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Brazilian police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia. The far-right politician faces multiple criminal investigations. Brazilian police would not have been able to arrest him while he was staying at a foreign embassy. Bolsonaro has good relations with Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, who leads the right-wing nationalist Fidesz party. Bolsonaro called Orban his “brother” druing a 2022 visit to Hungary. What do we know about the investigation? The probe comes after a report from The New York Times showed security footage from within the Hungarian embassy in…

A massive portion of the steel arched Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning after a cargo ship struck it, state authorities reported.  “Key Bridge collapse due to ship strike. Active scene,” Maryland Transportation Authority said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Transport authorities added that traffic was being detoured on the I-695 highway that crosses the bridge.  The 1.6-mile (2.57 kilometer) bridge, which was completed in 1977, spans the Patapsco River in southern Baltimore on the US east coast.  Videos shared on social media showed multiple vehicles falling into the river after the collision. …

A major bridge has collapsed in the US city of Baltimore after it was hit by a cargo ship.Footage shows a large section of the 1.6 mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge falling into the water following the collision at around 1.30am local time. Baltimore’s fire service said emergency teams are searching for at least seven people believed to have fallen into the water.Baltimore bridge latest: Workers ‘possibly in the water’Chief Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore City Fire Department, said the main focus right now is “trying to rescue and recover these people”. Image: Pic: Streamtime Live He…

Moscow’s Basmanny district court on Monday ordered the pre-trial detention for two months of all four suspects in Friday’s deadly concert hall attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to punish those behind the attack at the Crocus City Hall, in which the death toll has now risen to at least 137. What happened in the courtroom? The four main suspects between the ages of 19 and 32, and identified in Russian media as Tajik nationals, were charged with committing a deadly group terrorist attack. They face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.  The suspects began to appear in court shortly…

Turn into Syria Street, a wide boulevard in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, and you’ll find yourself driving past buildings pockmarked with bullet holes and rubbish that has sat uncollected for weeks. But you’ll also pass items of furniture neatly set out and arranged for sale, practically inviting you to take a seat right there on the street as if in an open-air living room. The residents here all know each other. Many of them grew up in the area and have lived here all their lives. In the early 1900s, goods were transported north from Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, along this bustling…

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo on Monday for talks on the increasingly fraught humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Baerbock has urged both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to make concessions in ongoing negotiations in Qatar. After Cairo, Baerbock was scheduled to fly on to Israel for her sixth visit to the country since the Hamas-led October 7 terror attacks. A meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has been scheduled for Tuesday. Germany’s foreign minister in Egypt for Gaza talksTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a…

Dani Alves has paid €1m in bail to be released from prison while appealing a rape conviction, a Spanish court has said.The former Barcelona footballer paid the £860,000 sum and handed over his Brazilian and Spanish passports after prosecutors had argued he was a flight risk. Last month, Alves was found guilty of raping a woman in a nightclub in December 2022 and sentenced to four and a half years in prison.Alves denied wrongdoing during the trial, having said: “I am not that kind of man.”The 40-year-old has spent the last 14 months in the Brians II prison located 45…

On the evening of Friday March 22, at around 8 p.m. local time, the Moscow concert venue Crocus City Hall became the scene of a bloody attack — the exact background of which is still the subject of speculation. At least 137 people were killed in the massacre, while many others are in critical condition. They were awaiting a concert by the Russian rock band Picnic, which was due to start at 9 p.m.  ‘Wash yourself with your own blood’  Russia has been in a state of shock ever since. While the whole world is expressing its sympathy, rumors and false information are making the rounds. Four Tajik suspects…

After an agonizing two weeks, over 100 kidnapped schoolchildren who were rescued in northern Nigeria on Sunday have been reunited with their families.  The mass kidnapping of 287 students in Kuriga, in the state of Kaduna, earlier this month was the first mass abduction in the West African country since 2021. The reported numbers for mass abductions in Nigeria are often lowered after people who went missing while fleeing attacks return home. Authorities said 137 students — 76 girls and 61 boys — had been rescued in the neighboring state of Zamfara. “In the early hours of March 24, 2024, the military working with local…

Pakistan has been in a state of grave economic turmoil in recent years. Political instability, corruption, mismanagement, the COVID-19 pandemic, a global energy crisis, and climate change-induced natural disasters have all taken a heavy toll on the economy. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s newly formed government is seeking another bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to tackle the acute balance-of-payments crisis. “We couldn’t survive without yet another IMF program,” Sharif told a meeting in Islamabad last week that was broadcast live. His comments came a day after the IMF agreed a provisional or staff-level agreement with Islamabad which, if approved by its…