By Ricardo Brito and Luciana Magalhaes BRASILIA (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial for charges of plotting a coup after he lost the 2022 election, did not attack democracy and has had his right to a fair defense restricted, his lawyer argued on Wednesday. “We did not have access to the …
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By Nolan D. McCaskill, Bo Erickson and Jack Queen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives committee on Tuesday said it released more than 33,000 pages of files on the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as party leadership looked to end a push by a bipartisan pair of lawmakers to force …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended a U.S. strike on what he called a drug-carrying boat from Venezuela a day after the United States said 11 people were killed on the vessel. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office for the visit of Polish President Karol Nawrocki that the boat was carrying …
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(Reuters) – The operators of Pornhub.com and other pornographic websites have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Utah that they deceived users by doing little to block videos and photos featuring child sexual abuse material and nonconsensual material, the agency said on Wednesday. “As part of a proposed order …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -A Chinese man staged a rare protest days before President Xi Jinping hosted global leaders for a military parade in Beijing by projecting anti-Communist slogans onto a building in a city in southwestern China, social media footage showed. Giant slogans saying “only without the Communist Party can there be a …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has agreed to pay the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru A$2.5 billion ($1.62 billion) over three decades to host deported non-citizens, with accommodation for the first deportees already prepared, Australian officials said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left government is expected to pass a law on Thursday making …
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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration’s recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean. “We just, over the last …
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LA PAZ (Reuters) -A Bolivian court sentenced two elderly Spanish Jesuit priests to a year each in prison on Tuesday for concealing decades of child sex abuse committed by their colleague in the church. The convictions of the priests, Marcos Recolons, 81, and Ramon Alaix, 83, mark Bolivia’s first successful criminal prosecution against high-ranking members …
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By Ricardo Brito and Luciana Magalhaes BRASILIA (Reuters) -The final phase of the landmark Supreme Court trial of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of plotting a coup began on Tuesday as the lead judge cast the case as a defense of democracy in the face of attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump. As …
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(Reuters) -Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday the U.S. military conducted a “lethal strike” in the southern Caribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela after President Donald Trump said U.S. forces “shot out” a drug-carrying boat that he linked to Venezuela. (Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Toronto;)
