Politics

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Brazilian presidential campaign takes off: Lula and Fernando Cardoso have joined forces to oust Bolsonaro

  

  The most polarized Brazilian presidential campaign in recent years was officially launched on Tuesday with ex-president Lula da Silva leading comfortably incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in opinion polls. But opinion polls in Brazil have not been very precise in recent elections and the Brazilian government still has too many resources at hand.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Truss if elected, will continue deploying the navy to tackle migrant's crossings of the English Channel

  

  Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has vowed to continue deploying the Royal Navy to tackle people making crossings of the English Channel in small boats if she becomes the next prime minister.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Tense moments mark ceremony at Brazil's TSE

  

  Brazilian former Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva (PT), Dilma Rousseff (PT), Michel Temer (MDB), and José Sarney (MDB) Tuesday sat opposite the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and the members of the Supreme Federal Court as Alexandre De Moraes was sworn in Tuesday as the Superior Electoral Court's new Chief Justice.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak tell Scots they reject a second independence referendum

  

  Conservative Party leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have rejected a second Scottish independence referendum at a hustings in Perth.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:03 UTC

  Rushdie's book back to best-selling mode after attack

  

  Sales of Salman Rushdie's 1988 The Satanic Verses have skyrocketed after its author was stabbed Friday in New York State by a young American of Lebanese origin, who has been charged with attempted murder.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 09:01 UTC

  US: Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law

  

  US President Joseph Biden Tuesday signed into law his Inflation Reduction Act concerning growing prices inflation, climate change, and other targets, which. He said it was one of the ”most significant laws in our history.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 08:45 UTC

  UK will resume visits for Chagossians descendants to their homeland

  

  The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has made public a page with brings together information on UK government support to people who were born on the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and their descendants.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 21:01 UTC

  Chile's proposed Constitution unlikely to prevail

  

  Three weeks ahead of Chile's Constitutional Plebiscite, the nays (Rejection)are still ahead, according to a survey by the consulting firm Cadem, which showed 46% of the voters would rather keep the Constitution drafted under Dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1980 instead of adopting the one penned by the Constitutional Assembly convened last year.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  FLOTUS tests positive for COVID-19

  

  US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, after showing cold-like symptoms Monday night which prompted PCR measurings, it was announced Tuesday by White House sources.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguayan FM stresses “One China” principle

  

  Uruguay's Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo said in an interview published over the weekend that his country adhered to the one-China principle whereby Taiwan would be a rogue province yet to rejoin the mainland politically.