Brazil’s Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data

Brazil’s Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in store.The Supreme Court released the police’s indictment on Tuesday that alleges Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into

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UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate.The World Meteorological Organization, in a “State of the

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US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes

US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes

Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn’t hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily

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Iraq’s former defense minister wanted in Sweden for fraud is arrested at the Stockholm airport

Iraq’s former defense minister wanted in Sweden for fraud is arrested at the Stockholm airport

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Iraq’s former defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, has been arrested in Sweden, authorities said Tuesday. He is suspected of illegally receiving benefits in the Scandinavian country.Prosecutor Jens Nilsson told Swedish broadcaster SVT that Najah al-Shammari has been wanted for almost a year and a half. The prosecutor told broadcaster

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Moldova expels Russian diplomat over presidential polling stations in breakaway Transnistria region

Moldova expels Russian diplomat over presidential polling stations in breakaway Transnistria region

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova said Tuesday it has expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential election in Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria.Relations are increasingly fraught between Russia and Moldova, whose pro-Western government has firmly opposed Russia’s full-scale war in neighboring Ukraine.Moldova summoned Russia’s ambassador, Oleg Vasnetsov, to protest

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Armenia’s prime minister says quick border demarcation needed to avoid new conflict with Azerbaijan

Armenia’s prime minister says quick border demarcation needed to avoid new conflict with Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister said Tuesday that the Caucasus nation needs to quickly delimitate the border with neighboring Azerbaijan to avoid a new round of hostilities.Speaking to residents of the village of Voskepar in the Tavush region on border with Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned that Armenia’s refusal to delineate the

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UN chief decries violence in west Myanmar as two dozen villagers are reported killed in airstrikes

UN chief decries violence in west Myanmar as two dozen villagers are reported killed in airstrikes

BANGKOK (AP) — Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence.According to the reports, the airstrikes took place early on Monday morning and targeted the village of Thada, north of Minbya

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Stefanović (SSP): Naprednjačkoj Srbiji suštinski nije bitno ko će biti predsednik Skupštine

Stefanović (SSP): Naprednjačkoj Srbiji suštinski nije bitno ko će biti predsednik Skupštine

Politika | 19.03.2024 | access_time 12:10 Foto: Beta/MILAN OBRADOVIC Zamenik predsednika Stranke slobode i pravde (SSP) Borko Stefanović ocenio je danas da vlast “zloupotrebljava” predsedavajućeg Skupštini Srbije Stojana Radenovića koji po njegovim rečima, odbija da da reč poslanicima opozicije “i kad je obavezan da to učini”.Stefanović je za televiziju Nova S ocenio da u “naprednjačkoj

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Aleksić: Vučić kupuje podršku međunarodnih zvaničnika prodajom nacionalnih interesa

Aleksić: Vučić kupuje podršku međunarodnih zvaničnika prodajom nacionalnih interesa

Politika | 19.03.2024 | access_time 12:05 Predsednik Narodnog pokreta Srbije Miroslav Aleksić ocenio je danas da predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić “kupuje podršku” međunarodnih zvaničnika time što kako je rekao, rasprodaje nacionalne interese.Aleksić je za televiziju N1 ocenio da je Vučiću “pošlo za rukom da korumpira međunarodne zvaničnike”.”To radi godinama unazad. Nekom da Generalštab, nekom zlato

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