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Stories for January 20th 2023

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

    Brazil: TSE agrees to yet another investigation targetting Bolsonaro

    Justice Gonçalves found that there was enough evidence to warrant the opening of the inquest

    Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Benedito Gonçalves acquiesced Thursday to a request from President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's Workers' Party (PT) to open an investigation against former President Jair Bolsonaro for his abuse of power in the 2022 elections.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Penguin Awareness Day; Falklands home of five species, King, Magellanic, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Macaroni

    The term Penguin was first published in the 16th century as a synonym for Great Auk. There is a debate about the etymology of the name “Penguin”

    Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated on January 20 of every year. Penguins are a group of aquatic and flightless birds. They live in the Southern Hemisphere, and a particular species of the Penguin named Galapagos Penguin is found only in the north equator region called Temperate Zone.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    More protesters killed during Lima Takeover

    Boluarte insisted the protesters want to take over the country through violence

    The number of people killed after President Dina Boluarte took office early last month following the impeachment of Pedro Castillo Terrones, who had tried to dissolve Congress and ruled by decree, has reached 54 Thursday as demonstrators staged the so-called Lima Takeover in the Peruvian capital and clashes with law enforcement officers were reported in other parts of the violence-torn South American country.

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