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BRASILIA, (Reuters) – One of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s closest aides sought legal advice for a military intervention that would have prevented the handover of power following last October’s election, federal police said yesterday.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ House of Orange profited by around 3 million guilders, or $600 million in modern terms, from Dutch colonies in the 1675-1770 period, a study commissioned by the government has found.

(Reuters) – “Only human creators are eligible” for the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy declared yesterday, as the body that grants the world’s most recognized music awards seeks to curb the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified “Pentagon Papers,” revealing U.S.

(Reuters) – Police in Minneapolis routinely use excessive force and discriminate against Black and Native American people, the U.S.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The head of the United Nation’s climate body said yesterday he was not satisfied with the outcome of a 10-day conference and the process was moving too slowly given the urgency of the climate crisis.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A delegation of African leaders began a peace mission in Kyiv today, undeterred by what Ukraine said was a volley of Russian missiles intended to greet them in the capital.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters, saying it was now working with six more countries than previously revealed to track the potentially deadly children’s medicines.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used file-transfer software, officials said yesterday.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesia’s attorney general’s office has named three palm oil companies as suspects in a corruption investigation, alleging misconduct in obtaining export permits at a time when shipments were being restricted.

LUBBOCK, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Texas panhandle town of Perryton was struck yesterday by one or more tornadoes, causing fatalities, the mayor said, as images from the ground showed much of the town left in rubble by the twister as emergency crews searched for survivors.

AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Roofs were blown off houses and trees and electric poles uprooted in several parts of India’s western state of Gujarat as a severe cyclone made landfall overnight and heavy rain continued to lash the coast early today.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said today that countries must start phasing out oil, coal and gas – not just emissions – and demanded fossil fuel companies “cease and desist” measures that aim to “knee-cap” climate progress.

ROME, (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Jesuit order said today it had expelled Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, an internationally-known religious artist accused of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson deliberately misled the British parliament in an unprecedented way over rule-breaking parties at his office during COVID-19 lockdowns, a committee said today in a damning verdict that further tarnished the former prime minister Almost a year ago, Johnson was talking about remaining prime minister into the 2030s.

KALAMATA, Greece,  (Reuters) – At least 79 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and hundreds more were missing and feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece, in one of Europe’s deadliest shipping disasters in recent years.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – The Clooney Foundation for Justice has accused Venezuelan security forces of crimes against humanity against government opponents since 2014 in a lawsuit filed in Argentina on Wednesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – King Charles held a reception at Buckingham Palace yesterday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the start of the arrival of the ‘Windrush generation’ of post-war migrants to Britain from the Caribbean.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele yesterday signed into law a bill to slash the country’s 262 municipalities to just 44, a move the government says will cut spending but that the opposition decries as a power grab.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Shooting their way through truces, Sudan’s warring factions have shown the limited leverage the United States, Saudi Arabia and other foreign powers have in ending a two-month conflict that is driving the nation deeper into disaster.