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SAO PAULO – Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay last month at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest....

In rare admission, commander of Indonesian military in the province says horrific footage is a ‘violation of the law’, and confirms 13 personnel have been detained...

Jerusalem raises offer for return of 40 hostages but demands veto rights over identities of prisoners to be released from Israeli jails; willingness to accommodate daily return of thousands of Palestinians to northern Gaza; ‘We’re waiting for Hamas’ response,’ senior official says...

Satellite images have been released showing the aftermath of a missile strike claimed by Ukraine’s military on a communications hub in the city of Sevastopol, in annexed Crimea, which is used by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s prized Black Sea Fleet....

European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, in the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets that took effect earlier this month....

Poland says Russian missile targeting Ukraine’s Lviv region violated its airspace while Kyiv suffers third pre-dawn attack in four days...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests....

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A pro-western career diplomat defeated a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the first round of the presidential election Sunday to set up a runoff between the two to decide who will succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female president....

Document discovered by National Archives shows claim made after the war by recaptured RAF officer, but historians are sceptical...

Lemmy.world has had a “Business” community for a while now, but it’s been a little sleepy....

Almost a year since conflict reignited in Sudan, its terrified people are crossing borders to Chad and beyond. An increasing number are trying to reach Europe as food supplies dwindle in the refugee camps and the eyes of the world look elsewhere...

World water development report warns that access is major source of conflict between countries...

The railway Russia is constructing in the occupied territories of Ukraine, which leads to Crimea, is “a serious challenge” and “an important target” for Kyiv, Andrii Yusov, a spokesperson of Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), said on March 21....

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) found that 15 percent of the components of every F-35 that Israel uses in its war on Gaza is made by firms within the British arms industry, which is estimated to have brought in at least £336 million since 2016.

Jones has been a member of the party for 24 years, but in an open letter published in The Guardian, the columnist announced he would be leaving, underlining party leader Keir Starmer’s pro-Israel stance....

The Vietnamese Communist Party has accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, the government said on Wednesday, in a sign of political turmoil that could hurt foreign investors’ confidence in the country....

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further....