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By Luciana Magalhaes and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s Supreme Court threatened to order former President Jair Bolsonaro’s arrest unless his lawyers explain within 24 hours why he breached restrictions on his use of social media, a decision showed on Monday evening. The order summoning Bolsonaro’s lawyers was issued by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, …

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the freezing of the accounts and assets of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s third son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, the latter said in a post on social media on Monday. Eduardo, a Brazilian congressman who has been in Washington to drum up support for his father, called …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his civil rights …

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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES/SAN JOSE (Reuters) -American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Bill Cosby’s son Theo on the 1980s groundbreaking television hit “The Cosby Show,” died at age 54 on Monday by drowning, a law enforcement source confirmed to Reuters. Warner was vacationing in Costa Rica with his family, media reported. The Central American …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern districts of the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah for the first time on Monday, an area where Israeli sources said the military believes hostages may be held. The area is packed with Palestinians displaced during more than 21 months of war in Gaza, …

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QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadorean gang leader Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, known as “Fito,” is set to appear in U.S. federal court on Monday, where he will plead not guilty to international charges of drug and weapons trafficking, his lawyer said. Macias, the leader of the Los Choneros gang, was taken out of prison in Ecuador earlier …

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By Max Hunder and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles and hundreds of drones overnight, killing two people, wounding 15 and causing damage and fires in several parts of the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday. Explosions lit up the night sky and the high-pitched whine of drone engines …

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By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve on Monday added a video tour and new details about the renovation of two historical buildings at its headquarters in Washington, as the Trump administration ramps up attacks on U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates and criticizes the project’s cost and design. The …

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