Audios rather more than hearsay

C ould redefining friendly fire form part of the government’s urgent need to reinvent itself in its political winter? Those explosive voice note recordings pointing to corruption in the highest presidential circles... Read more »

What to know about the verdict and sentencing phase of Bolsonaro’s trial in Brazil :: WRAL.com

SAO PAULO (AP) — The verdict and sentencing phase in the coup trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro starts Tuesday at the Supreme Court in Brasilia. The embattled leader faces a... Read more »

US pressure may break Iranian influence in Iraq | Opinions

Over the past two years, Iran’s network of allies in the Middle East has taken painful blows. In Syria, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad collapsed. In Lebanon, Hezbollah was forced to... Read more »

Forget about October, what matters is the day after

Argentines voted for Javier Milei on two assumptions. One, that he could sort out the economy, which had been in a slow-motion hyperinflation for half a decade. Two, that he was different... Read more »

A week of protests in Indonesia fuelled by glaring social inequality

Protests continued yesterday in many cities across Indonesia after a 21-year-old man, Affan Kurniawan, died from being hit by an armoured police vehicle as police aggressively tried to break up a rally... Read more »

Tinubu’s visit to Brazil may change his administration’s policy direction — Adebayo

Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, believes the recent state visit by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Brazil may change the policy direction... Read more »

Milei government panics after fresh leak of Karina audio

An emergency meeting took place at the Casa Rosada on Saturday as President Javier Milei’s government reacted to the leak of another damaging audio recording. Cabinet officials and top advisers were summoned... Read more »

Income of Brazil’s richest 0.1% grows five times faster than average

From 2017 to 2023, the richest 0.1 percent of Brazilians saw their income grow five times faster than that the average Brazilian. In six years, the real income of the richest 160... Read more »

Chicago mayor signs order to resist possible Trump troop deployment | Donald Trump News

The mayor of Chicago has signed an executive order seeking to protect residents against a possible decision by United States President Donald Trump’s administration to deploy federal troops to the city. Mayor... Read more »

Crisis in Argentina’s Armed Forces as poor salaries lead to exodus

Argentina’s economic crisis shows no sign of slowing and wages across much of the national economy remain below any acceptable standard of consumption. This has triggered a crisis of major proportions within... Read more »