Politics

Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:34 UTC
Bolsonaro and Economy minister cell phones hacked: four suspects arrested

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's cell phones were allegedly targeted by a group of hackers who are also accused of breaching the devices of the investigators in a massive corruption probe, the justice ministry said on Thursday.
Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:25 UTC
Spain's socialist president Sánchez has two months to avoid a new election

Spain's caretaker socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez lost a crunch post-election vote of confidence on Thursday after coalition talks with the far-left failed, pushing the country closer to repeat polls.
Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:19 UTC
Uruguay/US lesbian couple's teenage attackers will face youth court in London

British police on Thursday charged four teenage boys over an alleged homophobic attack on a lesbian couple who refused to kiss in front of them on a London night bus.
Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:08 UTC
US reinstates capital penalty: five inmates in death row waiting for pentobarbital injections

The US Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long-dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.
Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:37 UTC
Johnson/Macri, a ten-year friendship since they were mayors of London and Buenos Aires

The Argentine media is pointing out that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Argentine president Mauricio Macri first met when they were mayors of London and Buenos Aires, --and full of ambitions--, and have since had a cordial standing personal relation. The first meeting took place at the Davos summit, Switzerland, in January 2009, and according to witnesses the chemistry was immediate.
Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:20 UTC
Maduro blames “desperate” US for the latest blackout that plunged most of Venezuela in the dark

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday blamed the “desperate” United States for a major power cut that affected large parts of the crisis-wracked country on Monday.
Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:16 UTC
Teheran threatens to cut Brazilian imports if Iranian vessels are not refueled

Iran has threatened to cut its imports from Brazil unless it allows the refuelling of at least two Iranian ships stranded off the Brazilian coast, a sign of the global repercussions of U.S. sanctions on the Islamic republic.
Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:16 UTC
Four people arrested in Brazil for hacking ministers and judges' phones

Brazil's federal police arrested four people for allegedly hacking the phone of Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, a key member of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's Cabinet who had previously been a renowned anti-corruption judge.
Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 08:09 UTC
Boris, the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

By Gwynne Dyer - It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom, UK) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Trump’s bombastic self-promotion and Johnson’s self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.
Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 07:41 UTC
Standing ovation in Parliament as Theresa May left Commons for the last time as prime minister

British lawmakers gave outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May a standing ovation as they applauded her out of the House of Commons chamber after her final, at times emotional, appearance as leader on Wednesday.