Brazil's new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva held his first cabinet meeting Friday, getting down to the business of "rebuilding" and "reunifying" the country after his divisive election battle with far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.. - Northeastern connection - Lula, who won the October election thanks to overwhelming support in Brazil's impoverished northeast, has named four former governors from the region to his cabinet.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva held his first cabinet meeting Friday, vowing to work with Congress and run a government of traditional technocrats to "rebuild" Brazil after the "authoritarianism" of predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.. Lula vowed to fight to "rebuild the country" and protect the Amazon rainforest after four years under far-right Bolsonaro's "authoritarian government," which he accused of undermining democracy and blamed for Brazil's massive Covid-19 death toll, currently almost 700,000.
The latest revelations by Prince Harry have shone a glaring light on his fractured relationship with his elder brother William, with whom he was once close.. - 'Arch-nemesis' - The latest claims include that family members briefed against him, and William warned him to "slow down" his relationship with Meghan.
Ten soldiers and 19 criminal suspects died in a massive operation to arrest a son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican government said Friday, with a dramatic shootout damaging three planes and sowing terror at a local airport.. El Chapo is serving a life sentence in the United States for trafficking hundreds of tons of drugs into the country over the course of 25 years.
French prosecutors are investigating a cartoonist after a complaint he was distributing child pornography through his sexually explicit work.. These cartoons "show children represented in sexually explicit scenes that undoubtedly have a pornographic character," said one of the complaints.
Prince Harry's decision to call his autobiography "Spare" is a pointed reference to the brutal reality of a life defined by royal hierarchy -- an issue that has often plunged the family into crisis.. Yet his unburdening since about his unhappy life as a "spare" has drained support in a UK currently struggling with a myriad of social and economic problems.
France experienced its hottest average temperature and lowest levels of rainfall on record in 2022, the national weather office said on Friday.. The country also suffered a "record rainfall deficit" of 25 percent below the long-term average, the lowest since 1989, the weather office added.
Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" was on Friday mauled by British media and commentators who called it "vengeful" and "calculated", as Buckingham Palace kept silent on the widely leaked contents.. But there was no official palace comment.
A brief ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin but dismissed by Ukraine as an empty gesture was due to have taken effect on Friday in what would be the first full pause since Moscow's invasion in February 2022.. Since the invasion began on February 24 last year, Russia has occupied parts of eastern and southern Ukraine, but Kyiv has reclaimed swathes of its territory and this week claimed a New Year's strike that killed scores of Moscow's troops.
Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under an unprecedented Covid wave -- an illustration of the stark disparities in the country's healthcare system.. In one of the world's most unequal economies, China's centralised healthcare system drives money and resources towards urban hospitals at the expense of rural ones, a disparity that has become all the more intense as cases surge.
