DW » Brazil’s top court ruled that he abused his power ahead of last year’s elections. Judges found that Bolsonaro had used official government channels to boost his own campaign and spread unfounded doubts about Brazil’s electronic voting system.
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That does not include your side order of a dozen real Trump University diplomas?
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Prigozhin, a one-time confidant of President Vladimir Putin, called for retaliation after claiming that the Russian military killed “an enormous amount” of his troops in Friday’s strikes on Wagner camps. The military denied these strikes had occurred, and there was no independent evidence to back up his claim.
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Sensitive, a little. Maybe?
Canada’s parliament on Thursday passed Bill C-18, the Online News Act. The new law compels the social media companies – such as Facebook – to negotiate commercial deals with news outlets and pay for news content. So why does this behemoth not want to pay?
Meta is worth US$720 Billion.
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Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, is making good on its threat to block news sharing on both platforms across Canada in response to Ottawa’s online news bill, which became law late Thursday.
“Today, we are confirming that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada prior to the Online News Act (Bill C-18) taking effect,” a blog post from the web giant notes.
A US federal judge ruled that Calgary-based Enbridge, a natural gas utility, must pay a Wisconsin-based Indigenous group some $5.1 million and move part of an oil pipeline by 2026 that impinges on the group’s land.
The Competition Bureau is continuing it’s investigation into some of Canada’s other food giants » Metro, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, Giant Tiger, and Maple Leaf Foods.
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Yeap. And not just in the US.
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The Guardian » Leshie Chandrapala is one of the hundreds of members of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group who have expressed their anger and frustration over a newly released video appearing to show a Christmas party at the Conservative party headquarters during Covid restrictions in 2020. Leshie told the Guardian: ‘we are living a nightmare’ and said she felt a ‘physical sickness’ after watching the video for the first time. Her father, Ranjith Chanrapala, 64, was a bus driver and died from the virus in May 2020. The video appears to show staff members drinking alcohol and dancing on 14 December 2020 at a gathering held by the campaign team of the unsuccessful London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who has since been given a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list. 232 people lost their lives to the pandemic that day
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Rolling Stone » Donald Trump’s former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, thinks that the ex-president should not be in charge of the country’s most closely-held information, considering he was storing classified documents at his resort, as alleged in a federal indictment filed earlier this month.
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Boris Johnson’s actions show he is “dangerous” because of his persistence in challenging “everything that’s supposed to protect us against politicians”, the former Conservative MP told James O’Brien.