Former Brazilian president Jair Boslonaro spoke to police for several hours Tuesday as part of an investigation into the alleged forgery of Covid-19 vaccination certificates for himself and his inner circle.. In his "approximately three hours" of testimony to police, the far-right, vaccine-skeptical former president denied involvement in the alleged plot, Bolsonaro advisor Fabio Wajngarten said on Twitter.
Inter Milan reached their first Champions League final for 13 years as Lautaro Martinez's sole goal of the match gave them a 3-0 aggregate win against AC Milan on Tuesday.. The forward on loan from Chelsea immediately caused problems in the Milan defence and created Martinez's goal to guarantee their place in their first Champions League final since the last time they won European club football's biggest prize under Jose Mourinho in 2010.
British former prime minister Liz Truss, on a visit to Taiwan Wednesday, will set up a full-throated clash with both China and her successor Rishi Sunak in demanding the West get tough with Beijing.. In a speech in Taipei, Truss is due to call for Sunak to make good on his Conservative leadership campaign pledge last year to designate China as a strategic "threat".
Ukraine's war against invading Russian forces is providing lessons for Taiwan, showing how a smaller military can successfully defend against a larger one, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.. "We've learned a number of important lessons from Ukraine's... war with Russia," Austin told a Senate hearing when asked about strategies to defend Taiwan against potential military action by China.
An intense rescue effort was underway Tuesday to find six passengers, including four children, who have disappeared since the small plane they were traveling in crashed in the Amazon, Colombia's aviation authority said.. The airplane disappeared from radars on May 1 during a journey over the Amazon rainforest in the southern Caqueta department, the Civil Aviation authority said in a statement.
Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso declared his "total, evident and unquestionable innocence" as his impeachment trial over corruption allegations began in parliament on Tuesday.. Rather, all there is is information that proves my total, evident and unquestionable innocence," Lasso told the unicameral legislature.
The United States on Tuesday denounced Russia's arrest of a former employee of a US consulate, who risks prison time for what Washington said were routine activities.. Even before the war, the United States was at loggerheads with Russia over rules on staffing of its embassy, which Washington said had been reduced to a skeleton crew. sct/nro/ec
Three people died during clashes between Senegalese police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, the authorities said on Tuesday, amid flaring tensions triggered by a legal showdown.. "If Ousmane Sonko is not a candidate, let (President) Macky Sall know there will be no elections," one demonstrator in Ziguinchor with his face covered told AFP. "We will stay to defend our leader."
Michael Douglas received an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.. Douglas described it as "an incredible honour", adding: "This means so much to me because there are hundreds of festivals around the world but there's only one Cannes."
A relative of French first lady Brigitte Macron has been beaten up outside her family's chocolate shop in an apparent politically motivated assault that sparked widespread condemnation on Tuesday.. "The shop is not involved in politics," Jean-Alexandre Trogneux, the beaten man's father, told the Courrier Picard local newspaper on Tuesday.
