Faced with threats of 50 percent tariffs and demands to end a criminal case, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said in an interview that he wouldn’t take orders from President Trump.
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- Angry young voters gathered in Manila on Tuesday to protest Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the former dictator, who clinched a landslide victory this week in one of the most divisive presidential elections in modern Philippine history.
- Judge Alexandre de Moraes, a member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, has used the court’s power to counter the antidemocratic stances of President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters.
- Jair Bolsonaro has consistently claimed Brazil's electronic voting system is rife with fraud. Millions of his supporters have lost faith in their nation’s elections. Many claim they are prepared to take to the streets at his command.
- Breaking News: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was wounded at a rally after at least one unidentified man opened fire on his convoy, in what aides have called a targeted attack.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Russia as his country faced a wide-scale military attack. He spoke as one of his advisers announced that more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers had died and dozens were wounded. nyti.ms/3IkmG85
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, already looking unusually embattled amid an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus cases, has been hit by a roiling corruption scandal that some say has a fin de siècle aura about it nyti.ms/3uYyjei
- Israel said Palestinian militants had misfired projectiles, but an analysis of photos and videos of Friday’s strikes shows that some of the munitions were likely fired by Israeli forces.
- Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was wounded at a rally on Thursday after at least one unidentified man opened fire on his convoy, in what his aides called a targeted attack. nyti.ms/3sXfV6a
00:00 - Madrid has become the first major European city to reverse a ban on high-emissions vehicles and allow cars unfettered access to an area that was placed out of bounds for many less than a year ago
- Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the ousted dictator, edged closer to a triumph in the presidential election in the Philippines on Monday as early vote counting put him in a commanding lead over Leni Robredo, his closest rival.
- Francia Márquez, una mujer de 40 años que trabajó como empleada doméstica, ahora es la principal contendiente a la vicepresidencia de Colombia.
- Germany is scrambling to save energy and reduce its dependence on Russian supplies. But one thing the country won’t do, apparently, is put a speed limit on its fabled autobahns.
- Tens of thousands of outraged women in Poland converged in the capital to denounce the high-court's ruling banning abortions. The protests capped a week of the biggest demonstrations in Poland since the fall of communism in 1989. nyti.ms/2HSXhYH
