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Inside the Philippines’ $2-billion flood-control scandal
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/12/2025
» Senator Francis Pangilinan leaned into his microphone and fired off numbers in pesos: 50 million? 10 million? 100 million? “You withdrew this in cash?”
Prison looms for Brazil's Bolsonaro after court rejects his appeal
AFP, Published on 15/11/2025
» BRASíLIA — Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options to avoid prison, after judges on Friday rejected his appeal against a 27-year sentence for a botched coup bid.
Typhoon flooding kills 5, strands thousands in Philippines
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» CEBU — At least five people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as rains driven by Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded swathes of the central Philippines on Tuesday.
SpaceX Starship destroyed in third straight fiery test setback
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/05/2025
» TEXAS — SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket suffered a leak, tumbled out of control in space and disintegrated as it hurtled back to Earth during a test flight on Tuesday, in a third setback in a row for the Elon Musk-led company.
Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa dies in Peru
AFP, Published on 14/04/2025
» LIMA — Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died Sunday at the age of 89 in the Peruvian capital, his family announced on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
SpaceX Starship launch ends with dramatic water landing
New York Times, Published on 20/11/2024
» BROWNSVILLE — The late-afternoon launch brought United States President-elect Donald Trump to the company's South Texas launch site along the Gulf of Mexico for a show of solidarity with Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and the world's richest man, who helped catapult the former president back to the White House.
Comeback king Lula gets delayed honeymoon in Brazil
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Economic growth is up, Amazon deforestation is down and he's scored some key wins in Congress: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva finally appears to be getting a delayed honeymoon in his third-term comeback.
'Against their nature': When Brazil banned women from football
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» SAO PAULO - Dilma Mendes does not remember how many times she was arrested as a child. Her crime? Playing football in Brazil.
Bolsonaro faces ban as Brazil trial opens
AFP, Published on 22/06/2023
» BRASILIA: Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro faces an eight-year ban on running for office as Brazil's top electoral court began trying the far-right leader on Thursday over his unproven allegations against the voting system during last year's elections.
Uncertainty as Covid-era US border rules expire
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» EL PASO (UNITED STATES) - Rules that have allowed US border guards to summarily expel hundreds of thousands of would-be asylum seekers over the last three years expired early Friday, setting up an uncertain future for migrants and inflaming America's always-churning immigration debate.