BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro slammed Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday for investigating an alleged disinformation and intimidation campaign by his supporters, as a political crisis deepened amid the country’s accelerating COVID-19 outbreak. In an escalating confrontation with the court, Bolsonaro decried court-ordered police raids on Wednesday into the homes of business leaders, bloggers […]

Iranian officials have previously dismissed allegations of running coordinated disinformation campaigns as ‘ridiculous’. Iran’s state broadcaster has used hundreds of fake social media accounts to covertly spread pro-Iranian messaging online since at least 2011, targeting voters in countries including the United Kingdom and the United States, Facebook said on Tuesday. In a monthly report of […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Moscow court on Thursday jailed a prominent anti-Kremlin journalist for a one-person protest during the city’s coronavirus lockdown, sentencing him to 15 days in prison. Ilya Azar, a journalist at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is critical of the Kremlin, was detained by police on Tuesday as he stood alone outside […]

‘We cannot even divorce freely?’ Furious Chinese blast their leaders as Beijing demands all divorcing couples complete a 30-day ‘cooling-off’ period China passed a new law to enforce a ‘cooling-off period’ on divorcing couples Officials hope the act can prevent married partners from splitting ‘impulsively’ It is part of China’s first ever Civil Code which […]

ESTES PARK — The wisdom on the street in this tourist mecca is that the true unofficial start to summer 2020 won’t be the Memorial Day holiday just passed but, rather, the weekend straight ahead. “This coming weekend will be busier,” Amy Hamrick, owner of Kind Coffee on East Elkhorn Avenue in Estes Park, said […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is planning to cancel the visas of thousands of Chinese graduate students believed by President Donald Trump’s administration to have links with China’s military, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The move, first reported by the New York Times, could impact 3,000 to 5,000 Chinese […]

The US, UK, Australia and Canada have issued fresh condemnation of Beijing’s new security law for Hong Kong, which they say has “flourished as a bastion of freedom”. They say the international community has a “significant and long-standing stake” in its prosperity and stability. China’s move to impose the new law during a global pandemic […]

Federal authorities in New York charged a Venezuelan political leader Wednesday for allegedly conspiring with Middle East terrorist organizations to traffic tons of cocaine into the United States. The suspect, 56-year-old Adel El Zabayar, allegedly conspired with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to traffic drugs while serving as a member of the country’s national assembly, prosecutors […]

A MURDER probe has been launched after a 13-week-old baby girl was found dead at a home in Gosport. A 24-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after the horror but has since been released under investigation. Police were scrambled to the home in Hampshire where they discovered the tot seriously unwell. Paramedics desperately […]

All mine! Twins’ attempt at the Fruit Snack Challenge ends in tears – but only for one of them Hailey and Hayden Larkin, two, from Delaware County attempted the challenge ‘Go-getter’ Hayden stole all the candies after ICU nurse mom Lisa left the room Her sister started crying in footage shot at the family of six’s […]