X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws
Millions of users shut out and 500,000 switch to rival platform Bluesky as providers enact supreme court ban One of the world’s most popular social...
Month : August 2024
Pacific Islands Forum communique taken down after Chinese envoy calls Taiwan reference ‘unacceptable’
‘Visibly angry’ Qian Bo demands correction of Taiwan’s ‘development partner’ label despite its use for more than three decades Get our breaking news email, free...
Last-minute Taiwan drama and a policing plan: five things we learned at the Pacific Islands Forum
China’s representative demanded the scrapping of language about Taiwan in the final communique; Pacific countries will get a new multinational police unit Pacific leaders gathered...
Severe turbulence injures seven people on United Airlines flight from Cancun
Rough weather forces flight from Mexico to Chicago to make emergency landing in Memphis Severe turbulence caused injuries to seven people on a United Airlines...
Elon Musk’s X could face ban in Brazil after failure to appoint legal representative
Platform failed to meet court-imposed deadline in ongoing case over accounts allegedly spreading disinformation The social media platform X faces the prospect of a ban...
Former Red Brigades member arrested in Argentina after four decades on run
Leonardo Bertulazzi, 65, wanted in Italy for kidnapping and other crimes allegedly committed as part of far-left group Police in Argentina have arrested a former...
Stray bullets and closed schools: Rio’s kids suffer as police crack down on gangs
Thousands of schoolchildren in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas miss classes and risk violence as Brazil’s police battle drug gangs Textbooks and marker pens are not...
‘No democratic legitimacy’: EU rejects Maduro’s Venezuela election win claim
EU foreign policy head says members have given up hope of seeing voting tallies in disputed presidential election The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell,...
Canada’s 2023 wildfires released more greenhouse gases than most countries
Had fires been ranked alongside countries they would have been world’s fourth-largest emitter, study finds Wildfires that swept Canada’s woodlands last year released more greenhouse...
Xi Jinping holds surprise meeting with senior Biden aide in Beijing
Chinese leader speaks with Jake Sullivan who was making his first visit to Beijing as US national security adviser Xi Jinping has spoken with the...
