Politics

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:17 UTC

  Neymar backs Bolsonaro over Lula

  

  Brazilian football star Neymar has supported incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro for Sunday's elections, which earned him heavy criticism from his country's media, where opposition candidate Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva looks poised to return to the Planalto Palace.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  AMLO's emergency hospitalization in January leaked to the press

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was hospitalized in January due to a serious health crisis that had been kept secret but became public Friday after confidential documents were accessed by hackers who leaked them to the press.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Annexation of Ukrainian territories to Russia formalized in Moscow

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday announced the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine following the outcome of the referendums, according to which a large majority of locals wanted to sever ties with Kyiv.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Labour Conference votes a manifesto commitment to proportional representation

  

  The Labour Party Conference has voted for a manifesto commitment to proportional representation for general elections. This is described as a massive moment for democracy in the UK. Now all major parties, bar the Conservatives, are united on the need for electoral reform and committed to delivering a fair electoral system where every vote counts.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Fourth Committee on Decolonization approves program for UN General Assembly 77th session

  

  The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization Committee) approved its work program for the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, covering topics ranging from the decolonization of the 17 remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories and United Nations peacekeeping operations, to the plight of Palestinian refugees and other Arab territories, among other agenda items.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng play, “Britannia Unhinged”

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – “The Queen’s final act of service to the nation was to selflessly buy the economy one last fortnight,” said one tweet when all four wheels finally came off the British economy.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 23:48 UTC

  Lula and Bolsonaro trade accusations in last TV debate

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva (PT) and the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro (PL) Thursday engaged in bitter arguments during the last TV debate ahead of Sunday's elections.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 19:03 UTC

  One official dead as Paraguay's Electoral Court HQs go down in flames

  

  One person was killed in Asunción as the headquarters of Paraguay's Superior Tribunal of Electoral Justice (TSJE) went on fire Thursday two and a half months before the primaries. Thousands of electronic ballot boxes were also engulfed by the flames-

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 18:55 UTC

  Chilean President a “lapdog” of the US for Nicaragua's Ortega

  

  Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega Wednesday dubbed Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font a “lapdog” of the US administration and insisted it had become fashionable to request the release of political prisoners in his country.

• Friday, September 30th 2022 - 15:59 UTC

  Venezuela ups military strength on Caribbean coast to fight drug trafficking

  

  Venezuela's military strength in the northernmost Paraguaná peninsula on the Caribbean seashore has been upped Thursday as President Nicolás Maduro urged authorities from the Dutch territories of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao to join efforts against drug trafficking in the area.