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Comment on this story Comment SAO PAULO — The office of Brazil’s vice president says he has become acting president, an indication that President Jair Bolsonaro has left the country and will break tradition by skipping the inauguration Sunday of his political nemesis, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The press office of Bolsonaro’s vice president, […]

Comment on this story Comment Andrew Tate — the former kickboxing champion, internet personality and self-described misogynist — has been detained in Romania along with his brother, Tristan, and charged with human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. A Romanian anti-organized-crime unit gained authorization from a judge to hold the Tates and two Romanian […]

Comment on this story Comment SÃO PAULO — Two days before leaving office, ending a tumultuous four years as the race-baiting, Amazon-developing, coronavirus-downplaying, vaccine-skeptical leader of Latin America’s largest country, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remained defiant in a teary farewell address on Friday, defending his record and saying the election that led to his ouster […]

Comment on this story Comment BERLIN — As Ralf Schreiber’s car screeched to a halt on a dimly lit road in the suburbs of Berlin this week, two men were waiting for him. Carefully, they heaved a box of firework rockets into his trunk. “I’m not quite sure what I bought,” said Schreiber, 57, examining […]

Comment on this story Comment VATICAN CITY — As Pope Emeritus Benedict’s health falters, with Pope Francis asking for prayers, the relationship between Germany and its most famous modern Catholic figure has perhaps never been more fraught. In Germany, the pace of secularization, a force Benedict XVI spent decades warning about, has been dramatic. Abuse […]

Comment on this story Comment ROME — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was in stable condition Friday after suffering a decline in his health and participated in a private Mass in his room, the Vatican said, as the faithful in Rome prepared to honor “this last stretch of his pilgrimage.” The Vatican provided a new medical […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students was arrested in eastern Pennsylvania, a law enforcement official said Friday. Arrest paperwork filed by Pennsylvania State Police in Monroe County Court said Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation based on an active […]

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government operating through the end of the federal budget year in September 2023, and provide tens of billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine for its fight against the Russian military. Biden had until late Friday to sign […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed Friday to deepen their bilateral cooperation against the backdrop of Moscow’s 10-month war in Ukraine, which weathered another night of drone and rocket attacks following a large-scale missile bombardment. Putin and Xi made no direct mention of Ukraine in their opening remarks by videoconference, which […]

The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on Thursday, opening up what is expected to be one of the country’s most lucrative markets for cannabis — underscored by the dozens of unauthorized shops that have operated in the open for years. The widely anticipated opening of the […]