Police fired teargas at farmers protesting the EU’s planned trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur in Brussels Thursday, as Brazil opened the door to postponing its signature to win over reluctant Europeans. About 1,000 honking tractors rolled into the Belgian capital, where the deal loomed large over an EU summit focused on funding Ukraine’s war effort. […]
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A leader of Bangladesh’s 2024 uprising who was wounded in an assassination attempt and flown to Singapore for treatment has died in the city-state, officials said on Friday. Masked attackers shot Sharif Osman Hadi, 32, a week ago as he was leaving a mosque in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, wounding him in the ear.”Despite the […]
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US House Democrats on Thursday published a fresh batch of photographs from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, stepping up pressure on Donald Trump’s administration on the eve of its deadline to release federal files on the late financier and convicted sex offender. The 68 images — shared without added context — are part of a much larger […]
Read MoreA renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city’s film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall, AFP journalists saw Thursday. Built in the 1960s, the Ariana was pillaged and destroyed in Afghanistan’s civil war of 1992-1996, before a French-led restoration effort that saw it reopen in 2004. But with the […]
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A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city’s film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall, AFP journalists saw Thursday. Built in the 1960s, the Ariana was pillaged and destroyed in Afghanistan’s civil war of 1992-1996, before a French-led restoration effort that saw it reopen in 2004. But with the […]
Read MoreO Banco Central Europeu (BCE) revisou para cima suas projeções de crescimento e inflação para a zona do euro nesta quinta-feira (18) e manteve sua taxa básica de juros inalterada, alegando que o aumento dos preços permanece próximo a 2%. A instituição com sede em Frankfurt elevou sua projeção de crescimento econômico para os 20 países […]
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The leaders of Brazil and Mexico on Thursday offered to step in to try and avert the risk of war between the United States and Venezuela. The Latin American heavyweights are looking on in dismay as Washington ramps up military and economic pressure on Nicholas Maduro’s government, raising fears of a direct effort to unseat […]
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Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of New York’s conservative Archbishop Timothy Dolan and named a little-known, pro-migrant bishop from his native Chicago to replace him, the Vatican said Thursday. In a significant shift for the Catholic Church in the United States, Leo replaced Dolan, who stepped down after reaching the Church’s retirement age […]
Read MoreWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against the Nobel Foundation after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Peace Prize. This year’s prize represented a “gross misappropriation” of funds and the “facilitation of war crimes” under Swedish law, according to the complaint posted by WikiLeaks on social media. The Nobel Committee […]
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