US President Donald Trump’s administration has strong links to Bolsonaro and his father Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest in Brazil after attempting to overturn his own electoral loss to Lula in 2022.
North Korea fired around a dozen short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Thursday, Seoul’s defence ministry said. The North Korean capital Pyongyang has stepped up weapons tests in recent weeks despite South Korea’s offer of military talks.
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Thursday that it would leave its key interest rates unchanged. The interest rates on the deposit facility, the main refinancing operations and the marginal lending facility will remain unchanged at 2.5 percent, 2.65 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively. Rising energy prices are posing upside risks to…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday criticized defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for leaving the country following the election, calling the move “shameful”. “I regret that he left Brazil … And his decision to leave Brazil is shameful,” Lula told supporters who gathered outside the Alvorada Palace, the…
The French government has announced 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) for university renovations and 4 billion euros in loans for local authorities to upgrade high schools, in a bid to defuse ongoing student protests across the country. Reactions have been mixed with university student leaders dismissing government ministers as “totally clueless” and vowing to press…
Healthcare workers assist a patient who has been cleared of Ebola at a treatment center in Beni, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Tuesday. SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI/AP Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and international partners are intensifying efforts to contain the current Ebola outbreak, as confirmed cases have…
Virginians cast their ballots during early voting for the midterm elections at the Franconia Governmental Center in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday. JIM LO SCALZO/EPA The United States will vote on Tuesday in the 2026 midterm elections, a key test of public sentiment toward President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, with economic concerns high on…
Lower court sentenced Yoon in February to life imprisonment for attempting to impose martial law in 2024
With more than 90% of the ballots counted on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc has gained 53 seats, with the opposition at 67, including 48 for Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist bloc and 19 for the Arab-majority parties. The Israeli president called on the parties on Wednesday to “do everything” to form a government coalition…
The governor of New York State has signed a new law that prevents minors from using AI chatbots that act as companions, one of the broadest moves yet to restrict consumer-facing models.The law, signed on Wednesday, requires chatbot operators, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to verify users’ ages and restrict certain traits in the AI interface…