Immersed in a new political crisis aggravated by the differences in the confrontation of the coronavirus pandemic, the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, won a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday (18) and won 24 hours of breathing. If he had lost, he would have been forced to resign. On Tuesday, … Read more
Sao Paulo Brazil will be represented in the possession of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. At least in the voice of Anitta, 27. The song “Make It Hot”, in which she collaborated with the Major Lazer trio, is on the official song list for the event, scheduled for Wednesday (20). … Read more
A runner-up in Portuguese presidency polls, former MEP Ana Gomes, 66, has said she will not be running for a possible new term for Jair Bolsonaro. A career diplomat with decades of experience in international negotiations, Ana Gomes gained notoriety in her country thanks to her active role in the negotiations for the independence of … Read more
A recent seminar (Regional Responses to the Crisis in Latin America) addressed the sustained increase in strategies to reduce civic spaces in various countries in the region and the growing pressure on citizens and their rights. Civic space has shrunk in 22 of the region’s 32 countries, according to the Civicus 2020 report, after being … Read more
General Nikolai T. Antoshkin, commander of a dangerous helicopter firefighting mission in which he and other pilots were exposed to radiation to contain the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, died on Sunday (17). He was 78 years old. The general died of a “difficult illness,” according to a statement from the Speaker of the Russian Parliament, in … Read more
As part of the investigations into hundreds of people who invaded and vandalized the United States Congress, Samuel Camargo, 26, has been indicted by the FBI (American Federal Police) for having been implicated in acts of insurgency initiated by Donald Trump. Son of Brazilians, Camargo was born in Boston, Massachusetts and now lives in Fort … Read more
Boris Johnson already has a lifeline to seize to ride the wave of bad news in the UK: the UK vaccination program has entered this second (18) phase in its second phase. Nearly 5 million over 70 years and 1 million patients will be invited to participate in the “race against death”, the nickname given … Read more
Opposition leader Alexei Navalni faces 3.5 years in prison after being detained on his return to Russia on Sunday, 150 days after leaving the country in a coma due to poisoning he attributes to Vladimir’s government Putin. Defiantly, he called for street protests against the Kremlin in a video posted to his YouTube channel before … Read more
Democracy was in a coma even before the election of Donald Trump, and power will once again be “for the people and for the people” only under new political structures, explains political scientist Hélène Landemore, professor at the University of Yale. She defends assemblies of non-politicians chosen by lot, such as the one that decided … Read more
The vast majority of information sent by more than 140,000 people to the FBI to identify participants in the attack on the United States Congress comes from friends and family of the invaders, according to the US Department of Justice. Find out more (01/18/2021 – 08:46 am)