Messaging app Telegram calls it an "attack on democracy," Google says it "seriously threatens free speech" -- but what exactly is in Brazil's controversial measure to regulate disinformation online?. - Telegram sent a message Tuesday to its more than 40 million users in Brazil warning that Congress "is about to pass a law that will end free speech" and "give the government censorship powers."
New York prosecutors will charge a US Marine -- who allegedly caused the chokehold death of a homeless man on the city subway -- with manslaughter, a spokesman said Thursday.. The video showed Neely, 30, on the ground of a subway train as another man, reportedly 24-year-old US Marine Penny, held him around the neck.
Health personnel in protective suits are going door to door in Peru, fumigating homes to eradicate mosquitos spreading the dengue-causing virus that has already killed 79 people in the country this year.. During a recent intervention, residents stood outside on the street observing as health workers in protective suits and masks sprayed chemicals in and around their wood and raw brick homes.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a California animal cruelty law that bans the sale in America's most-populous state of pork from pigs raised in confined conditions.. Californians passed an animal welfare measure, Proposition 12, in a referendum in 2018 that bans the sale of pork from pigs raised in overly confined pens.
The world's biggest chocolate makers are failing on promises to improve pay for farmers in major cocoa producer Ghana despite strong profits, charity Oxfam said in a report on Thursday.. It told AFP that it strives also to help improve incomes for farmers in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer of cocoa.
The Czech government presented an extensive tax and pension reform on Thursday designed to curb soaring public debt due to the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine.. The government will cut spending in the government sector, curb subsidies, and raise the real estate tax and corporate income taxes from 2024.
France's National Assembly lower house passed a hard-fought bill early Thursday that would require town halls to fly both the French and European flags, as most already do.. MPs also passed amendments requiring town halls to hang the portrait of the current president -- as most already do -- and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which harks back to the French Revolution.
A "perfect storm" of overlapping crises forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, sending the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday.. NRC chief Jan Egeland described the overlapping crises spurring ever more displacement around the world as a "perfect storm".
Iranian captain Hassan Rostam has braved the Strait of Hormuz aboard his lenj for four decades, but now watches with despair as the wooden ships are being replaced by cheaper, faster boats.. But the island of Qeshm off Bandar Abbas is also home to the much older tradition of building wooden boats, around 30 of which were resting at low tide in the coastal village of Guran.
France's vaunted gastronomy will be put to the ultimate test when organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics have to feed 15,000 athletes.. It is a "huge logistical challenge", says Philipp Wuerz, project manager for catering, cleaning and waste on the Paris 2024 organising committee.
