Month: December 2019

Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called climate activist Greta Thunberg a “pirralha,” which means “little brat” in Portuguese on Tuesday. Two days prior, Thunberg had spoken out against the killing of indigenous Brazilian people in the Amazon. After Bolsonaro’s insult, Thunberg changed her Twitter bio to read simply: “pirralha.” Click Here: liverpool mens…

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro called Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg a “brat” on Tuesday after she criticized mounting violence against indigenous people in which two Amazon tribesmen were shot dead three days ago. “Greta said the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon (forest). How can the media give…

Key point: In an actual war, both Washington and Beijing would employ their conventional missile arsenals to sink each other’s ships. The Chinese military lobbed anti-ship ballistic missiles into the South China Sea in tests in early July 2019. The missile trials underscored Beijing’s increasing militarization of resource-rich waters on which several countries have conflicting claims.…

One of four Indian men on death row over the infamous 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder appealed against his sentence on Tuesday citing pollution. Akshay Kumar Singh was one of a group of men who gang-raped a 23-year-old woman on a bus in India’s capital late at night in December seven years ago. Her case…

Homelessness has hit the headlines again. There has been a steep growth in the number of homeless children in Britain – at least 135,000, according to the charity Shelter, the highest in 12 years, will be homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas. There are record numbers of rough sleepers in some cities, including…

More cities are punishing homeless people for sleeping in public, a new report shows, amid an increase in Americans living on the streets.  Arresting or ticketing people who have nowhere else to go doesn’t help them find permanent housing, according to the National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty report. Instead, policies criminalizing homelessness can make it…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida announced Tuesday that he will not seek another term, saying he never meant to spend more than eight years in Congress. Democrats seized upon the news as a sign of weakening morale among the GOP. Yoho, who aligned himself with the Tea Party faction of…

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) confirmed on Tuesday that he will not seek reelection, becoming the latest in an expanding list of elected Republican officials to announce their retirement from Congress. Yoho is the 23rd Republican to say he will vacate his seat by the end of 2020, according to a tally by The Washington Post that includes…

Representative Ted Yoho of Florida announced Tuesday that he will step down after completing his fourth term, joining the wave of House Republicans who have opted against running for reelection in 2020. Yoho had promised to serve no more than four terms in Congress. “I ran on a pledge to serve four terms — eight…

(Bloomberg Opinion) — That viral video of the leaders of Canada, France and the U.K. laughing about their U.S. counterpart at last week’s NATO summit was vivid yet anecdotal evidence of what the rest of the world thinks of President Donald Trump. Now comes some hard data showing America’s declining global reputation. Not only is…