Key Bolsonaro lieutenant blasts Biden for silence on Brazil’s X ban: US has ‘responsibility’ to speak up
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A foreign minister who served under former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called on the Biden administration to condemn his country’s ban on social media platform X, saying the U.S. has a ‘responsibility’ to speak up. Ernesto Araújo, who served as foreign minister under Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2021, said the U.S. has a ‘responsibility to Read More
Harris flips on another policy position: Banning plastic straws
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has flipped on another policy — banning plastic straws. Harris’ campaign has abandoned the vice president’s previous position from the 2020 Democratic primary in which she stated unequivocally that plastic straws should be banned due to environmental considerations. “She doesn’t support banning plastic straws,” a campaign official told Read More
Collin Allred responds to comparisons with Beto O’Rourke’s campaign, defends his strategy
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Allred has run a more traditional campaign, focusing on targeted ads and moderate policy.
Stefanik files ethics complaint against Trump trial judge alleging Harris campaign paid his daughter’s company
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Rep. Elise Stefanik has filed an ethics complaint against New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan “for his illegal conflict of interest in the sham Manhattan trial against President Trump,” alleging the Harris campaign has a “newly active financial relationship” with a company led in part by his daughter. The filing with the New York State Read More
SOP released by Rajasthan police to safeguard threatened live-in couples, married couple
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The SOP, issued by Additional Director General of Police (Civil Rights), Bhupendra Sahu, aims to ensure that couples under threat can quickly access police protection.
Trump claims no ‘lifts’ or ‘stands’ will be allowed at debate with Kamala Harris
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Former President Donald Trump claims that the upcoming presidential debate will not allow for adjustments to the nominees’ height behind the podium. Trump made the comment in a Saturday post on his proprietary social media platform Truth Social. “No boxes or artificial lifts will be allowed to stand on [sic] during my upcoming debate with Read More
UP: 5 dead, several injured after 3-storey building collapses in Lucknow
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Five people were killed and 24 others were injured when a three-storey building collapsed in the Transport Nagar area here on Saturday evening, officials said.
At least five killed as ethnic violence flares in India’s Manipur
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State government orders all schools in the state to remain shut citing security concerns after latest spurt of violence. At least five people, including one civilian, have been killed as violence flared between two warring ethnic communities in the restive northeastern Indian state of Manipur, according to authorities. Manipur has been rocked by periodic violence Read More
Kosovo closes two of four border crossings with Serbia after protests
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Kosovo’s Interior Ministry blamed the closures on ‘masked extremists’ blocking traffic into Serbia. Kosovo has closed two of its four border crossings with Serbia, the government said, after protesters on the Serbian side blocked roads and turned away passengers carrying Kosovo documents. The closures at the Brnjak and Merdare crossings – both located in Kosovo’s Read More
Mexico arrests alleged cartel kingpin tied to 43 missing students
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Gildardo Lopez Astudillo’s arrest comes weeks before the 10th anniversary of the students’ disappearance. Authorities in Mexico say they have arrested an alleged cartel chief linked to the decade-old disappearance of dozens of students. Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, the suspected cartel leader, was detained on charges of “organised crime” and taken to the Altiplano maximum security Read More