to the grittier business of public duty. We heard no discussion about his wife or any of the family photographs — that was off the agenda.The prince and princess have had a difficult start to the year, with Catherine having abdominal surgery and spending time in recovery. She is expected to...
March 19, 2024

Prince William visits homelessness project

Lionel Messi (second from right) remained on the bench throughout the friendly game between Inter Miami and the Hong Kong team
Messi fans to get 50% refund for no-show match in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — Lionel Messi's Hong Kong fans who bought tickets to a friendly that he skipped at the last minute will get a 50% refund, the match organizer said.Messi's absence from the game in February, which he blamed on an injury, sent Chinse fans seething for weeks.Ticketholders applying for refunds must agree not to pursue legal action, Tatler Asia said.The refunds could cost up to HK$56m (£5.6m; $7.1m), the publication said.Fans had paid up to HK$4,880 each to watch the 36-year-old Argentine footballer but Messi remained on the bench throughout the match.Some 38,000 spectators at the sold-out Hong Kong Stadium booed and demanded refunds at the end of the game.Tatler Asia had said it was told only at halftime that Messi would not be playing and that they...
March 19, 2024

Messi fans to get 50% refund for no-show match in Hong Kong

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