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Brazil’s Supreme Court has released the assets of Elon Musk’s satellite communications company Starlink and social platform X after 18.35 million reais, approximately $3.3 million, were transferred to state coffers. According to a press release on Friday, Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered that Starlink and X’s bank accounts and assets be unfrozen after […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas filled a Rio de Janeiro park Thursday as Brazil’s Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the return of a sacred cloak that disappeared some 380 years ago. The artifact, made from scarlet ibis feathers, came from northeastern Brazil and was located in Copenhagen until the

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk on Friday after criticism came from Warsaw over Germany’s plan to introduce further border controls. The two leaders agreed in a telephone conversation that the challenges posed by illegal migration and human trafficking can only be tackled together and that close cooperation between European

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the Russian counterattack in the southwestern region of Kursk has made little progress. “They wanted to make a quick breakthrough there. (…) We have not seen any serious success so far,” Zelensky said in Kiev. Zelensky said Moscow plans to deploy up to 70,000 troops to the

The news Russia’s central bank tightened its monetary policy on Friday, raising its key interest rate to 19% as Moscow’s war in Ukraine weighs on inflation. The bank warned it could raise rates further at its next meeting in October, in a bid to bring inflation down from 9.1% to its target of 4% in

A judge has ruled that a speeding driver who hit a jogger in south-west London will be jailed for five years if he ever returns to the UK. Rashid Ali, 30, from Slough, was driving twice the speed limit of 20 mph (32 km/h) when he hit 29-year-old Jack Patrick Ryan near Battersea Bridge in

(Bloomberg) — The European Union plans to hold a vote on Sept. 25 on imposing final tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China, according to insiders. Most read from Bloomberg The vote would clear the way for the tasks to take effect from November unless a qualified majority — 15 member states representing 65% of

Bed Bath & Beyond is opening stores again, but this time in Mexico. The new stores are part of a new global licensing program, according to Beyond Inc., the home retailer’s parent company. “Negotiations are underway for stores in other key markets around the world,” Beyond said of store plans for more stores in the

ON BOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis called sexual abuse “diabolical” Friday as he weighed in on the latest revelations of sexual abuse against a legendary French priest, Abbe Pierre, who devoted his life to the advocacy of the homeless. Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007, was one of France’s most beloved public